Title: A virus
Last modified: October 18, 2018

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# A virus

 *  [danielunited](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielunited/)
 * (@danielunited)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-virus/)
 * Whenever I activate the plugin, it redirects my page to some spam websites. Why
   is that?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fa-virus%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [mikeflight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeflight/)
 * (@mikeflight)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-virus/#post-11009742)
 * This BS redirect problem with GDPLAYER got me less than a week after I installed
   it. THEY didn’t bother to mention the problem and it cost me $300 to get it removed.
   REALLY PISSED at WordPress allowing this known issue to continue.
 *  [mikeflight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeflight/)
 * (@mikeflight)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-virus/#post-11009748)
 * Since no one replied to the question from sakibjaber above asking for an option
   to access Google Drive do I gather there isn’t one??
 *  [ondemandretirement](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ondemandretirement/)
 * (@ondemandretirement)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-virus/#post-11057391)
 * Question to mikeflight
 * You mentioned that you “removed” the problem. Did you manage to remove the redirect
   effect or simply removed the plugin? If you fixed the redirect, could you share
   how?
 * Thanks
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-virus/#post-11057486)
 * In the future, please email `plugins@wordpress.org` with problems like this. 
   We have reviewed the code and determined the root of the issue. We will address
   this with the developer directly.
 *  [mikeflight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeflight/)
 * (@mikeflight)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-virus/#post-11057687)
 * ondemandretirement: I perhaps mis-spoke. My web server people tried many restores
   going back a long time without success and gave me a $300 option for a service
   that tracks down code problems that cause problems like this. THEY couldn’t/didn’t
   find anything they could fix so the “solution” was just to remove the damned 
   plugin—-move ALL of my video to an Amazon S3 account….and re-link/re-design the
   web site to use S3 instead of Google Drive since there appears to be NO WAY for
   a WordPress site to retrieve video from Google Drive. I find myself constantly
   amazed at how large organizations and large platforms, such as WordPress, can’t
   control their own systems. WordPress for instance gives us links to plugins to
   perform different functions on their platform…..but they do so without apparently
   bothering to test the damned things. With such a broad base…I thought they could
   be trusted…I was wrong. With that understanding….the suggestion above me that
   we not talk to each other to share these problems but email WordPress, who allowed
   this to happen in the first place, is just plain stupid. If you are the victim
   of fraud or a scam like this one you don’t ask the people that allowed it to 
   fix it…hell….they’re making money from it….you warn others so they can make informed
   decisions to protect themselves.

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 * [GD Player For Google Drive Videos By: Video JS](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-player/)
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 * 5 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [mikeflight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeflight/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-virus/#post-11057687)
 * Status: not resolved