4) Accessing Unauthorized Areas Of Your Site

I'm astonished sometimes by what I find. I recently was considering purchasing a piece of software and decided to do a search in Google for reviews to see what others thought. What came up as the 3rd listing? The download page for that piece of software! Imagine if I'd posted that URL in a busy forum!

Beat this problem by (1) always using an index.html page in every folder you create so these "hidden" areas aren't view to anyone who chooses to look, (2) consider adding a robots.txt file to exclude search engine spiders so pages like your download pages don't appear in their results and (3) try not to name your folders anything too obvious.

Popular scripts have standard and wellknown setups that will enable anyone in the know to fiddle with your site if they know the software you're using.

5) Tell A Friend Scripts

These too can be abused by spammers emailing thousands of people via your site.

As these are often set up to send a number of emails at the same time they can be powerful spam tools and with a limited number of popular scripts on the market there are only a few that the spammers need to figure out before they start to make trouble.

To counter this problem find a script that allows total customization of your form making it harder for spammers to work out what script you're using, and the facilities to ban users by IP or email address so trouble-makers can be quickly and easily extinguished.

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