MousePotatoPower

I recently found OpenCube.com and their fantastic CSS menu system called QuickMenu6.  The options that can be selected, the configuration interface, and it’s compatibility with different web browsers is fantastic.  It is composed of unordered lists and in my book is SEO-friendly, it can even provide a working multi-level menu with javascript disabled!

Well, OpenCube offers the menu system for free and it is available for download directly from their website.  QuickMenu6 may even be worth the $149 price tag.  OpenCube has a “piracy prevention counter-measure” embedded in the javascript.  The unfortunate part about this is that their security involves spitting out a pop-up window in Internet Explorer that says “This copy of QuickMenu has not been purchased“.  The funny thing is that the pop-up doesn’t work in Firefox.  This brings back memories of monkeys who think that using javascript to disable right-clicking on a webpage will really protect their stuff.

Javascript is plain-text and isn’t very complicated when it comes to copyright protection.  Although I have not been able to find a published solution on the web for getting rid of the copy-protection code, my feeble programming skills include the ability to recognize obfuscated javascript and I was able to find a few hints online about QuickMenu’s code.

The end result is that found what I was looking for and have been able to successfully remove the copy-protection code from QuickMenu’s javascript.  I was worried that I didn’t remove enough semi-colons, but the script continues to work and there are no more pop-ups on my website.