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.

[mrkhm]

big up yourself!

[deathemperor]

Originally Posted by joh

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.

I will take this.

[aquariumpros]

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!!

[aquariumpros]

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

http://www.aquariumpros.ca/pp-classifieds/showproduct.php/product/interceptor.php?interceptedURL=http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-lc13.htm

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

Thanks in advance,

[KiraLove]

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.

[puertoblack2003]

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

[Scathefire]

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.

[SCuN]

great mod, install, works 3.7.0

[MD_Hacker]

Is this going to be updated?

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

[ArnyVee]

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?