Miscellaneous Hacks - 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.

[Snake]

Thanks for this!

[Kihon Kata]

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

[transitbus]

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.

[Floris]

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

Good job

[djtheropy]

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

[deathemperor]

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

[dcevoclub]

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....

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

Great mod, thanks for this.

[ArabSQuad]

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 ) .. This hack would be greatest hack on earth

[deathemperor]

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.