Title: Is there Malicious code in style.css?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Is there Malicious code in style.css?

 *  Resolved [Peter Pellenaars](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petepel/)
 * (@petepel)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-code-in-stylecss/)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for this wonderful minimal theme. I really like it.
 * But this morning I noticed a strange looking piece of code in the style.css on
   line 334.
    To be safe I de-activated the theme and removed it. Can someone confirm
   if this code shouldn’t be there or that I’m wrong with my conclusion that it 
   is malicious? I checked all previous version of this theme, but it is there from
   the beginning.
 * regards,

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-code-in-stylecss/#post-6085813)
 * So what makes you say it’s malicious?
 *  Thread Starter [Peter Pellenaars](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petepel/)
 * (@petepel)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-code-in-stylecss/#post-6085816)
 * I’m not sure. Maybe I shouldn’t use that label. I have no problem to admit that
   I’m far from an expert on these things.
    It is just that I saw a very lengthy
   piece of text at the genericon section of the style.css which I have never seen
   before and wanted to get confirmation via this forum if it could do any harm.
   In the past I had a few painful experiences with my blogsite being infected and
   am since then extra careful. Did you look at it by any chance?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-code-in-stylecss/#post-6085817)
 * That’s fine not to be an expert. It is obfuscated, but you have to go one step
   further to say it’s malicious.
 * See this for decoding base64 [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6920832/how-to-decode-base64-encoded-font-information](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6920832/how-to-decode-base64-encoded-font-information)
 *  Thread Starter [Peter Pellenaars](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petepel/)
 * (@petepel)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-code-in-stylecss/#post-6085818)
 * Point taken.
    What do you advice? Can the title of the topic be changed, or is
   it better to have it deleted? As I understand now after reading the topic on 
   decoding base64 that nothing is wrong.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-code-in-stylecss/#post-6085819)
 * I can’t see the topic needing moderation, you are allowed to ask this. The theme
   author should be aware that base64 code gets flagged up by some software as being
   malicious and so these topics are expected.
 *  Thread Starter [Peter Pellenaars](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petepel/)
 * (@petepel)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-code-in-stylecss/#post-6085821)
 * Ok. Thanks for your feedback.
    I will mark the topic as resolved.
 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-code-in-stylecss/#post-6085824)
 * I have changed the topic title so it is framed as a question rather than a statement.
   This may help anyone else who finds this topic with the same concern.

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