Nice to see this venerable, useful and very reliable plugin updated. Nice going guys.

Max if you downloaded the new version before I posted this message please download it again and overwrite the previous one, the first update had a bug :)

I have not done so because the original version still works perfectly for me on all my boards.

That's fine, as I made a mistake and that post should have been for the VB3 version :)

Just very happy to see this little issue solved for folks. Drove Ozzy and I crazy for months, before I bought a existing v4 board and didn't have the same problem. That opened the door for investigation, as it were. Gave us the angle of attack.

I think it's earlier versions of VB4 start up sequence is pretty much the same as VB3 later versions order was different, Ozzy tried the bootstrap hook and that did it! I wasn't aware of the issue until this thread resurrected itself with these posts.

It's definitely also got to do with how heavily modded the board is.... One of the early v4 boards I help admin had the same issue until all mods except this one, were turned off for a time. But that wasn't tried until just last week.

Originally we thought cron jobs were interfering, on Ozzy's board. Hence why only relatively few Baidu's were getting through. It wasn't until much later on we began to suspect hooks, and firing order, and etc.

Originally after working on it for a couple of weeks, we just blew it off for a time. Wrote it off as just a fluky deal. Until others started reporting the issue, then when I bought that v4 and didn't have the problem it really ramped up interest in solving this again. This goes back almost a year or maybe a little more, this mystery. For us at least.

Kudos to you Simon for having such a open mind about this - few devs would have listened especially on such a well established and widely used Mod as this.

I built this to aid the community so it's a no brainer! :)

Ozz and I never truly let go of a problem. It haunts us day and night until it is solved!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2015/02/1.gif

Hate to be the one to have to say this.

My site just started throwing these errors:

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.2:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE `bad_bots_blocked` SET ban_useragent = ban_useragent + 1;

MySQL Error : Table 'subaru_test.bad_bots_blocked' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Wednesday, December 17th 2014 @ 08:11:41 PM
Error Date : Wednesday, December 17th 2014 @ 08:11:41 PM
Script : http://www.toronto-subaru-club.com/f.../index.php?how
Referrer :
IP Address : 5.255.253.29
Username :
Classname : vB_Database_MySQLi
MySQL Version :


D.