[AlfonsoC]

After various days of battling with this hack. After trying to search more information about the table schema used by it, after sending several e-mails to the creator, after posting a request for information here (read my previous post to this) and today asking another time support for the creator (and willing to pay for this).

Got extremely p*ssed with this rogue hack and decided to get rid of it COMPLETELY of my system until a future version who solves the fails and cleans everything and deficiencies.

To get rid of v3 from your database you need to follow this simple steps:

0. MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR DB! It's vital to recover it if anything goes wrong. This steps are done by me, but everything can fail and send your Forums DB to h*ll... Give yourself a second chance to get completely cleaned.

1. I assume that you tried to uninstall it via the install.php script provided by the programmer of the hack. If not, do it and follow next steps to get a completely clean system another time.

2. Connect to your database (check with your provider if your database is on a remote server), this is my case, so you need to issue from a shell of your account this command: mysql -h databasehost -D databasename -p -u yourusername

3. Issue this command on the mysql client: drop table articles ; repeat this command (drop table) with the next tables: articleattachment, articlecategory, articlepost, articlerating. This deletes phisically those tables from your database, note that at the end of each drop table <table name> you need to end that line with ; and double check the table name...

4. Next command is very delicate, so check ten times if needed before hitting enter, because will do surgery with a table who is vital for your forums and only you want to remove a column on a table, not restoring the database and start another time from step 2.
On the mysql client you need to issue this command to remove the column added by the installer: alter table usergroup drop column articlepermissions ; (Note the ; at the end of the sentence).
Depending of the table size (small.... very small unless you run thousands of different groups) mysql client can wait for some time to return the control.

5. You've done it!. Probably you will have some more little bits from v3 articles on you DB (watch on phrase manager & template manager). But at least you've cleaned manually your DB (who the install script doesn't do giving the excuse of 'keeping' the content... wth! I want to get rid of everything!) and if you from time to time find anything you can safely remove it with complete peace of mind (will do, at least for this version).

6. Follow the install directions another time, but deleting what you added in the past (do some backups of the files before applying surgery - copy them to filename.php.original for example).

7. Remove the files you added.

8. Last but not least, click Uninstall on this thread if you previously clicked Install.

Edit:

If you followed those steps in the order I've told you, seems to be 99% uninstalled, just found little bits hanging on the DB. So... since Uninstall doesnt work as intended, you need to thank the autor to do manually. Additions to the uninstall procedure.

Fire a shell session and connect to your mysql database (just follow another time step 2 on the procedure).

Do a simple query like this: select * from settinggroup where grouptitle="v3_articles" ;

MySQL will surely return you a row as a result. In this case, fire this command: DELETE FROM `settinggroup` WHERE `grouptitle` = 'v3_articles' LIMIT 1 ;

Revised all my tables and didn't found more things related to v3 articles on my system, so if you want/need it... following those simple steps will give you a 99.99999999(pure period)% system.