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It's not only Norton that can block refers.

Damn I love attention seekers. Not you Thomas but the person who posted that on Secunia. That exploit has been around since version 2.2 and was being used in conjunction with the admin login exploit of 2.2 to use sites running 2.2 for phishing sites and email senders. The person fails to mention that the attacker has to have already gained access to your guestbooks admin section before they can even use this exploit and once they have access this exploit should be the least of your worries.

I do have to say that SMF is probably the most powerful FREE forum script available at present. I'm not sure what phpBB 3 will be like on it's release though. Another good, but slightly less powerful, script is UNB. I say go ahead with SMF but have a look on www.opensourcecms.com where you can try various scripts out.

VB Bulletin will work just as well as any other forum script. The only question is do you want to pay or use a free script. Once you have decided that you then have to pick which one of the type you chose you want. The beauty of choice. Like wanting chocolate then standing at the shelf for an hour because you cannot decide.

Just to clear up my initial point I was referring to the reciprocal link back to TC and not the link to the members site.

Yes AG has become a spammers paradise. Even worse is that if you have it set to allow HTML it will allow any html. Updating to Advanced guestbook 2.4.2 or Lazarus would be my recommendation to help fight the spam and fix some exploits in earlier versions. If you do wish to update your guestbook but are not sure how I am quite willing to walk you through it or even do it for you if you wish. Edit: Actually after looking at your site I see you no longer have the guestbook. In fact you no longer have anything there.

Just out of curiosity which guestbook script is it?

I was just reading the Add Me to the Family forum and how you are required a link back to TC on any sites submitted. I then read the link in the How To Add Your Site thread about the importance of backlinks when it comes to your Google position/rank. I'm not sure but isn't this type of practise against Google's terms?

In theory you could automate a lot of this so long as you are not streaming any MP3's. I've not tested but in theory you could use .htaccess to redirect all requests for files ending in .mp3 to a download script and then parse the mp3 name from the url ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] or getenv('REQUEST_URI'))and start the download IF the file exists.

Who said anything about the alt atribute? We are talking about the title attribute not the alt attribute.

Run notepad? You could just run Irfanview, press C, make browser active window, press Ctrl + F11. You then have to crop the image to the right size as well. As I have said in a certain other forum, if you can see it you can copy it. What I do hate, apart from sites that try to disable right clicks and sites that bypass pop up blockers, are sites that use images for text.

It does also increase the workload on the receiving server as it has to keep a list of what emails it has sent the busy message for. Given that most spam seems to be sent from infected machines you'd think ISPs would be more proactive in stopping it. When Code Red was out ISPs were disconnecting customers who were infected and sending them an anti virus via snail mail.

Using my method a screenshot is the only way they could get the image. I mean they would still have the image but few would go to that length unless they really wanted the image. So possibly my idea plus a watermark. A watermark doesn't have to be to obtrusive. It could just be your name over the image but instead of using a colour you just change the hue of the pixel where the text is or use a very transparent white image.

It is possible to make it near impossible to save a picture from your website without taking a screen shot but it's far from easy. First you have to use scripting to randomly generate a code for the image and feed that code to a script to send the image rather than using the images true name/location. The script will also send the no cache header. You then either make the image the background of a table cell and fill the cell with a transparent image or use a div and CSS to place a transparent image over it. This will prevent just right clicking and selecting save image as. All of the above will make it hard to grab the image without affecting the functionality of your site nor their browser.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%...newimproved.htm But as to your problem. I just tried to view http://testing.goldielookin.co.uk/socks/im...fixed_small.jpg and got this:

Your best bet is to use an outside product such as Skype, Yahoo, MSN etc. This way you save your bandwidth and don't have to worry to much about the technical side.

Dunno I always use uppercase for my directories such as Forums, Lazarus and so on.

The key is the title attribute. You can use the title attribute with any tag and the text you put in there will appear when they mouse over that tag. As for the underline and cursor change that's just CSS. I use the title attribute in Lazarus to explain what image links are for.

Just remember that not everyone sends a refer. Some firewalls actively block the refer.

Write better code Just kidding but to my knowledge TC turned off PHP error reporting a while back. I knwo I had to add it to my htaccess about a year ago. Or maybe that was a previous host.

This may be of interest to you htxp://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=2492& The second program mentioned in that email is officially found at htxp://benetonfilms.com/software/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php

I personally use Irfanview for quick viewing of files, resizing images, converting formats and folder browsing. For my image editing/creating I use Paint.NET as it's powerful but easy to use. I also have Gimp installed but found it complicated which is also why I don't use either Photoshop nor PaintShop Pro. Googles program is good for doing simple things like red eye removal and colour/hue/saturation adjustments but then Irfanview does these as well.

Lindows obviously gave up on that idea and is now called Linspire. By all accounts it's rubbish. Another good way of trying linux is Knoppix as it boots from CD/DVD.

I prefer SMF because it's powerful and it in stalls mods for you rather than having to manually edit files.

There is a mod that removes the signature and homepage inputs from the registration form and bans anyone who sings up and includes a signature and/or homepage in the sign up packet. This will only block automated sign ups as real people wouldn't be able to send either of these fields. I have had several of these and it makes me think they have found a way past PHPBB's captcha.