[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by MahdyE23

This is actually a very amazing mod, thank you for this!

It's certainly timely. See

http://www.vbseo.com/f255/summary-fi...t-issue-55099/

http://www.vbseo.com/f255/filestore-...r-forum-55368/

http://club.myce.com/f20/vbulletin-m...e-them-332219/

http://www.vbseo.com/f255/url123-red...its-end-54125/

The best guess at the moment is that malware is being used to harvest admincp passwords giving the malware network access to your admincp, which is then used to alter certain plugins to redirect your traffic (or do whatever else they want to do to your site for that matter).

There are several things noted in the first two threads that forum owners should be doing to secure their forums and their servers. This add-on provides an extra layer of protection or at least notification if someone does gain access.