https://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=341&p=2926#p2926
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moreteavicar
Thu 14 Sep, 2006 20:19

Re: Hackers (meant Lammers) Looking For Us!!
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However, regardless of all that, I think that the title of this topic suggests a very simple solution that should help avoid sites being a magnet in the first place, and prevention is always better than cure. 


Replace "Powered by phpBB XS 2 based on phpBB © phpBB Group" with an image, and store it in a newly created directory like /images/footer/. Remember to copy there an index.html file from one of the other image directories (or else you own with a redirect in) to prevent directory listing. Use something like the password generator [url=http://www.puremango.co.uk/cm_online_tools_76.php#]here to name the image file, and then replace the text in the overall_footer.tpl with "<img src="/images/footer/randomly_generated_filename">". THis should then stop undesirable types doing a google search on phpBBXS. Might also want to do the same for the cracker tracker logo/text.


