if so his reasoning is about right, there's no free Football RSS score feeds available for a reason and even if he was to resyndicate the content, it would just seap to out of vBulletin use and his server would be hammered.
if not, then share the secret?
Nope, I think it's about the code that tries to call the vb.org "install" link when a product is first installed. This is something I (and a few others) added recently after a discussion about it in mid April.
Basically when a product is first installed (not updated) it tries to link to /vborg_miscactions.php?do=installhack. If the link is made then it's the same as manually clicking install, if the link fails then nothing at all happens. The same happens if you uninstall a product. It has nothing to do with plugins within plugins, backdoors, security, added functionality or anything else mentioned, it's a simple link back to the vb.org site.
As far as I can tell - it will also fail unless you are logged into vb.org at the time, meaning it's not actually that useful, the majority of people still actually have to click the links manually.
If this thead really is about this then it's unbelievably over the top - reading the first post gives the impression of some major security threat or alert, not some minor call back to vb.org.
I think it's also a preemptory warning. Spyware (because that's what it is when you get down to it, doing an action the user didn't consent to) won't be tolerated.
reading the first post gives the impression of some major security threat or alert, not some minor call back to vb.org.
Parts of first post:
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcoH64
The reason for this thread is that, to our own shame, we received recently reports that there are coders who do incorporate hidden functionalities in their modifications. Lucky the type of hidden functions could be considered as relative harmless, but we will nevertheless not tolerate this. [high]I would like to emphasize that this did not sent any security or privacy related information, nor did it in anyway brake the security of your site.[/high]
The discovered hidden functionality where aimed at a backdoor in the services of vBulletin.org itself, and have by now been closed. The effect of this functionality will be corrected by us soon. There has been no negative effects on the boards that are using any of these modifications.
I think it's also a preemptory warning. Spyware (because that's what it is when you get down to it, doing an action the user didn't consent to) won't be tolerated.
I think it's also a preemptory warning. Spyware (because that's what it is when you get down to it, doing an action the user didn't consent to) won't be tolerated.
05-15-2006, 03:38 PM
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