I think that is a tactic that some webmasters use to try to stop "hotlinking".
Sometimes websites put a link on their website that, if clicked, pulls content from some other website without their permission. That's called hotlinking and it's a form of theft. The site whose images, for example, are being stolen, might serve a page instead of the requested image, and the page can say something like "hack attempt logged" or something along those lines. If you go back to the site where you were, right-click on the image and view its Properties, you might find that it's really coming from a different website, and it might be that that website's webmaster is angry enough about hotlinking to output a threatening message like that when it occurs. That really isn't your fault, and it's an overly aggressive tactic sometimes used by very frustrated webmasters, if that's what this is. As you can attest to, it goesn't give anybody a positive view of their website, even if they are the ones being victimized. It only upsets users, who aren't to blame. Basically, I wouldn't worry about it. But if you determine that the website where you were at is stealing another website's images, I'd stop going there. I figure it's unlikely that any of the things they threatened would actually occur. They could log your IP address and trace it to your ISP, but beyond that they have no idea who you are unless your ISP tells them, which they are extremely unlikely to do in these circumstances. Clicking on a link and accidentally triggering a hotlink isn't "hacking" by any stretch of the imagination. Actually, however, if you do want to follow up on this, you could find contact info for the website whose images are being stolen, and tell THEM about the website where you found the stolen images. The thief would be the website with the LINK that you clicked on. The victim website (whose images were being stolen) would be the website that gave you the threatening message (the website you found by looking at the image's Properties). I'm only guessing that this is the situation, but it seems likely. I wouldn't worry about it. This wouldn't be anything to report to Google or StopBadware, though, as it isn't really a badware issue -- those are only things like viruses or spyware. On Oct 18, 2:52 am, Darkwing42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I am wondering what I should do about an art site that I was > simply browsing in and it had a link that lead me to a page that > claimed I had attempted to hack into there system and that they were > reporting me to my ISP, I only clicked on a link to an image so I > can't understand why they are threatening me like this. I don't know > what I can do but I figure that it falls into the same category as a > harmful site and that the folks here may have an idea what to do, at > the least maybe make sure that it's checked by some others to stop > people from being threatened. I'm not sure if I should state now the > site or not or wait for someone with some more info, I know Google is > supposed to be one of the partners for Stopbadware, as well as > Mozilla, and they may want to know more, I just don't know though, I > am using Firefox and if the site is not Mozilla friendly they may want > to know, and I figure Google might possibly want to warn people about > the site, but I'm at a loss on what to do, so please if there is > anyone who knows what to do please speak up, thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message through the Google Groups "stopbadware" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stopbadware?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
