List of bad plugins and themes for Wordpress

Hi,
as I am a webmaster who wants to do now also autoblogging
with the Wordpress platform,
I wonder if there are "bad" plugins, that use hidden Cookie Stuffing
or Adsense hijacking or affilate ID hijacking,
so that these should be avoided...
Maybe someone who has come by these
bad plugins can post here a list, what plugins should
be avoided and which are the good ones for Wordpress.

ALso there are many nice looking themes out there for Wordpress
which use some footer links, which can not be easily removed and
that could get you in trouble with your Page Rank, if you use this
on your Wordpress blog, if Google thinks this is a spammer site
and when you link to it.

So, how can these themes be edited to remove these bad
footer links ?
In one theme I am using, there are some encoded
functions in the file function.php
but I have not yet succeeded to remove the right parts...
The theme is from newwpthemes.c0m
Change the 0 to o to go there...

Well, I would appreciate any feedback to this post,
cause I am still a beginner to use Wordpress
and I am afraid, that some bad advertisement manager plugins
or anything simular will just steal my affiliate or Adsense earnings...

Many thanks.
-friend4you.

To start off with autoblogging you should read this thread http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ed-autoblog-method-complete-video-series.html
as it will give you a ton of information about the good plugins to use to start autoblogging.

As for the footer, you can check out this site and it allows you to decode the footer to remove the junk links. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for every theme but it does work quite well for most.

Be careful of any Free Themes, i find that they intend to have some javascript injection in them. I use WooThemes and ThemeForest themes (some paid, some not) but always check the code thoroughly.

Plugin Wise, again, just get a coder to check the plugin, its generally only 1 file and quick to spot anything iffy.

The premium themes are the best. You can usually remove the link in the footer.php file when you go to editor. Some of the free themes hide links all over the place so you have to be careful with those.

Well,
what about widgets that are based on Flash and use Flash
cookie stuffing ?

can anybody post a list of known bad plugins and
bad widgets that want to steal my adsense, amazon,
ebay or simular affiliate commissions ?

Many thanks.

Does anyone know how to find all the hidden links in a theme. I put a collection of 25 clean themes together and wonder if I am using link stuffed themes?

Yes, please post the list of the 25 clean themes.

Nobody yet sighted a bad plugin yet ?

Please have a look at this about Parasite software
and parasiteware clickbars:

http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/podcasts/friday-podcast-the-state-of-affiliate-marketing-with-haiko-de-poel/

ALso be sure to listen to the Podcast over here:

http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/podpress_trac/web/710/0/WhoIsAndrewWee.com-haiko-de-poel.mp3

I wonder how many parasite plugins for Wordpress already exist...
that redirect your affiliate link to their affiliate code....

Also have a look at:
http://linksteal.com/