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In the event that you run into problem with BotBanish and you cannot access your site to remove BotBanish via Package Manager; follow these instructions to manually remove BotBanish:

Rename your .htaccess file in the root to another name. Rename the latest .htaccess backup file to .htaccess

For SMF

Easy Reversal:

• Log in to your site via FTP. Navigate to the folder where you installed SMF.
  Navigate to the "Packages" folder.
  Find the backup file for the latest BotBanish installation.
  Unzip the file and copy the contents to the folder to the folder where you installed SMF.
  You will need to go into the SMF Settings table to remove any BotBanish References. Search the values table for %botbanish% and remove the entries.
  

All changes have now been reversed.

Hard Reversal:

• Open the BotBanish installation zip file and extract the file titled modification.xml. This will show you all the files and the code in the files that you need to remove or replace the files entirely with backups.
  
  
• Log onto your hosting site via FTP or thru File Manager.
  
  
• Remove from your SMF Sources folder all files that start with BotBanish.
  
  
• Edit your index.php file for your SMF installation to remove the line require_once("Settings_Client.php") and other areas enclosed with the BotBanish tags;
  
  
• Edit or replace all the files listed in the modification.xml file.
  
  
• Delete the BotBanish and BotBanish_Log folders in your root and SMF folders. Also Any file with "BotBanish" in the name from the root and/or folder where your app is installed. Also all files titles "Settings_Client.php" in the root and app folder.
  
  
• Remove from the smf_Settings table from the variable and value columns any items with "BotBanish" and "BlackWhite" in the fields. This will remove all hooks..
  
  

For OpenCart

• Log onto your hosting site via FTP or thru File Manager.
  
  
• Switch to the /vqmod/xml folder
  
  
• Rename or remove the file named BotBanish Firewall Client.xml
  
  
• Edit your index.php file for your OpenCart installation to remove the line require_once("Settings_Client.php") and other areas enclosed with the BotBanish tags;
  
  
• Delete the BotBanish and BotBanish_Log folders in your root and SMF folders. Also Any file with "BotBanish" in the name from the root and/or folder where your app is installed. Also all files titles "Settings_Client.php" in the root and app folder.
  
  

For WordPress

• Log onto your hosting site via FTP or thru File Manager.
  
  
• Delete the BotBanish folder in your WordPress and root folder.
  
  
• Edit your index.php file for your WordPress installation to remove the line require_once("Settings_Client.php") and other areas enclosed with the BotBanish tags;
  
  
• Delete the BotBanish and BotBanish_Log folders in your root and SMF folders. Also Any file with "BotBanish" in the name from the root and/or folder where your app is installed. Also all files titles "Settings_Client.php" in the root and app folder.
  
  

For Websites

• Log onto your hosting site via FTP or thru File Manager.
  
  
• Delete the BotBanish and BotBanish_Log folders in your root and SMF folders. Also Any file with "BotBanish" in the name from the root and/or folder where your app is installed. Also all files titles "Settings_Client.php" in the root and app folder.
  
  
• Edit your index.php file for your Website installation to remove the line require_once("Settings_Client.php") and other areas enclosed with the BotBanish tags;
  
  
• Remove all code that was entered into your webpages that calls BotBanish.