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Malware in my theme

Up until a few days ago, when I made my last post, I thought I had a very nice theme worked out for my blog. The only issue was, posts kept loading really slowly, as if they were waiting for something. I didn’t know enough about it to figure out what could cause it, but Habbie did and he found that the issue was embedded in my theme. Apparently it queried the site xpstatz.com for some reason, most likely for malware purposes. Since my theme came from a non-official themes site (I can’t even remember which one), the malicious code was probably embedded in the theme by the creators of that website and then distributed. I would never have found out if the queried site, 2.xpstatz.com, hadn’t been down all day. So just to be safe I figured I should get and edit a different theme, from the official WordPress site. Who knows what else is embedded in the other one…

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