yeh a fake vb means no licence which means u didnt buy it, the only version of vb u can have is some really old version vbuleltin lite or something, and to tell if 1 is fake are plenty of ways, and 1 is go to site.com/forum/clientscript/vbulletin_global.js u then look at the top and if it says nullfied like this 1 does it is fake