This clears alot of things up. This is the reason why Paul was getting so much heat in the forums. I'm with Paul and TheGeek on this one. I will add my few lines of thought about the situation and move on.
Attemping to click the install link when you install a product is nothing new. I've seen this in a couple of hacks in the past. It just looks for an image of the install URL and uninstall URL. Its completely harmless and in no way shape or form does this create a sercurty issue for users installing these hacks. You should make that completely clear to the users as your main post seems to direct users that there are flaws in hacks here.
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From time to time, Jelsoft may inspect your registration integrity. This will be done without collecting any information whatsoever about your server or your users. The only information verified will be your licence number and the domain on which the software is run. Should Jelsoft discover discrepancies in the software usage, be aware that you may lose your licence and may face legal actions for Software Piracy. Your information will not be shared with 3rd parties. Occasionally, it is necessary to record your IP address for security and performance monitoring.
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If vBulletin is allowed to do this, why can't we? vBulletin states that they occasionally will record your ip address for security and performacnce monitoring. vBulletin coder will occasionally record that you have installed this modification for statistical purposes. The only issue I could see is that the authors didn't stat this in the first post. Wouldn't this be allowed if we simply told users about this?
Either way, I will follow the
new rule and I don't think this will be fare to remove accounts as this was never mentioned it the TOS of the vB.org site. Another thing I should add is that emails no longer allow me to uninstall hacks from my email. I had recived an update email and I clicked the uninstall link in the email and I was just redirected back to the portal page.
05-15-2006, 02:59 PM
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