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thetgc · #27 02-15-2010, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by borbole

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...

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