Hopefully this will help some people, with encrypted theme files. Use these tools to decode them yourself.
Better yet, avoid encrypted themes entirely. They’re always malicious in some fashion. There is no legitimate reason for a theme author to encrypt a theme file.
This page will let you decode the encryption that seems most commonplace, the one that looks like $o=whatever:
http://ottodestruct.com/decoder.php
I based the interface for it off of this one, which will decode the type of encryption that starts with $_F=__FILE__:
http://www.tareeinternet.com/scripts/byterun.php
Another one is here, for those that look like: eval(gzinflate(base64_decode('...')));:
http://www.tareeinternet.com/scripts/decrypt.php

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