Why do I get "Firewall Alert" message?

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Why do I get "Firewall Alert" message?


We have implemented a new security setting to prevent hotlinking contents from other sites and tighten your entire site security.

"Hotlinking" is direct linking to a web site's files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an img tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on your own site, eBay auction listing, weblog, forum message post, etc.

Let's say if someone hotlinks your content with the link http://yourdomain.com/xxx in another domain and the firewall alert will get this alert. At the same time, if you have one site make uses contents directly linked from other site which owned by yourself from our server, you will also get this alert as well.

The security setting will also block HTTP headers with strange characters. If your site is password protected and the password is too simple (e.g. "password"), it will be blocked, too.

To change the setting, you may login your Hosting control panel -> Security -> Security Guard, to do so.






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Last Modified:6/24/2009 2:46 PM
Last Modified By: Mark
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