Comments on: The WordPress boo-boo turned out to be a worm https://retrohelix.com/2012/09/the-wordpress-boo-boo-turned-out-to-be-a-worm/ Personal blog about whatever I find amusing. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:11:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: retrohelix https://retrohelix.com/2012/09/the-wordpress-boo-boo-turned-out-to-be-a-worm/comment-page-1/#comment-8402 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:11:49 +0000 https://retrohelix.com/en/?p=15531#comment-8402 In reply to abdussamad.

That’s exactly what it does, it infects every theme’s function’s file, I just don’t know what exactly is the point of this worm though.

]]> By: abdussamad https://retrohelix.com/2012/09/the-wordpress-boo-boo-turned-out-to-be-a-worm/comment-page-1/#comment-8388 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:46:14 +0000 https://retrohelix.com/en/?p=15531#comment-8388 In reply to retrohelix.

Yeah I intended to try it out in a virtual machine because the code looked suspicious. From what I read, it looked like it was going through all the files in the themes directory and writing something into them.

]]> By: retrohelix https://retrohelix.com/2012/09/the-wordpress-boo-boo-turned-out-to-be-a-worm/comment-page-1/#comment-8379 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:09:18 +0000 https://retrohelix.com/en/?p=15531#comment-8379 In reply to abdussamad.

I’m glad you found out about this before activating the theme, you saved yourself a lot of trouble.

]]> By: abdussamad https://retrohelix.com/2012/09/the-wordpress-boo-boo-turned-out-to-be-a-worm/comment-page-1/#comment-8359 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:38:57 +0000 https://retrohelix.com/en/?p=15531#comment-8359 Thank you for posting this. I downloaded a free theme and found similar suspicious code in it. I googled the function name and ended up here. Good thing I never activated the theme!

]]> By: OOPS! I think I made a boo-boo https://retrohelix.com/2012/09/the-wordpress-boo-boo-turned-out-to-be-a-worm/comment-page-1/#comment-7888 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:37:37 +0000 https://retrohelix.com/en/?p=15531#comment-7888 […] disregard this post, the error was caused by a worm that infected every theme I had installed, so read this post to find out what I did to get rid of […]

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