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 wordpress 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 business blog can spread a virus?
Your business could be so much depend on your blog. As I mentioned earlier, I like to download beatiful WordPress theme and the site currently use one. I also like to modifying theme particular to use as a CMS. However the WordPress 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 business?
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 wordpress 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:
- Take care that none of your folders are public-writa-able
- Restrict access to “wp-admin” with .htaccess
- Prevent comment spam by denying access to no-referrer requests
- Separate sub-domain for media files (images, audio, video)
- Backup DB daily or Weekly
- WordPress Theme
- Keepass
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Brajeshwar also had pointed out a list of malware website. Please 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 blogs. 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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Those are some excellent suggestions and pointers. I will have to get to work on implementing them. Thanks
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.
Thanks for your information. Its very useful for me since i have a lot of Wordpress based sites !
Hi Hamdani, thanks for the mention. It is quite sad that people have to exploit WordPress like that. Themes are more likely to be culprits because they are much easier to build. Actually WP themes and plugins are fairly easy to build. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to build them, but plugins require a bit more skill. Still, be on the lookout for bad plugins. I would also open the theme to check for any coding that would hijack your search engine traffic.
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