incrediBILL - 7:11 am on Oct 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

leave the core alone an you can instantly upgrade to any newer version

In that case you're left too many footprints and they'll still find you.

I have a few scripts used to locate WordPress sites that I captured from botnets trying to infect my machines and you would be amazed at all the things they look for in order to detect WordPress.

Therefore, you either do some major overhaul to avoid those scripts which thwarts upgrading easily or you avoid it altogether and just roll the dice, or host with WordPress which is safest.

[edited by: incrediBILL at 7:11 am (utc) on Oct. 27, 2008]