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Umm, it is trivial to find the template if you know what HTML is being produced.

If you can't, then you aren't a web designer. There are vBulletin support sites out there, but the official site requires subscriber log in credentials.

Removing the code from the index is pointless because the template is going to overwrite it.
 
I haven't fiddled with the site code in years.

But it's clear here when Metas account was compromised.
I sent him a message on Facebook. Changed his login stuff. Now just to undo the damage. Without me having to do a clean reinstall.

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Right, so go to that template.php file, find where it is inserting the new tab target, and alter it. It might also be in the css.php (css is "cascading style sheet", so stuff in there is used by everything else).

It's probably in several places since it's happening on almost all links. You just have to delete the target = "_blank" part and it will default to staying in the same tab.

I am by no means a web guy, and I don't know what else he may have broken, but it seems pretty clear that will at least fix the annoying new tab issue. As always, test it before putting it out live haha.
 
My guess is that the link issues can be fixed via the stylesheet and the bitmining **** is in the template file.

But I haven't tinkered with vBulletin in over a decade.
 
Removing the code from the index is pointless because the template is going to overwrite it.

LOL, the idea is to fix the template or css.

Search for "_blank" in those files and remove it.

Again, this will be trivial for a web guy.
 
LOL, the idea is to fix the template or css.

Search for "_blank" in those files and remove it.

Again, this will be trivial for a web guy.

My point is that there is a difference between removing the code from the index (forum.php) and from the stylesheet/templates.

If you edited the index and removed the unnecessary HTML code it wouldn't fix the problem.
 
My point is that there is a difference between removing the code from the index (forum.php) and from the stylesheet/templates.

If you edited the index and removed the unnecessary HTML code it wouldn't fix the problem.

I'm unsure why you are arguing with me over this. I figured it was clear the change had to be made to the css or template. No web pages are designed as static HTML anymore.

Fredi, send me those 2 files somehow.
 
I'm unsure why you are arguing with me over this. I figured it was clear the change had to be made to the css or template. No web pages are designed as static HTML anymore.

Fredi, send me those 2 files somehow.

A ton of websites are still designed using static HTML. But that's besides the point.

I'm not arguing with you. I just want to make sure the code is removed correctly.

My worry (as I echoed in the now-deleted bitminer thread) is that the SQL database is compromised. Meaning that I'm not sure fixing the template is going to solve all the problems.
 
I think that the additional windows HTML code is designed to improve the effectiveness of the bitmining malware.

Bingo. The more webpages that are open, the more CPU can be used to mine coin.

I am not touching the website on a computer again until the mining is gone. I suggest everyone else do the same.

I ****ing hate bitcoin so much.
 
Well now I know why my laptop was acting goofy regularly. Thanks for working to fix it all, I know nothing about web design or I would try to help

Also think that staying on mobile is good advice
 
If wupk or enscheff can't get in and undo it, I can probably pay a friend of mine who owns a web design company to look at it.
 
Umm, it is trivial to find the template if you know what HTML is being produced.

If you can't, then you aren't a web designer. There are vBulletin support sites out there, but the official site requires subscriber log in credentials.

The forums I am on for subscribers has not been very helpful. They did help identify the bitmining malware but did not have any useful solutions on helping me remove it. I could probably figure it out in 2 hours playing with the control panel, but I just dont have the time right now.
 
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