Why you might need this: Since UBB6 makes a user log in, it makes Microsoft Internet Explorer's AutoComplete feature more likely to prompt a user with a username/password combination. For users of a PC in a shared environment, this is a security risk, since just by guessing the first few letters of a user's login name, an unauthorised user can log in. For users of confidential forums, it also alerts other users that a particular user also uses this PC.
Installation Edit public_login.pl
Find:
Replace with:
Find:
Replace with:
...and that's it.
Note: both AutoComplete and the AUTOCOMPLETE tag are Internet Explorer specific.
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