vbSEO Sitemap Generator hacked?

It seems my sitemap generator was hacked. Please see the screenshot attached.

I will try updating to see whether this resolves the problem.

Regards,
Hendrik

Did you have those threads, and a moderator deleted them? As they are showing as 404s, there's really nothing to worry about.

The problem is the Google Panda updates. They include 404 errors for Google's Rankings. It would be very supportive to delete those threads. I tried upgrading to the latest version - it seems some of those links are still there.

Are they taken from the Database - some left-overs are still there?

Any clues how this can be solved?

There's nothing to solve.
These urls don't exist... they SHOULD 404. How google found them, who knows.

In time, these will fall out of webmaster tools.


The only tab thats really important is the 'in sitemaps' tab. If you're getting 404's in there, you may have a problem.

After doing some research it seems that spammers try to use my website for building links.



Seems like I can't do anything about it :/.

Do those URL's actually exit within your Sitemap files ?

As long as they've been deleted, they will eventually drop out. It is correct for them to show as 404s as they were real, but then deleted.

Look on disk in your vBulletin archive directory for a cloaked group of black hat SEO file(s) that may have suspiciously appeared.

You won't be able to see it or the links it has created with your web browser, you'll need to FTP or SSH in.