Important: It is all about trust

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

is this all down to the vBsoccer RSS hack?

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.