In my search for WordPress-related downloads in Mininova, I came across some premium WordPress themes, which were and some are available only for download for a fee. However, the files are already manipulated by the uploader so that the footer (footer.php) contained encrypted text.
These text, when decrypted by php and presented already as your theme when deactivated from the WordPress backend contain the regular links from the original premium theme, PLUS some links for the benefit of the uploader. Some of these links are even malicious by nature that link to spam sites.
So how do you get rid of these links?
Simple. Just activate the theme, then on the front page, examine/view the source code (which is all html already)--from Firefox just press Ctrl+U. Then, copy the footer area, including the closing body and html tags, and paste those to the footer.php file in your downloaded theme files.
You may want to change some of these html files to php files in order for it to behave accordingly, just like when the html file contains the logout (from WordPress) link, you may want to change it to wp_loginout() so php can properly parse it according to whether you're already logged in or logged out of WordPress.
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