How do remove 'credit card (save)' Payment method from Magento?

I’m using paypal payment product. If you see the attached file i get 3 options. The first 2 work fine and 开发者_运维技巧are actually all i require. The last option

Credit Card (save) doesn’t seem to work. Can someone explain what this option is, also how can i remove it.

The Credit Card saved method will allow you to accept credit card information for a purchase, but Magento will make no attempt to verify its accuracy other than a simple luhn checksum. The credit card information will be stored in the database, encrypted using a call to

Mage::helper('core')->encrypt($data)

In a default 1.4.2 instal, you can view the payment information (including the credit card) with the following SQL query

SELECT * FROM sales_flat_order_payment

You can view this Payment method in

System -> Config -> Payment Methods -> Saved CC

You can also set it's "enabled" config value to "No", which will remove this as an option.

Fully securing credit card information is a Hard Thing™, both from a technical and bureaucratic standpoint. Unless you and your team have the expertise to do it (which, based on your question, I'm going to assume is a no) you don't want this option turned on.

Just disable it under the payment methods configuration in back-end

It is a really bad option. It saves all the user's credit card information to your database (so that you could process it manually later if you have a hardware terminal but no payment gateway). Head to the admin payment options and disable it and it should disappear.

You should hide it with css display: none;

.payment-icons-box {
    margin-bottom: 15px;
    padding-bottom: 15px;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
    display: none;
}