I got the theme from a friend before buying my copy. I installed my new copy but in my panel i use to see something null.net. See below
Pls how can I get rid of this. It is also showing in parts of the theme settings.
You should fully delete the pirate version your friend apparently had — I may be mistaken, but best to be safe; and do clean install of WordPress to be safe. Do it via FTP, so you can delete old versions of theme folders (all of them!), old plugins (all of them!), and do clean full install of WP. Seriously.
I don’t know if withdraw my words 🙂
OMG that page is the new free Themeforest 🙂 version
@neotrope Reinstalling wordpress??? That is a long process. But will the pirate stuff harm my site in any way or the other??? @nairolf2013
@catalin-l expecting you here
Well, if there is malware, back doors, porn spam, etc. in the pirate version … uh, yeah, it probably will hurt your site — having no idea “where” the “friend’s copy” came from ?
You do realize this is the same as installing pirate software on your PC, there are many files, php codes, snippets, javascript — all of which can be damaging to your site if malicious.
Have you scanned your site with SECURI yet ?
Reinstalling WordPress is pretty quick if you know how to FTP stuff — unzip the clean WP installer from WordPress.org ( not from ‘a friend’ ) and then drag over all the pieces to your site “over-writing” the existing files … just to do quick safety check vs doing nothing at all. Replacing the default twenty-sixteen theme with clean version, deleting ALL other plugins and themes, is a wise choice.
Have you done anything at all, like research this on Google — it’s your site, only you can fix it if something is broken from using “borrowed” software. Theme devs can’t fix that for you.
http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-scan-your-wordpress-site-for-potentially-malicious-code/
Hopefully lesson learned!
Hello,
We always recommend getting rid of pirated versions and installing the official version of the theme. We have never seen that logo before. It does not come from our theme.
https://null24.net/ is a well known pirate that is providing illegal/pirated copies of most themeforest themes.
SO yes…you are dealing with a pirated version that could harm your site in all matter of ways. The most obvious one being security threats that could have been injected into the code in these versions.
Thank you!
Thanks I have compared all the theme folder and files with the original one. I met like 3 files not among so I deleted them all and everything is in place.
and tell your friend to stop being a dumbass !
Hadharm, I don’t think deleting the 3 extra files is going to help if there is malicious code in the files that should be there.
Ok at Chris thank very much.
