I know this thread is old, but I hope the participants get this. In reading above, I’m not sure the story stops with the above information and PADD SOLUTIONS ( who I may be wrong but has broken some laws as it related to GNU)
Noted in footer.php
<?php
$tracker = get_option(PADD_PREFIX . ‘_tracker_bot’,”);
if (!empty($tracker)) {
echo stripslashes($tracker);
}
?>
This is clearly not a part of any wordpress or theme. I believe even if you clear up credits issue there is still __something__ going on here.
if you have SSH access to your hosting provider cd to the theme directory and run: grep -R tracker *
There are references to $tracker in footer.php and header.php as well as includes/default.php , administration/options-functions.php , and administration/options-ui.php
I’m going to have someone from GNU look into all this.
Michael