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Old 10-26-2007, 11:40 AM   #11

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You can always ban the ips from accessing your server, right?
You could do it from vB and the hosting control panel - that should stop them. But hotlink protection should of worked to start off with shouldn't it?
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As far as I know, that only stops images.
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Old 10-26-2007, 11:36 PM   #14

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As far as I know, that only stops images.
Cpanel allows you to add any extention, I've added .swf to my hotlink protection.
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I'd upload a really obnoxious swf file if that happen to me
I suggest Not to enable hotlink protection tho, google images can drive some good traffic if you optimize your alt tags and image titles.
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Look what I found just before we were heading out of town for thanksgiving.
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Does anyone have any suggestions as to what can be done to block this guy ?
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Interesting, is it me, or is he making an exact clone of your front page?

As for stopping it, you could try preventing images you have show on that site, if you can block them on a site by site basis.
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He's not copying anything, for some reason he's putting your site in a frame.
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He's not copying anything, for some reason he's putting your site in a frame.
Exactly...That is your site in a frame - he's not stealing your images or your content. What he's doing here is putting your site in a frame and putting his banner at the bottom to generate revenue, but all of the content loaded is from your website.

I'm not sure what is best to do in this situation, because I'm just not sure how this hurts you and if it even does. Anything that he does with his website will generate more traffic to yours.

If you did want to shut him down, you could refer to Joy's thread in the Supporters forum, because this is a similar situation.
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Look what I found just before we were heading out of town for thanksgiving.
vbulletinsource.com

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what can be done to block this guy ?

Just add the following JavaScript at the top of your header template in the vB ACP, and your site will jump right out of that frameset.

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if (top.location != self.location) {
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