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arrest

I was just reading an analysis of a recent google patent application related to their web site scoring methodology. The link is currently slashdotted but you might check it once it cools down enough to touch... http://www.wwwcoder.com/main/parentid/285/...66/default.aspx Anyway, what I found interesting is this: "the credibility of your host has never been more important to ranking well in Google's SERP's." Apparently, if the company hosting your site is known for hosting spammers and spam link sites, it can negatively affect the google ranking of your site. Lee

sideways

shards

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King

fire

Lawns

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credit

Here is a good article on creating strong passwords http://www.verchi.com/tech/pass.htm Lee

time

Spree

.htaccess is a text file that you can place in any folder of your site that outlines specifics about access to files in that folder and sub folders. Several of the cpanel options, such as IP banning and redirects, actually write instructions to the .htaccess file in your public_html folder. The dot at the beginning of the filename ".htaccess" specifies this as an invisible file, so you may not see it in some FTP clients. You can access it through the cpanel file manager. It is handy to learn how to edit this file yourself but don't forget to back it up before you start playing. You can control access to your forums, it just takes a little time, study and experience, which you are getting now. Just keep at it and you will block this guy and make it twice as hard for the next guy that tries it. Lee

Here are a couple things you can look into. First, do a trace/lookup from cpanel on one of the IP numbers. It will at least give you more info on where this person is coming from. You can also do a whois at http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html. You might possibly block a group of IP numbers to put a stop to the problem at least temporarily. Next, see if you can find the attacker in the latest visitors list in cpanel. People like this sometimes use exotic setups that are easily recognizable in the user agent info and you can use that to block them. I think you could do that through the .htaccess file, but only if it isn't a common agent. Lee

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Yay! It's working again! thanks Robert! Thanks David!

Not sure what happened but I stopped getting emails when someone posts to a topic I am subscribed to. I have checked all my settings and nothing seems changed. Anyone have any idea what the problem might be? Lee

I have been rather amazed in watching my traffic that my error 403 page (http://www.verchi.com/403.shtml), with its stop sign notice that image theft is prohibited, is actually working. I have it set to come up whenever someone comes in through an image search...and no one ever goes past that page even though there is a link on it to my photography pages. I honestly expected at least some people to ignore it. Lee

Television

Mine is so secure they can't even run the test... Lee

Funny you should say that...I was feeling exactly the same about my response...and it's even worse when you are wrong Lee