[TAC] Bot Arrestor

[TAC] Bot Arrestor 2.0.12

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Bugfix Release:

Fixed bug in DeDos model resulting in errors after installation if cache is empty.

Update recommended for all customers.
Product was taken over from Yugensoft.

NO new features or bug fixes.

No need to update your installation!
Added request URI whitelist to options
[TAC has been acquired by Yugensoft]

Changes:
Proofread and edited phrase lists.
Changed to uniform naming and version string format.
First pass code review and formatting cleanup.
Added bulk installer tool to the complete package.

This add-on specifically:
Renamed to 'Bot Arrestor'
minor fix to make this work with xenforo 1.4.x and 1.5.x
I've fixed a high priority defect: when the webserver did not have permission to back up htaccess and the option to update htaccess was ticked, an "open stream: Permission denied" error was thrown

is_writable is now verified, and the back up creation is within a try/catch

I have also added the amount of kB DeDos takes up in the cache (compared to other addons). I do this since DeDos relies strongly on the simple cache (to be able to block bots with 0 query overhead)
I've removed some unnecessary simplecache updates
(sometimes the simple cache was updating when no changes had been made)
- There was also a redundant setsimplecache('myvar', false), which was unnecessary.


I've tweaked secret ingredient 1 (I think this is pretty much there now)
I've fixed the admin search issue for the dedos cache

I have added a bit of code that removes session switches from the cache as soon as secret ingredient 1 is detected

I have set the default option for "Same IP Session Switcher" to false, since it wont be useful on bigger boards where a single IP could be used by many networked users.
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I've tweaked secret ingredient 1

This makes it extremely hard to ever cause a false positive for this mechanism :)
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