<p>Sounds like a great idea, I can see how it being in core would be required too, as normal users aren't going to go out of their way to install a plugin they think they don't need. Is this the place to be chatting about such a feature? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 9 Dec 2010 20:21, "Simon Prosser" <<a href="mailto:pross@pross.org.uk">pross@pross.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Yea i know that, im just thinking what if someone downloaded one of<br>
> these themes, then decided to edit it and make it their theme..<br>> I wanted theme-check to tell them that they were using an infected theme.<br>> <br>> On 9 December 2010 20:15, Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Simon Prosser <<a href="mailto:pross@pross.org.uk">pross@pross.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>>>> If you have not been following twitter, check out<br>>>> <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/feckitorg/status/12908832795664385">http://twitter.com/#!/feckitorg/status/12908832795664385</a><br>
>>><br>>>> Otto has documented the worm in depth here<br>>>> <a href="http://ottopress.com/2010/anatomy-of-a-theme-malware/">http://ottopress.com/2010/anatomy-of-a-theme-malware/</a><br>>>><br>
>>> Themecheck dev version now has a 'worm check'<br>>>> WARNING: Worm activity detected!<br>>><br>>> The malware check would have already detected this too, BTW. Malware<br>>> authors probably aren't concerned with working around our checks. They<br>
>> can just create sites of their own, SEO the crap out of them, steal a<br>>> bunch of free themes, and inject their code into them.<br>>><br>>> -Otto<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>
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