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Clara Oswald

Clara Oswald

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It's come to my attention that vb is now allowing people with owned licenses to renew their download access for 3 months of upgrades for I believe it's $30 if your license expired less than a year ago. So it's up to you if you want to do that or not.

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Yes, you can pay online. Via paypal or credit card. You just log into the member's area and select the 3 month option and it's a shopping cart like on any other site.

Give me a day or so to look into this more. Because a) I just read yesterday that there was a HUGE security vulnerability was found in 3.86 which basically let anyone log into the administrator's account and do whatever they pleased on the board. The BBC even picked up the story lol. and b) I thought that it gave access to vb4 but it may only give you access to 3.x versions and so it might not be worth the money. I'm reading a lot of opinions that it's not worth the money.
 
I wanted to get back to you on this. Honestly, I think it would be a waste of $30, but it's up to you.

Your $30 gets you 3 months worth of upgrades only. Our "official" version is 3.84, but I actually manually fixed the problem that was fixed with 3.85, so we're really running 3.85. 3.86 is the most recent version out - but its original release made such a huge security hole in the software that the news story was picked up by the BBC. I've heard that 3.87 will be the final 3.8x version released, and so the last that we would have access to. I can't guarantee that it would be released in the next 3 months though.

Basically, I don't really have confidence that any future upgrades are going to be written correctly. But there is always a security risk not having the latest version. It's hard to say how much and my personal feeling is not much, but it is a risk. I sort of feel like if a hacker wants to take down your site, they'll find a way though.

Long story short, it's up to you. I don't think I'll be taking advantage of it for myself though.
 
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