Remote Links Interceptor
 

<font color="Red">Disclaimer</font>

This is idea belongs to Blizzard Entertainment and its community of World Of Warcraft. I just found it useful for vb so I create this for my site and I think you may need it too. Credits go to Blizzard.

Usage

Recently the acts of keylogger scams and PC security have been increasing. No one wants to lose your credit card numbers, your game accounts, chat logs with your gf or have your PC hacked. Keyloggers and trojan can be installed by just pressing a link. I'm a gamer and I have a board, I don't want me or my friends to get a trojan/keylogger by pressing strange links from the posts on my board. So I found the idea of the world of warcraft community is really nice and vbulletin boards would need one (I actually just saw it this morning).

How does it work ?

The hack will check for any urls that are intentionally/automatically put on [url] bbcode if it is from your website or a remote one. The urls works normally if they are not remote, otherwise a message will display confirming if you want to open it with some advices (those can be edited via RLI_error_message template).

This product use:

one new file.
one new template.
one file edit.
one template edit.
0 query.

To install, follow the steps in instructions.txt.

Demo

http://www.holvn.org/forum/showpost.html?p=89717&postcount=7064

There are 2 links in that post, one is remote.

Compatible
This products work good on both version 3.5 and 3.6 of vB

Any ideas are welcome.

and spare me for my bad English T_T.

How about a sample link so we can test it out?

demo please

This is a sample:

http://www.holvn.org/forum/showpost....postcount=7064

There are 2 links in that post, one is remote.

wow, that's great stuff.........thanks

can we exclude a specific page from this hack?
I have a downloads page and I want to exclude it

that may be added in the future, I was thinking that too to give your allowed sites. Wouldn't be much of a problem.

That would be great then.
So just to make it clear for me, if I use this hack, will it prompt this download for example. This is DownloadsII add-on. I think the links of the downloads are internal.. then it forwards to outside somehow:)

Ok Its not working...

uploaded interceptor.php to forumroot
edited includes/class_bbcode.php file
edited headinclude templates
imported the product...

But no result!

I'm sorry but I can't read your language but I assume if the link redirect after it is pressed, there will be no problem at all.

@soulface: I coded this on my localhost, then installed in on my live board as a test for the installation and there were no errors. Can you check the instructions again ? I'd like to test it out on your board, just make a post with remote and none-remote links.

Thanks for this! :)

I'm still trying to figure out what the HE double hockey sticks, this does

It adds a warning before going outside of your domain to an external link. This prevents the possibility of being duped into a phishing site.

Thank you for sharing this with us, nice idea and very cool taht you gave credit where due :D WoW ownz!! :D And trojans suck. So putting these together in a little nifty mod to help every site benefit from this: karma++

Good job

i recently made a post elsewhere about how to add security measures to my teen forums, you just provided me with the best answer yet :)
thx

hey Floris, tnx for your nice words. I'm glad that I can make hacks that help the boards :)

so there is no way to specify which URLS are allowed, ie subdomains of my home URL? because users are getting this when their viewing links to other posts in the forums....

Great mod, thanks for this. :)

umm so wat if some1 putted like .. fire fox download link .. it wont work right ? and just view that page ? ,, if it would work ( the firefox download link for example :D ) .. This hack would be greatest hack on earth :D

as I stated on the above posts, future version will allow you to input a list of allowed urls. But even without this, remote urls still work, the hack doesn't stop you from visiting those urls, it just warns you.

Works perfect but in you instructions you say in class_bbcode.php but dont give were its at took me 20 mins searching my ftp /includes/class_bbcode.php if anyone need to know thanks.

Preview :d with add effect
http://www.chavmagnet.com/interceptor.php

For your next release, can you make it possible to turn this off by the user? Have them sign a waiver of some kind stating that they understand the consequences of accessing external link from your site and agree not to whole your forum responsible. This option could even go in the warning page. I for one would hate to see this each time I click on a link.

joh nice idea id love to see that also

thanks for hack..
can we make selectable vbcode for example rmt tag for only this matter?

Works great, thank yoU!

Great. I've been looking for something like this for ages after I first saw it on americasarmy.com :)

I love what this mod does.

But I installed it, uploading the file to root.

Nothing on 3.6.2. No errors. Nothing.

Double checked the edits and reloaded the product.

can this be set up for a specific forum? I have private boards where members have been approved by hand, so I am not that concerned about URLs posted there, but we also have public boards where people can sign up and post freely.

this is a great idea, it should be built into the next vb, many uses.
looks like deathemperor has a lot of work cuz all these ideas are great.
like
adding a list of allowed urls you set
adding a waiver where it can be disabled by user
make this enabled in x forums you give the number 2
a [rlp] bb code
great ideas, however im not going to install this just yet i will wait till i can make this only work in the forums i want, i have a forum on my site for links, this is a WONDERFUL add to that section, i haven't enabled that forum yet, im waiting for the Remote link protector next version:)

Head scratch here.

Started working today.

Strange, but happy it is.

big up yourself!

I will take this.

Thanks again for a great Hack...!

Any news on anyone being able to set this up to check options on a per-user basis? What has been suggested to me on my board is a checkbox that would be able to be selected NOT to show this warning again (based on cookies).

Any ideas??

Thanks again!!

Also - I just discovered that links entered within my PhotoPost Classifieds open like the following:

Any idea what needs to be added and where to get this to work within PhotoPost as well?

Thanks in advance,

This didn't work for me, even the demo site example if I click on the offsite one it goes right to it with no warning or anything.

works great how can i get it when you hover over the link a small window pops up with url info

just had a random someone try to link my users to a bad site, is this mod still usable? Just reminding someone to be careful of where they are going would help a bit if they are not thinking when they click it the first time.

great mod, install, works 3.7.0

Is this going to be updated?

Edit: There is an error when clicking on links that are placed in the signature area, any fix?

Both links went to the pages without a warning or anything. Can anyone confirm that they have it working and show a working demo please?