I have come cross this article that posted on the blog of StudioPress in regarding to how downloading a premium theme or plugin from the wrong place can ruin your site, after read it, I would like to share with you.
The article is written by Craig Tuller, a former Marine and web designer/internet consultant & marketer. Its based on response to the emails StudioPress receive with questions member asked.
If you want your site performs well in the SERPs for your target keywords, you should spend bit of your time read the article.
Google+There are lots of sites out there that provide file sharing services and are meant to be a convenience for people that want to exchange large files and for other collaborative uses. There are also membership sites where the unethical practice of software sharing goes on.
Most people are unaware of the dangers in using these types of sites and the pirated software that is readily given away. Remember that these sites, many of which run the gamut from unethical to totally unscrupulous, aren’t there because they are nice guys. There is always an ulterior motive!
The inherent dangers of using these sites to save some money versus the real chaos that they can create have been widely reported. An example from Intego, an internet security firm, reported alerts about Trojan horses in pirated copies of both Apple Iwork-09 (Jan 22, 2009) and Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Jan 26, 2009). Once your computer has a trojan horse virus on it, the virus-perpetrator can do almost anything they want on your computer like view sensitive data to key-logging to crashing it … continuing read the entire article here
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