[wp-forums] bad plugin?

[Mika A Epstein]

Drew spotted it.

Chris Olbekson wrote:
>
> 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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