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Juggernaut

02-10-2010 01:54 AM

Thanks, installed :D

daveaite

02-10-2010 01:58 AM

I was one of the first sites to upload to vbulletin 4.0 Beta. I literally went live when vbulletin was in beta. After that my site got hacked a bunch of times...and it was hackers searching for my specific version of vbulletin that targeted my site after looking at the logs.

So good mod.

ChopSuey

02-10-2010 07:59 AM

LOL no point in using this, as you can view page source of your site :)

borbole

02-10-2010 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by cardealercheck (Post 1978770)

Thanks for the info

You are welcome.

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Originally Posted by Destron (Post 1978803)

Thanks, installed :D

Thanks for clicking the Install button.

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Originally Posted by daveaite (Post 1978807)

I know what you mean and that is exactly the idea behind the mod although some may argue that it adds security through abscurity.

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Originally Posted by ChopSuey (Post 1978959)

LOL no point in using this, as you can view page source of your site :)

As stated above, the point for using this mod is to hide the version number when hackers google for outdated version and hack forums at random. It helps a lot in this case, trust me :)

vale4u31

02-15-2010 09:59 AM

well, nice one but let me tell u something , it's not hide the version number in the archive , i hope u will fix this :)

thetgc

02-15-2010 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by borbole (Post 1977625)

It helps a bit on avoiding being targeted by the hackers that hunt for version vulnerabilities by googling for them and hacking forums at random.

Your wrong... this mod only removes the version number, but its useless because you would still appear on google because this is coded into one of the templates:

Code:

<meta name="generator" content="vBadvanced, vBulletin 4.0.1" />

Obviously you can take it out if you find the template (not changable in general settings), but you would have to do this every time you upgrade...

Doesnt help at all because google checks the meta rather than content in 99.99% of all cases...

borbole

02-15-2010 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thetgc (Post 1982961)

Your wrong... this mod only removes the version number, but its useless because you would still appear on google because this is coded into one of the templates:

Code:

<meta name="generator" content="vBadvanced, vBulletin 4.0.1" />

I am not wrong at all. If you search at google for, Powered by vBulletin? Version 4.0.1, for ex, your forum will not come up in the search results, if the version number is hidden. And that is the wole idea of the mod as stated above numerous times.

Jabong82

02-15-2010 10:31 PM

Installed great mod!

One question though. This hack removes it from the forum area, but my version of Vbulletin still shows up on the CMS homepage? Is there anyway to remove that number too?

borbole

02-15-2010 10:49 PM

It should be a way to remove it from the cms homepage but to be honest I don''t know vb''s cms as I have never used it. Sorry that I can''t be of help.

steve1966

02-16-2010 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jabong82 (Post 1983331)

Installed great mod!

One question though. This hack removes it from the forum area, but my version of Vbulletin still shows up on the CMS homepage? Is there anyway to remove that number too?

it is not showing up on my cms homepage with the older version but the new update it does so just use the previous version if you have not got it i can pm you it

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