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borbole · #25 02-10-2010, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by cardealercheck

Thanks for the info

You are welcome.

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Originally Posted by Destron

Thanks, installed

Thanks for clicking the Install button.

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Originally Posted by daveaite

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.

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

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As stated above, the point for using this mod is to hide the version number when hackers google for outdated version and hack forums at random.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

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