[wp-forums] bad plugin?

[Chris Olbekson]

Good catch Mika!

On Apr 12, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:

> Follow up - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bookings-engine/ is BANNED. It auto-generates an ADMINISTRATOR account.
> 
> I'm going to contact MailChimp about this too, since it's auto-adding people to a list.
> 
> Off to find the biggest brick possible....
> 
> Mika A Epstein wrote:
>> 
>> That's weird.
>> 
>> Once you remove a plugin, it's gone, unless it's writing to another
>> file somewhere and force-reinstalling it. I don't see anything in that
>> plugin doing it, but I'll pass it up to the plugins team. Randomly, I
>> saw someone else have a recurring folder problem (not WP related) but
>> it was his backup software.
>> 
>> As for the users, I'll go hit 'em with a brick. Serial accounts, ffs...
>> 
>> Drew wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yeah. Actually olgarnold& beatruceus share 1 IP, and wp-plugin-guru (the
>>> author), john.maker786, annarenaud9, vince.little20, and paul.basson32
>>> share another IP.
>>> 
>>> Sneaky sneaky.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jan Dembowski<jan at dembowski.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Laughter. Chris beat me to it.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Chris Olbekson<chris at c3mdigital.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I just looked at the reviews and they all come from the same ip
>>>>> address
>>>>> except for 1 which is in a different subnet.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Jennifer Roberts<wpyogimail at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Re:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-plugin-is-installing-itself-automatically-every-morning-after-i-delete-it?replies=1&view=all 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> FWIW - I noticed a few days ago that the dev wrote his own review and
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> then within a short time 6 almost identical 5-star reviews appeared -
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> seems
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> kinda fishy?
>>>>>> 
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