Comments on: Why your site was choosen to be hacked and how to avoid being chosen http://herselfswebtools.com/2008/05/why-your-site-was-choosen-to-be-hacked-and-how-to-avoid-being-chosen.html Scripts, HowTos, Templates, Plugins, Widgets, Tips Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: lbeachmike http://herselfswebtools.com/2008/05/why-your-site-was-choosen-to-be-hacked-and-how-to-avoid-being-chosen.html/comment-page-1#comment-457 lbeachmike Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:20:06 +0000 http://herselfswebtools.com/?p=248#comment-457 Robots.txt may keep parts of your site off google and other search engines, but it is like providing a treasure map for hackers. Hackers are using their own bots to crawl your website and the hacker bots will simply disregard the exclusions in your robots.txt file and use it to their advantage. So by saying "don't look here" you are actually saying "hey, look right here hackers!" Robots.txt may keep parts of your site off google and other search engines, but it is like providing a treasure map for hackers. Hackers are using their own bots to crawl your website and the hacker bots will simply disregard the exclusions in your robots.txt file and use it to their advantage.

So by saying “don’t look here” you are actually saying “hey, look right here hackers!”

]]> By: ljmacphee http://herselfswebtools.com/2008/05/why-your-site-was-choosen-to-be-hacked-and-how-to-avoid-being-chosen.html/comment-page-1#comment-226 ljmacphee Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:58:00 +0000 http://herselfswebtools.com/?p=248#comment-226 No, that is perfectly reasonable way to block directory access. Either method works fine. Thanks for mentioning it. No, that is perfectly reasonable way to block directory access. Either method works fine. Thanks for mentioning it.

]]> By: Strangely http://herselfswebtools.com/2008/05/why-your-site-was-choosen-to-be-hacked-and-how-to-avoid-being-chosen.html/comment-page-1#comment-225 Strangely Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:34:23 +0000 http://herselfswebtools.com/?p=248#comment-225 Neat article. I must get and check my robots.txt to see if I've missed anything off. You mentioned use of the .htaccess file in your post and also use of an index file in every folder. I used to do that but it's very tedious. I found you can add Options All -Indexes to htaccess that will do the same thing for the whole site. However, you seem much more knowledgeable than me so do you know of a reason why this shouldn't be used? Is there any advantage of one method over the other or even to use both at once? Neat article. I must get and check my robots.txt to see if I’ve missed anything off.
You mentioned use of the .htaccess file in your post and also use of an index file in every folder. I used to do that but it’s very tedious. I found you can add Options All -Indexes to htaccess that will do the same thing for the whole site. However, you seem much more knowledgeable than me so do you know of a reason why this shouldn’t be used? Is there any advantage of one method over the other or even to use both at once?

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