It’s possible if you got it via a 3rd party theme developer it was hacked to promote affiliate revenue scheme’s, you should start from clean, NEVER use a Theme that requires you to install their own plugins. BUT, that said, yes, it is a poorly run project, and the community has no interest in protecting the projects integrity, it is a cultural problem as the focus is on getting affiliate revenue out of everyone, there are a handful of supporters on community forum but they are somewhat naive as to what is happening here and why this paradigm will not change. You might want to consider other theme frameworks that are not controlled by one cultural group.
