Turning off Forums Spy

After two years on this forum, I am still asking newbie questions :-(   - but how the hell do you do this?  I recently made all of my forums private on one of my sites, but the "Forum Spy" still displays to unregistered visitors.  Exactly what good does it do to have something be "private" if their is a "spy" on your website that you can't remove!  Maybe it is just some simple setting I'm looking right at, but could someone clue me in on this?

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Rob

Go into builders => Page Builders and unclick the guest box, that should cause the box to NOT display at all to visitors... I know you know this Rob.

No, I sorry Mydatery, I don't know this.  On what page should I "unclick the guest box"?  I don't have anything related to Orca or forums on my page builder.   I could remove the menu item entirely from guest view but I still want to show the forums there with the existing "member only" security but I want to remove the entire "spy" part.  Maybe I am having a brain glitch, but I can't see any obvious way to do this.  Am I missing something?

Rob

gentile bump.  This must be possible, but I can't find it searching this forum.  How do I get that "forum spy" stuff to disappear?

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Rob

MyDatery probably wanted to say Builders => Navigation Menu Builder.

I'm not sure, but at the orca/index.php is rss and the spy is rss.

case 'rss_forum':
transCheck ($f->getRssForum ($_GET['forum']), '', 0);
break;

case 'rss_topic':
transCheck ($f->getRssTopic ($_GET['topic']), '', 0);
break;

case 'rss_user':
transCheck ($f->getRssUser ($_GET['user'], $_GET['sort']), '', 0);
break;

case 'rss_all':
transCheck ($f->getRssAll ($_GET['sort']), '', 0);
break;

But then, there are also the rewrite rules at the  .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^rss/forum/(.+)\.htm$    index.php?action=rss_forum&forum=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/(.+)\.htm$    index.php?action=rss_topic&topic=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^rss/user/(.+)\.htm$     index.php?action=rss_user&user=$1  [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^rss/all\.htm$           index.php?action=rss_all&sort=      [QSA,L]

Don't forget to back up before you play around :-)

Thanks Diddy - but I am not great at PHP - could you (or anybody)  tell me the exact code I should comment out for this?  I'm surprised this hasn't come up before- and that there isn't some option to turn it off.  It seems like it defeats the purpose of the forums security.

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Rob

anyone know how to get rid of forums spy?