Mini Mods - Hide Version Number. Updated with hiding the version everywhere automatically.

This is a small hack that it will allow you to turn off the public display of the version number of your vBulletin forum. You can enable and disable it at the Acp-Options-Forums Home Page Options.

I know that it can be easily done by changing the language phrase but this way is handier in my opinion.

Updated: With hiding the version in the templates automatically with thanks to Boofo.

Update again. Now it hides the version at the archives as well and therefore the version is hidden everywhere.

[Juggernaut]

Thanks, installed

[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.

[ChopSuey]

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

[borbole]

Originally Posted by cardealercheck

Thanks for the info

You are welcome.

Originally Posted by Destron

Thanks, installed

Thanks for clicking the Install button.

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.

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As stated above, the point for using this mod is to hide the version number when hackers google for outdated version and hack forums at random.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

[vale4u31]

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]

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:

<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]

Originally Posted by thetgc

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:

<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...

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Jabong82

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