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This is a profile service that I am developing. Basically like Jack’s Deep Thoughts that are found in profiles except each user has their own set of sayings. Also lets you track who views your sayings. I’m currently working on a new version so if you have any ideas or suggestions, let me know. Completely free of course, check it out.
–Sam Holton
http://www.samholton.comSounds like a good deal for people with little scripting knowledge or for people who don’t need complete control. Automatically updating the profile link would be a nice touch. Sounds like a good project. One thing I would consider is supporting unencoded URLs which would allow for spacing in screen names.
–Sam
Check out my free AIM profile service at http://aim.samholton.com
As far as making a VB server, there would be no point. All you would need is a regular webserver. Xitami, which you can get at http://www.download.com for free works really well. As for logging people who view your profile, its quite simple using PHP or PERL. PHP is easily downloaded and installed from http://www.php.net and will even configure Xitami’s settings automatically. What you would then do is paste a link in your profile to the php page on your computer. However, if you don’t have a static IP, you would have to update the IP address of the link in your profile each time you log on or come up with some other clever way of automating this. The link would look something like
Code:When other users view this profile, the %n will be replaced by their screen name, which you can later write to a text file on your PC via PHP or deal with any way you see fit. Since AIM still fails to properly encode spaces in URL’s, which would result if someone had their screen name formated with spaces, it would cause most server’s to not return the page. However, Xitami again does a good job by allowing unencoded spaces of requested pages. At this point, you can basically log anything you want with PHP, such as IP, browser, OS, time, date, etc. Good luck.
–Sam
Check out my free AIM profile service at http://aim.samholton.com
Thanks. Actually this whole idea start out as a joke. A friend wanted a way to display random text in his profile. At first there was no user interface, I just had him FTP his text file to my server. But then other not so ‘techy’ people also wanted to use it and it has evolved to what it is now. If you have any ideas of where I should take it from here, let me know or any new features that you would like to see. I’m thinking about having an option to not have the sayings random. I ran the original version off of my PC so its all flat-file. I should probably migrate it to SQL, be much more efficient.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by detn8rAt a price of 50 bucks for TDS, I think I will stick with Spybot, and Adaware, which provides the same services for free.
There are several web sites that provide this. Please don’t ask members to contact you for a situation especially like this through email.
Who are you to say what may and may not be posted on this forum? The purpose of this thread was to ask for advice and help and I was only trying to help out. Your reply is irrelevant to this thread and should not have been posted as it did not provide any further insight on the situation.
If you have a firewall running, then its doubtful that any trojan would be getting through. As far as the trojan not being picked up becuase its not running, I doubt that’s the case. In order for a trojan to accept commands from the master, it has to be running at all times, waiting for instructions on what to do. When doing CTRL+ALT+DEL, click on the tab at the top that says Proccesses, not programs. You should get a list of every process running on your pc. If you are still concerned, send me a message at and I would be happy to scan your computer for any open ports.
–Sam
http://www.samholton.com
http://aim.samholton.comA free post-scan is available at ShieldsUp!!, Please don’t ask for personal contacts.
As far as trojans go these days, almost all ‘public’ ones will be caught by virus scans. However, I have written quite a few that aren’t caught by any virus scan simply because I don’t spread them around so no one suspects them. The best defense would be to get a firewall, ZoneAlarm is free. If you are on a cable modem and that paranoid about security, you should have one anyway. Once you install the firewall, it will ask you which programs you want to have access to the internet. Of course you want normal programs like IE, Outlook, AIM, etc to have access. If anything looks shady, deny it access, you can always grant it access later if you find out you need it. If you are on windows xp, another thing to try would be to simply go to the task manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and check out your proccesses running, should be able to spot out anything that doesn’t fit.
Yes, the most probable cause of the “Error Loading Content” error is that the screename trying to view the link has spaces in it. In otherwords, they have formated their screename to include spaces. This problem arises from the fact that the AIM window doesn’t properly encode the URL which in turn causes my webserver not to be able to process the request. The only way to fix this is to disable the log feature which currently isn’t an option. If enough people show interest in this project I will continue to work on this and provide some documentation. However, there is a quick simple fix, but it won’t keep track of who views your sayings. You can change the link that is provided at the bototm of the page which need to be posted in your profile. From the page it should look like
Code:If you change the sn=%n to just sn=null it should work. Should look like
Code:If you have any other questions or ideas for the future, let me know at webmaster@samholton.com or stop by my site at http://www.samholton.com
Thanks,
–Sam
