Hot Linking
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We recently noticed that our website www.efurniturehouse.com is being hot linked by axsoris.com a Dutch website with many malware issue.
Any suggestions how to proceed?
Thanks in advance
Tony
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NO Kidding?! That's amazing. Learn something new everyday. There ya go, there's your other option Tony. Good luck!
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Okay so what's wrong with altering the directory where you store your image files?
Assuming a cease and desist letter isn't working, what other options are there?
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You can make hotlinking rules in your htaccess. See example here.
http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2004/06/htaccess-prevent-hotlinking
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Our bandwidth usage on our site www.efurniturehouse.com was going up dramatically while # of visitors visting was going down.
The site steeling our images is based in Holland with lots of malware. This has been going on for a while now but it got worse now. We need to find a good reliable way to stop the hot linking of images and being connected to a malware site.
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Brilliant. This is why I love EGOL. I'm still laughing.
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Some guy on ebay was hot linking lots of my images in his auctions. These were big images in really busy auctions with lots of people viewing. I asked him to stop and he said.. FU, I am not using your images. So I edited the images to say...
Parts missing. Sold "as is".
He stopped using my images.
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Maybe I misunderstood what is being hotlinked exactly. Normally I think hotlinking refers to pulling a source file from your server as opposed to housing it on their own.. Typically done with images. So are you saying your primary domain is "hotlinked?" And do you mean just that there's a link to your domain?
Please elaborate and sorry if I'm confused.
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Can't you just rename the image file or whatever is being hotlinked? Or move it to a different directory or something? Basically 404 it on them?
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