Do you ever find a WordPress theme with encrypted footers? Now I don’t have a problem with people putting their signatures in a footer, but encrypting it is going to have a detrimental effect on a server, especially as the footer needs to be decoded over and over again so people can read the page. Well, before you get your self defense products out and hide in a hole, here’s one thing you can do.
It’s a blog post called How to decode ugly eval(gzinflate(base64_decode and provides a very useful script that will loop through the multiple encodings on a file to produce an unencrypted version. There’s also an online version of the script here.
Nouman on June 6th, 2009
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great and very useful post. really helped me a lot.