Grrr. And request for aid

[selenay]

I was just taking a peak at the site stats for The Haven and noticed a sudden increase in hits and bandwidth. Hmm, thought I.

A brief trawl through the stats solved the problem: some enterprising little cretin has decided to use one of my wallpapers as the background for her website, linking directly from my servers.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can stop this little creep in her tracks? I believe that it's probably something that I could do with an .htaccess file, if I only knew what I was doing with that.

And I've managed to write about 100 words of Serpent sequel. Erk. I'm getting distracted by Teyla/Weir plot bunnies. So not what I wanted to write.

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[elfinessy.livejournal.com]

okay - I have a script running that hubby wrote that stops someone doing that . It checks the access and then if it isn't a listed site, it swaps the image for another one.

Have emails from embarrassed people who've been caught.

Short term I'd rename the original file and replace the file with something he/she would regret having as a background.

[selenay]

Is there any chance that you could possibly let me take a peek at your script? Or ask your hubby to point me towards some resources? I'd like to make sure that this doesn't happen again, so having a script running seems like a better solution in the long term than renaming files whenever this happens.

I will be designing an insulting graphic tomorrow night, though :-)