Joomla! Template 002055 - Item Support

I've been trying to deal with hacking of our sites and discovered that one of the scripts in this template uses an obfuscation technique that has been attributed to malware techniques. Can you explain why the template/as002066/ie8warning.php scripts includes this obfuscation?

$_D=strrev('edoced_46esab');

Regards, Zerowait
Hello ZEROWAIT,
Sorry, this code is not related to what happens with your site.

Regards, AS Team.
That does not come close to answering my question! Why does the code use a string reversal to attempt to hide a call to base64_decode?
Hello ZEROWAIT,
It is your license.

Regards, AS Team.
Hello,

We are also being told to upgrade to Joomla! 4. Is this template supported under 4? If not, what is the recommended path forward?
Hello ZEROWAIT,
The current template version is not supporting yet Joomla 4, we are working on it, sorry, it takes time.

Regards, AS Team.
I purchased the new version of this template to upgrade a J3 up to J5. The template would not install using the Joomla installer so I just uploaded the zip of the base template and extracted it over the old. Of course, now all the customizations are gone and the original people that customized this are long gone. How should I have upgraded this template?

Also, where are any custom CSS items and logo images, etc. placed? I am used to having a custom.css file on most Joomla sites.
Hello ZEROWAIT,
Unfortunately Joomla does not have an option for updating templates via installer, you need to delete then install new version, or upload the new version directly on your server like you did.
If you have any custom css you have to put it in the templates custom.css file, the file you can find in the templates css folder.

Regards, AS Team.
Item Name:
002055
Author:
Downloads:
8272
Sales:
1248
Created:
2013-11-01
Updated:
2024-01-10
Item Version:
4.0.0
Supported Joomla:
Joomla 5 Product
$29.00
Regular License
This item may be used for a single domain only.
$39.00
Extended License

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