[Velocd]

If you don't wanna make the guest feel unwanted by your ban, and to make things seem more like their computer is messed up, or the site was down, I highly recommend installing the 404-ban error method, page not found, instead of using vBulletin's ban.

It's a great method of ban anyway, in general.

In functions.php, just find every occurence of:

PHP Code:

eval("standarderror(\"" . gettemplate("error_banip") ."\");"); 


And replace it with:

PHP Code:

header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
   header("Status: 404 Not Found");
   exit; 


This will output the 404 message relative to their browser, also. (unless the server has its own)
[high]* Velocd laughs cynically [/high]