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How to spot a Fake Developer
Jun 26, 2008 by Paul WhiteIf you are in the market for a website, you will most likely approach several developers looking for quotes. This is fine, but most clients don't know enough to see a fraud, or see a value. They rush to the lowest bidder and then wonder why things don't turn out the way they wanted. Here are several things to look for when building a new website.
Dictionary attack IP list
Mar 31, 2008 by Paul WhiteThis is a list of IPs that tried to send email to users that don't exist on one of my client's sites. SmarterMail can be setup to reject these IPs after X failed attempts. Feel free to add these to your blacklists.
How to stop Real Player from downloading your videos with ASP.NET
Mar 11, 2008 by Paul WhiteComing soon!! Even though you can never block computer savy people from downloading your videos. The latest Real Player makes it so easy that even a computer handicaped person could download videos from your members sites. After some hacking I figured out how to bock Real Player from stealing your videos. All I am going to say is it involves an Http Handler, and an ISAPI entry to manage your .MPG extensions. I should have a full write up on how to do this within a few days.
Stop Hackers and Spam Bots in IIS
Mar 1, 2008 by Paul White
If you get a ton of server errors in your event logs in IIS. You might be under attack from hackers and spam bots attempting to inject comments and links in your submit forms. The notorious Viewstate Failed Error seems to be the result of their attempts. I have found an awesome resource to take care of this, and block these rejects for good.
How to pick a good webhost for your website
Sep 13, 2007 by Paul WhiteThis is one area that most noobies don't understand. I will shed some light on why you don't want to use the big names in website hosting.