Trust ThemeForest ? and Pexeto?

  • paulalford

    (@paulalford)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    I am brand new to WPress and trying to find out who to trust. I bought a theme from MyThemeShop and installed it, started customizing it, their support folks are very helpful…then a few days later I get hacked. I don’t even know HOW. I was in the admin section and all of sudden the custom CSS was gone and the theme went all whacky. Then I get a “new user” email and his name is “hacker@gmail.com”. What a jerk !!!

    I am getting my hosting company to restore me back to yesterdays backup so that should get me back to where I was….BUT how do I keep jerks like that OUT ???

    I am looking at a new theme at ThemeForest and reading lots of posts on hacking, etc. so that is making me scared of buying from them. The author “Pexeto” seems to sell lots of themes on there so not sure what to believe.

    Help!!

    Paul

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  • paulwpxp

    (@paulwp)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    • Whatever email you use for admin, change its pwd along with security question. Make sure your email is safe.
    • Do you connect to the server via (plain)FTP ? If so, use SFTP instead, ask your host for it.
    • Do you connect via wifi connection ? If so, make sure it’s secured.
    • Each time you got a clean install and got hacked again, did you have that same theme(s) installed?
    • How much work do you have on this new site?, if not that much consider deleting the db, and start fresh.
    Thread Starter paulalford

    (@paulalford)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks Paul. I had done some of that, but will do them all this time.

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