IanGJ – rare man of reason and tip of my hat to you. You are right on the money around some of the words used on this and other threads. I’ll also reiterate that I don’t have a problem with technical bugs nor do I have a problem with fighting piracy. My problem is that these cowboys hid a function in their code that has the ability to take over my site whenever they want and display whatever they want. That is unacceptable. Why would anyone in their right mind allow such a malware code on their site that’s absolutely ideal for any black hatter to attack? Why does tagDiv have to engage in such stratospherically over-the-top measures when they suspect a license isn’t valid, especially at their very first sniff of a license anomaly?

We mustn’t accept or approve of any xenophobic and such language; on that we agree. A**holes, c**ts and w**kers exist in all languages, nations, shapes and sizes. They may be fulltime s**tbags or part-timers, but the fact that they are d**kheads with disgusting business practises, like our friends at tagDiv, has nothing to do with where they’re from, who they love or which fictional character they idolise.

I ripped out everything tagDiv on my site and installed another theme. It’s an absolute nightmare. My site looks awful, but I can fix it with a bit of time. I will NEVER allow them to do this to me again. I mean honestly, who is stupid enough to let someone hold that kind of power over them on their website? You give tagDiv keys to highjack your site whenever they want just on a pinky promise they never use that power? Good luck, but I prefer not to give them that power over me in the first place.

It really isn’t unforeseen. If you put that kind of a high-jack feature into your product and make it malware, it was only a matter of time that it activated either by accident, by a hacker or a disgruntled employee. Hiding a feature that allows you to take over a site like that makes you nothing more than pirates! I am not happy giving ANYONE the ability to lock down my site and change what my visitors see whenever they want. That’s not what I look for in a theme.

With all due respect, Calin, calling what you did an “inconvenience” is the very best thing you could have possibly done. When you took my site down and made me look an absolute fool, I was probably the angriest I have ever been in my life. Then you call it an “inconvenience”… a mild irritant, no big deal. Okay, not a big deal for you – clearly – but let me tell you it was a big deal for me and I fully appreciate the fact that you couldn’t care less and that’s fine.

I’ve yanked every last shred of your malware off my site and I’m slowly getting back on my feet. Go me, right?

If your very first step is to publicly take over the entire site if you even think that your theme hasn’t been paid in full (which it was, by the way), then you possess a very dangerous mind. That’s the equivalent of launching a nuclear missile on live TV at someone who *maybe* walked across the road against a red light.

If you had put a small banner at the bottom of the site saying there appears to be a problem with this site’s license registration that pops up when an admin logs in, that I would find an “inconvenience” but it wouldn’t result in me tearing my hair out and screaming about it online. Your very first step was to take my site down and publicly call me a thief and that, young Calin, is a step beyond “inconvenience”.

You stepped too far doing that. I really would’ve preferred had you not chosen to do that, Calin.

Not working for me. I get a registration success message but now the damn thing says Unregistered at the top regardless of how many times I clear my cache. I’m absolutely fuming.

Excellent Richard/Alex. That solved it! Cheers.

Got the same. Be good to hear if anyone solves this one.