Curiosity overriding caution, he opened autofixer.php in a raw editor. At the very bottom, below the thousands of lines of clean logic, was a single block of comment text that the IDE hadn’t rendered before:
“I’m sorry,” he said. “We’re rewriting the whole backend from scratch. No shortcuts.” Ioncube v7 Decoder PHP Autofixer
[>] Detecting IonCube v7 stub... Found. [>] Extracting eval chain... 12 levels deep. [>] Reconstructing OPArray... [>] Applying polymorphic signature scrub... [>] Autofix applied. Output: tax_calc.decoded.php Curiosity overriding caution, he opened autofixer