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Does Your Blog Spread Virus?

Submitted by Hamdani Amin on Sunday, 21 September 20082 Comments

For most of us,  we love to download beautiful theme and use is a per download.  That including me.  Streamxy had just got a new face lit less than 48 hours ago.  Streamxy currently using free theme, Guzel with slight modification.  Thank to Ahmed at CustomThemeDesign who design the theme and make it freely available to download.

Today I want to talk about how your can spread a virus?

Your could be so much depend on your blog.  As I mentioned earlier, I like to download beatiful theme and the site currently use one.  I also like to modifying theme particular to use as a CMS.  However the design community had been infected by less ethical designers.

Vladimir had bought this to my attention a few week ago by pointing me to his blogs.  He also thought me how to check my blog WordPress theme againts any possible virus where he also pointed out to me what wordpress plugin I can used to scan for malicious code.

What can you do to protect your blog ?

Actually I received many suggestion.

Lynette Chandler, at TechBasedMarketing.com talk about this issue at her blog.  She suggest one plugin that will help to determine the validity of theme that we use.

The plugin is a great way to quickly scan any theme you use, but if you find something and don’t know what to do about it. Get help from someone who can give you more concrete answers.

Brajeshwar had found out recently that his blog was was compromise and he have to re-install back his wordpress.  He suggest a few preventive measure you can take:

  1. Take care that none of your folders are public-writa-able
  2. Restrict access to “wp-admin” with .htaccess
  3. Prevent comment spam by denying access to no-referrer requests
  4. Separate sub-domain for media files (images, audio, video)
  5. Backup DB daily or Weekly
  6. Theme
  7. Keepass

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Brajeshwar also had pointed out a list of malware websitePlease don’t go to this website.  Tell and remind others about this websites.

So Before Anything Happen, Secure Your Blog

Many times we heard about a repetitive suggestion - backup you database and all your .  How frequent and how many times that will depend on us.  I’m too lack of this practice  which I need to improve.  I feel reluctant to do it because when I sign-up for my web hosting account, one of the value added services was regular back-up of my account.

On focusing the issue brought by this post, may be you can used both  Vladimir and Lynette suggestion with some additional WordPpress plugins.

I think “A Preventive Action Plan” for your blog will be my final suggestion.   Maybe you can suggest another preventive measure for your blog?

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  • Phil said:

    Those are some excellent suggestions and pointers. I will have to get to work on implementing them. Thanks

  • Hamdani Amin (author) said:

    Phil, thank for the compliment. Its’ a bit disturbing as WordPress become popular, the unethical designer use this as a platform to attack unsuspecting blog.

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