How can I stop this from happening on my board??

[influence]

Like everyday, Over 30 guests be on my board and on whois online, all of them are on one thread. On whois online it says "Viewing Attachment in Thread blahblah title" this happen everyday, over 30 of them and they be there for hours with differen IP number and no one has replied to that thread for almost a month now. I think someone running some type of exploit program or bandwidth killer or whatever on my board. How can I stop this?

[influence]

and its also funny that when I go to the forum this thread is located at, it only says the thread been viewed 473 times but then every single day for hours over 30 guests viewing that thread

[okrogius]

Viewing an attachment does not constitute for thread views.

As far as how to stop it: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/search.php

[Sebastian]

It sounds as if a site is hot-linking your images/files.

This would stop that: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=35399

[Erwin]

Someone has linked directly to the attachment in that thread from another site. You need to take some anti-leeching steps as mentioned above.

[RDX1]

or set viewing of attachments to members only

[Logician]

While you take the precautions mentioned above, have some fun for a while:

Replace that attachment (probably a picture?) with an other picture of your site banner or logo. Or if you want, you can put a picture there mentioning "This picture is being stolen from Site X" etc. Will give him a good lesson.

BTW. You can post your original attachment after that one.

If your hosting company provides you enhanced log files, you can track the referral of the visitor to find out which site uses your picture.

And don't forget prevent hot linking for an effective solution.

[influence]

well i have a dedicated server. How do i check log files?
also have cpanel and I enable the stop hot linking.

[Sebastian]

in the cpanel of your host there should be some statistic logs, look in there.