I fully understand what your concerned is Badge and I did take the time to read that thread and saw your comments there as well. But for you to come on here just completely blasting them was really not necessary.

Like I said, you could of just said, "hey if you guys use this app, please be aware of this bug with the registration process" then explained what is going on, posted a link to that thread and thats it.

But you decided to say that they are forcing people to play "blackmail" money ..lol..come on man.

I haven't had "one" single spam account through tapatalk because I took the time myself to make sure that it doesn't happen. If I was able to do that, why can't you or others?, that is my question.

It is a free version you are using and you have to understand and realize and also accept the fact that you are "probably" going to get something you don't like or something is going to not work how you would want it to.

Like I said, I am sure others will appreciate the fact you brought this up here on vb.org but the way you did it was just not cool.

Have a good one.

Well, if it had only been 6 weeks since they've been made aware of it, I would agree, but it's been over 6 months and they've done nothing to address the issue, except to recommend site owners buy their paid monthly subscription version, which of course has this simple OFF switch built in. Doesn't that sound strange?

During the intervening 6 months, they've release no less than 4 updated versions, after having been made aware of the seriousness of this problem to vBulletin sites. I don't know what else to call that behaviour, other than "revenue blackmail". Other vBulletin admins posting were perhaps more polite and said that Tapatalk should be ashamed of themselves for not dealing with this simple exploit. Perhaps I was more outspoken, but if it walks like a duck, well... you know the rest of the phrase .. :D

To be honest, I'm less concerned by spammers exploiting their wide open "back door" registration process, as I am about a hacker getting registered easily this way.

They've once again promised a fix in the next release, which we've all heard several times before... for months and months and months ... :erm:

So, let's wait and see. If they fix it, I'll be the first here to say to members, now it's safe to install and it will follow your secure vBulletin registration rules and process.

I do recognize and appreciate you're happy (and secure) letting your members use their direct un-moderated registration process for your forums, but there are a lot of other vBulletin sites who are not, so, let each one decide themselves after reading the facts presented ...

At least now, they've heard both sides of the story ...

Regards,
Doug

Doug,

I hope you don't mind calling you Doug lol..

No I honestly understand your concern Doug, but what I don't see is how this is a real security threat, you still have not explained to me why you feel that it's a security threat, you don't need to be registered on any site or forum if their intentions are to hack you. If someone wants to hack you they will do it.

One more thing, I personally believe that all of you guys who use these mods to combat spammers are actually inviting them to keep trying it by using them on your forums and sites. I don't use one single mod like Akismet, Glow Host Spam-o-Matic, StopForumSpam database, SpamBot Stopper, because when i did use a couple on that list I noticed even more spam attacks that before I used them.

Again, it takes a lot of hard work to run a website especially a forum and the use of these addons to combat spamm is like telling a kid they can't do something and they go ahead and do it just because you are telling them they can't.

And on our forums I don't have "un-moderated" registration like you say I do. Not one single registration has come from tapatalk ....

I just upgraded my 'tapatalk' to mobiquo_vb40_4_9_1; have been using tapatalk since it first came out. As soon as I upgraded it I started getting this error message at the top of every page load on web version of my forum:
my mobiquo directory is in the root directory of my forum.

anyone? I've asked at the Tapatalk support forum as well with no response =S

i read your error message and i think not follow something is not correct?

Warning: include_once(..../forum/mobiquo/smartbanner.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ..../includes/class_bootstrap.php(561) : eval()'d code on line 13

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '..../forum/mobiquo/smartbanner.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in ..../includes/class_bootstrap.php(561) : eval()'d code on line 13

check this? (..../forum/mobiquo/smartbanner.php this is NOT ROOT FOLDER

(..../mobiquo/smartbanner.php this is ROOT FOLDER.

you follow this instructions?

source: http://tapatalk.com/activate_tapatal...ugin=vbulletin

Install

1. Download the zip package of Tapatalk Plugin for vBulletin to your computer.

2. Unzip the package. You should see a folder named 'mobiquo'.

3. Upload the entire 'mobiquo' folder and only this folder to your forum system root directory. For example, if your forum URL is http://www.mysite.com/forum, it should be placed at http://www.mysite.com/forum/mobiquo/.

4. Login to Administration Control Panel, go to 'Plugin & Products' -> 'Manage Products'.

5. Choose 'Import the XML file from your server', enter './mobiquo/product-tapatalk.xml', click the "Import" button.

Update Tapatalk Plugin

1. Login to Administration Control Panel, go to 'Plugin & Products' -> 'Manage Products'

2. Find out 'Tapatalk' product, click drop-down menu on the right hand side, select 'Uninstall'.

3. In Deletion Confirm window, click 'Yes'

4. Delete "mobiquo" folder from the root path of your forum.

5. Redo the Installation steps. (Make sure plugin folder 'mobiquo' was replaced with the new one, and product xml file was imported.)

Uninstall Tapatalk

1. Login to Administration Control Panel, go to 'Plugin & Products' -> 'Manage Products'.

2. Find out 'Tapatalk' product, click drop-down menu on the right hand side, select 'Uninstall'.

3. In Deletion Confirm window, click 'Yes'

4. Delete "mobiquo" folder from the root path of your forum.

Yes I followed the instructions just like I have through each and every update.
My 'forum root' IS http://xxxxxxx.com/xxx/forum (as it is on a SUBdomain of my site) so my structure is http://xxxxxxx.com/xxx/forum/mobiquo . I've had it installed like this for at least two years and never had a problem prior to this upgrade. It works fine on the 'ipad/iphone' user end, it just screwed up my web version.

you have try to uninstall (complete) tapatalk

and install again?

i check .xml file to upload other friend (tapatalk support forum) and find all commands search this path .../mobiquo/ or MOBIQUO_PATH you have check ADMIN CP => SETTINGS => OPTIONS => TAPATALK

Tapatalk Plugin Directory
Advanced Use Only. Change it only if you did rename the Tapatalk plugin directory. And the default value is 'mobiquo'. If you have installed Tapatalk plugin in different directory, you will also need to apply the same settings in Tapatalk Forum Owner Area at http://tapatalk.com/forum_owner.php

in my case and works fine all plug ins

install whole VB package to root /public_html/ or /www/ and not have any problem.

so I gave up. totally uninstalled and reinstalled. guess it's like my phone and ipad and computers: reboot cures all.

vBulletin 4.x
Stable Release 3/16/2014
Version 4.9.2
Download : http://tapatalk.com/files/plugin/mobiquo_vb40_4_9_2.zip