'New Posts' not working after upgrade to vBulletin 4.2.2 Patch Level 4

[MrEyes]

Yes, see comment #7.1

Probably worth mentioning what I said in post #4 again - things easily get lost in threads like this. This originally started as an issue with 'new posts' however I...

[MrEyes]

Still no further on with this, following advice from vb.org I have done a SQL server level reindex and some other jiggery pockery. The output of this is below. In summary:

• VB ACP -> Settings ->

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[MrEyes]

Hi Mark, I already have that line in my config.php my changelog shows this as being there for over a year now (it was added to prevent some PHP error displaying after an upgrade)

[MrEyes]

Some more movement/info on this:

Short story, still no worky

Long story....

I have stopped APC* by disabling at both PHP (via apc.ini and then restarting httpd)...

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Rightio, following advice from vb.org I have rebuilt the search indexes. This was done via the command line utility as this is a mid to large site and doing this via ACP isn't really viable.
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[MrEyes]

Actually, now I have had a chance to sit down and start to look at this properly it is apparent that the entire search system isn't working properly. No errors, just no results.

As an example,...

[MrEyes]

Queue Search Updates is set to yes and the scheduled job is active and set to trigger every 10 minutes.

Repair / Optimize doesn't highlight any issues with the search tables.

[MrEyes]

Hello all,

After upgrading from 4.2.2 PL1 to 4.2.2 PL 4 the 'New Posts' links no longer work, i.e. the following:

mysite.co.uk/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post...

[MrEyes]

It not so much the SEO aspect rather there are literally thousands of links out there in the wild that now point to a 404 resource. So it was about not loosing humans when they hit a not found page....

[MrEyes]

Thought as much, I would rather not use something as big as DBSEO (having just got rid of VBSEO) so I will just stick with it as is, take the hit on SEO for a couple of months and move on.

[MrEyes]

I believe the answer to this is "not without an external mod", but....

Is there a way to include the forum name in friendly URLs for threads, so rather than:

http:...

[MrEyes]

Well the post from JarretC has finally led to finding the cause of it, rather than a writeup it is all neatly summarised on the page he linked to:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/01/server-s...

[MrEyes]

Well the vbulletin-core.js version number hack didn't work, members are still reporting warnings.

Completely at a loss now

[MrEyes]

Unfortunately it would seem that this issue is not yet resolved - just a moment ago one of my members reported that their AV software (Avast) had popped up an alert (screenshot below)

A couple...

[MrEyes]

Heres a thing, last night I edited includes/functions.phprint_output($vartext, $sendheader = true) from:

if (empty($vbulletin->db->explain) OR (defined('VB_API') AND VB_API

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[MrEyes]

Found them:

http://www.vbseo.com/f5/faq-s-rogue-...62/#post326304

I have also raised a ticket with vbseo for them to help out/advise...

[MrEyes]

Not aware of these could you point me in their general direction...

[MrEyes]

Interestingly one of my members emailed me a copy of Kaspersky detecting this (see attachment). Notice the url in it ends with /q.php. In theory if this is being injected as part of vbulletin the replacement...

[MrEyes]

Hi Joe,

Already done the base64 search, just redone it and found the following results:

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[MrEyes]

An update...

Having gone through vBulletin and plugin php, css, js with a fine tooth comb and not finding anything I got around to thinking that maybe the injection is occurring at a lower...