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The only plugin I had was glowhost which I had uninstalled earlier. The problem persists.

I'll make sure I haven't overlooked any reply, but it did seem pertinent to post in this thread as from the posts above other readers may be misled into thinking it's exclusively a vBSEO issue when it's not.

I've NEVER had vBSEO installed. I didn't even know what vbSEO was till I started researching this filestore redirection problem where everyone seems to be blaming vBSEO. vBSEO might be one of the routes in but if anyone reading this thinks they are okay because they don't have vBSEO, think again.

There seem to be other ways in!

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One strange thing I noticed is that even after uninstalling glowhost there are still many glowhost related lines in the datastore.MYD table (and possibly elsewhere!) But, of course, the problem may not be glowhost at all but a flaw somewhere else in vB or my security that has allowed the hackers in.