[ Moderator note: moved to Fixing WordPress. ]
After installing a plugin recently (ShareThis) from the WordPress plugins directory, I decided that it wasn’t what I expected so I deactivated and then uninstalled it. Guess what? Not only is there still a “ShareThis” tracker running in the background on my site, but the elements are still on my page. This plugin is MALWARE at this point. Why is it still in the directory? Better yet, does anyone have any idea how I can actually get rid of it? I contacted the developer through the support forum to no avail (surprise!).