osile2012:
[size=18pt]I once used opencart for a client and before i knew it, people where already uploading files to my server, exploiting scripts and sending spam mails with my domain address. I pulled it down.

Can someone recommend a reliable alternative.

Thanks
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osile2012:
[size=18pt]I once used opencart for a client and before i knew it, people where already uploading files to my server, exploiting scripts and sending spam mails with my domain address. I pulled it down.

Can someone recommend a reliable alternative.

Thanks
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bassdow:


It's not the fault of the CMS script you used but your own fault for failing to do the necessary things.
On many occasions, I have seen and worked on websites having little to no security.
Whoever designed them (or should I say put them together) did a very poor job thereby leaving lots of loopholes.
Its becoming a regular thing nowadays to see websites with brows able directories among others.

Moreover if you believed Open cart was easily compromised, how far about WordPress that's so popular and easily a target.
I would advice you check the way you design your websites and also watch what module or plugin you install.

PS: Who knows if you had used a nulled script (as some people are too greedy to buy one) that was compromised. That can easily be another cause.

PSS: Doing nothing and leaving the defaults where they’re at is the worst thing you can do, and it gives the CMS (e.g WordPress, Joomla, OpenCart, etc) a bad name from a security standpoint.