Wordpress themes and spam and virus?
I stumbled across a magazine online called smashing magazine- www.smashingmagazine.com- they offer all these free wordpress themes- I like alot of them but I am afraid to download because I don’t want any viruses on my computer- however, they state that "all themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks." Does anybody know what that means? Does that mean they test for spam/virus?
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Well, smashingmagazine is a trust worthy website so don’t worry about it. I’ve been using their theme for my site http://dailywptheme.com for ages and got no problems
I would think that it means it has been tested for virus. Mcafee site adviser gives it an ok with no complaints from users.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/smashingmagazine.com
What they mean by tested is that the themes actually work.
You should create a download folder on your desktop. When you download anything, only download to this folder. Before using any program, scan it for viruses.
Generally, templates do not have viruses – technically they are text files and are not executable – unless you have PHP and Apache installed on your local machine. The problem here would be when you upload to your website. Then that can be a problem.
Scan your files. You’ll be safe.