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Posted by SpaceGirl on 08/08/06 15:14
softwarelabus@yahoo.com wrote:
> Andy Dingley wrote:
> > softwarelabus@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > > I wanted to warn all website owners that some evil web hosts like
> > > vistapages will periodically place a robots.txt file on your site that
> > > disallows all search engines. It happened to me.
> >
> > OK, so that's pretty evil. Not quite sharks with frickin' laser beams
> > on their heads, but it's more evil than you want from people you're
> > giving money to.
> >
> > What did they say about this? How abject was their grovelling apology?
> >
> > You're not still _with_ these people are you?!
> >
> >
> > > You should also look for this file when you ftp to your site in case
> > > your web host places a sneaky server script to make robots.txt
> > > invisible only to you.
> >
> > If I were evil (Mwwaa ha ha ha) I wouldn't place a robots.txt in
> > anyone's web root, I'd use some config to serve a standard robots.txt
> > for HTTP requests for it, without you even having a file to see. As
> > easy for the evil admin to do, and less obvious.
>
>
>
> Sometimes I wished some x-virus creator who turned good would write a
> god virus. A virus that actually did some good by destroying other
> viruses, removing evil disallows in robots.txt from your hosts server.
> ;-) I know, I know, two wrongs don't make a right ... don't sink to
> the level of evil, lol.
>
> Is this such a bad idea? If the government agencies caught a good
> virus maker would they be prosecuted or given the nobel price.
>
> just food for thought is all.
> Paul
Given that even commercial antivirus occasionally mis-detects
legitimate software as a virus, imagine if say, by some mistake,
"photoshop.exe" is accidentally labelled as a virus. With your "virus
killing virus", you could do vastly more damage than an regular wild
virus would ever do. Really Really Bad Idea.
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