From Milo

I have just made a blog today, and found a pretty nice theme for it, there was one problem, in the footer there were a few links to some sites that i really did not want to be linked to. There would be no problem for me to retain a link to the designer, but not links to 4 useless sites. So, i decided to remove those…but again the links were encrypted, so i started searching how to decript them.

It took me several hours to decrypt the footer.php i wanted and make the theme look good. Meanwhile I found out that there are several methods of encrypting. The are posts around that teach you “how to decrypt footer.php” but most talk about only one kind of encryption so my problem was not solved from the first piece of information I found.

Ok, enough with the useless talk. I am not going to teach you how to decrypt the footer.php link actually, but how to get rid of them. The basic idea is that there are a few codes around that if you use you can forget about the encripted links.

So.

1. If your footer.php looks like this :

<?php /* WARNING: This file is protected by copyright law. To reverse engineer or decode this file is strictly prohibited. */
$o=”QAAADSc7JycNDRbDDg0OAKYNOzh3b3cIECdwd1gXYy

8uPCc4OQHwZWhjfsQAAIETMGs5JwPgJyc=”;

eval(base64_decode(”JGxsbD0wO2V2YWbGxsbGxsbGwpOw==”));return;?>

Notice the $o=”" and the eval(base64_decode(…………”));return;?> part, then you will need to change it with the following code :

……………………………………………….

 <div class="clear"></div>
 	</div>
 	<div id="footer">		</div>
</div>
<?php wp_footer() ?>
</body>
</html>

………………………………………………

This solved my problem. BUT if you footer.php looks other that the above, well I sugget you go to :

http://forum.howbits.com/index.php?topic=22.0 and search through that thread and you will find your answer.

Hope this helped you