[Gary King]

Originally Posted by Stray

The problem with the hack listing so many posts and threads might have something to do with the fact that it seems to continually add threads and posts made since you came back, in other words it shows threads and posts made while you were gone plus continues to add whatever is going on while you're currently there until you leave or mark all forums read.
At least that's what it does for me...

Yep that's how the built-in new post feature works in vBulletin (when you click on 'Get New Posts').

It will reset once it passes the cookie timeout setting you chose in your admin cp.

Also, for that vB3 Gold problem with strange characters, works fine for me on vBulletin 3