Yeah the main way people appear to identify bitthopper is the corrupted shares issue and its user-agent. I change the json user agent in work.py (lines 61 & 83) to match a common miner.
Here's the relevant code and what I changed it to (I hope this could be included in the official version):
diff --git a/work.py b/work.py
index 7063219..aeeaa34 100644
--- a/work.py
+++ b/work.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def jsonrpc_lpcall(agent,server, url, update):
request = json.dumps({'method':'getwork', 'params':[], 'id':i}, ensure_ascii = True)
i = i +1
- header = {'Authorization':["Basic " +base64.b64encode(server['user']+ ":" + server['pass'])], 'User-Agent': ['bitHopper'],'Content-Type': ['application/
+ header = {'Authorization':["Basic " +base64.b64encode(server['user']+ ":" + server['pass'])], 'User-Agent': ['poclbm/20110709'],'Content-Type': ['applic
d = agent.request('GET', "http://" + url, Headers(header), None)
d.addErrback(print_error)
body = yield d
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def jsonrpc_call(agent, server, data , set_lp):
request = json.dumps({'method':'getwork', 'params':data, 'id':i}, ensure_ascii = True)
i = i +1
- header = {'Authorization':["Basic " +base64.b64encode(server['user']+ ":" + server['pass'])], 'User-Agent': ['bitHopper'],'Content-Type': ['applicat
+ header = {'Authorization':["Basic " +base64.b64encode(server['user']+ ":" + server['pass'])], 'User-Agent': ['poclbm/20110709'],'Content-Type': ['ap
d = agent.request('POST', "http://" + server['mine_address'], Headers(header), StringProducer(request))
response = yield d
header = response.headers
