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Old 03-17-2012, 09:45 PM
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I don't know much about the licensing terms, but if you own a vb3 license doesn't that allow you to download the latest vb3 version?
No it does not. The VB3 license "expired" after a certain time, and if you did not pay the upgrade fee you are stuck with the latest 3.x version released on the day of expiration.

VB had a $50 upgrade promotion to upgrade all 3.x users to the latest 3.x version but as announced it was a limited time thing, they stopped it after a few months.

Today the only way to upgrade to 3.8,7 is to buy a 4.x forum license.

Also while your 3.6 forum MAY be being exploited (vb.org is 3.6) the vast majority of people who have spammers getting through the spam question is because of human spammers. They are paid minimal wages but all they need to do is sign up for forums all day and enter that data into a spam database that bots come in and post with later.
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