[theme-reviewers] check for worms

[Darren]

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?
On 9 Dec 2010 20:21, "Simon Prosser" <pross at pross.org.uk> wrote:
> Yea i know that, im just thinking what if someone downloaded one of
> these themes, then decided to edit it and make it their theme..
> I wanted theme-check to tell them that they were using an infected theme.
>
> On 9 December 2010 20:15, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Simon Prosser <pross at pross.org.uk> wrote:
>>> If you have not been following twitter, check out
>>> http://twitter.com/#!/feckitorg/status/12908832795664385
>>>
>>> Otto has documented the worm in depth here
>>> http://ottopress.com/2010/anatomy-of-a-theme-malware/
>>>
>>> Themecheck dev version now has a 'worm check'
>>> WARNING: Worm activity detected!
>>
>> The malware check would have already detected this too, BTW. Malware
>> authors probably aren't concerned with working around our checks. They
>> can just create sites of their own, SEO the crap out of them, steal a
>> bunch of free themes, and inject their code into them.
>>
>> -Otto
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