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Well, that depends on your point of view. My personal opinion is that such a system would give people a false sense of security (since we know it's impossible f
by nbpoole 16y ago
Well, that depends on your point of view. My personal opinion is that such a system would give people a false sense of security (since we know it's impossible for such a system to detect all malicious content) and would cause "script kiddies" a few minutes of annoyance as they make the tiny tweaks necessary to evade the filter. It would also drain development effort away from the main Wordpress system.
- cookiecaper 16y agoAs long as the system doesn't make extravagant claims there shouldn't be a problem. A message on each page of the scanner like "This is only a precautionary measure that checks for known exploits; there can still be malicious code in any third-party code. Only use themes or plugins from sources you know to be safe." should not give a false sense of security, but can still help things. Anti-virus and anti-spam applications can never be 100% effective either, but we use those because they're useful on occasions where they do work. Should we give those up altogether because, since the virus writers merely have to look up circumvention techniques, it's a waste of programmer time?