Finally able to remove boonex footers by allowing Boonex IP. I was having the same problem as many others whereby I was following all of the suggestions given with no success and footers remaining even with registered licence. I did not even need to clear the cache. I have put is as a separate topic so it does not get lost in the forum.
The problem was that even though allow_url_fopen was on the PHP settings of the host, there was a restriction on outgoing connections. I had to specify the Boonex IP 216.246.29.22, was allowed outgoing connections. Worked immediately.
It may be different for each host so you may need to contact them directly if you can´t find where to change it but this is what my host said:
... allow you to specify a certain IP address to which you want to
connect from your web hosting account. The tool works following a
pre-defined pattern - it automatically adds the first 10 outgoing
connections from the specified IP address to the "allowed" list and
blocks all further outgoing connections, unless they have been
previously included in the list.
The purpose of this tool is to prevent any possible malicious attacks to
the server - in a lot of cases, a hacker would plant a small script,
which will attempt to connect back with his website or server, stealing
all the important information you have in your account and sending it to
his. Thanks to this tool, this will be no longer possible.
In order to open an outgoing connection to a specific IP please go to
the mentioned section and add the IP address and its mask to the list of
allowed IPs by typing the IP address in the 'IP/mask:' field of the
form. Also, if you want to open an outgoing connection to an SMTP server
at port 25 you need to tick off the 'Allow port 25: (SMTP)' checkbox.
Optionally, you can add an informative description of the service that
you're about to connect to through this IP.
Hope this helps someone.
Yolanda
