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The fourth in a series of .1 updates created to address possible security issues that could be exploited by malicious users or even registered contributors, WP 2.8.5 includes the following key changes

Last week several close friends saw a pop-up from their anti-virus software alerting them that their computers were rife with Trojans of all sorts. They were shown the list of threats and then asked to register / upgrade the software with a license key to remove the threats from their computers. The software appeared to be the very reliable, fully functional and free AVG Anti-Virus software. But it wasn’t. Be Wary of the The AVGFree71 Virus and other Virus Scanning Impostors – and a Path to Solving It, Or Avoiding It Altogether