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Originally Posted by TheHeartSmasher

I don't want to have to go uncheck installed for something I have downloaded and not actually installed. Some of the modifications are not what was expected before download or may conflict with something that has already been done, but could only be found out by downloading the file and testing it on a test site.

Yeah, download != install. However, install == install. And a callhome would handle updating 'installed' on both install and uninstall. It would work very much like the already exiting version check and product urls.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?do=product&sa=install&pid=xxxxxx&vblicense=xyz
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?do=product&sa=uninstall&pid=xxxxxx&vblicense=xyz

Or whatever way you want to secure it, if not vblicense. That's just an example. vBulletin itself already does this for tracking it's own installs, so I really just don't get the flap over having a centralized way for hack authors to do the same.