for real people, calm down. Its not your liscense thats going to be revoked and thats the most jelsoft will do 9 times outta 10. Oh and if they are feeling real good, they try to get your hosting company to remove your account :)

But anyway, i still wonder why someone would take all those steps to remove something controled by phrases anyway, and then even remove it from the AdminCP like the public can access that :???:

I think he means just from the login page.

Yes I'm aware of that..

And I'm doing nothing illegal here; the copyright is staying intact,
just the version is removed.

If Jelsoft has a problem with this they can remove it ;)

Yes it is, but why do it when the point is just to remove parts viewable by members and guests?

You might want your staff to know.

I didn't say that . I don't know how you got my name in there.
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Version number is also shown on "Archive" page

I just edited the phrase to remove the version number from the footer and archive page, my mod/admincp have .htaccess files to lock them down anyway.

Still need to look into the page source tho :) just haven't got round to it.

You can also enable debug mode and then you have another option

vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > Version Info and Other Untouchables

and there you can change it to whatever ..

if u was always upto date then u would`nt need to remove version number - so be vigilant cause there is a lot of script kiddies out there who would love nothing better than to bring your site down.

And what makes you say that? And we still haven't heard anything from the staff on this site yet.

This has been exhausted over and over on vBulletin.com. It's fine to remove the version number, though you have to keep the copyright information.

exactly this hack is fine. its totally fine to remove version.