This is a very old hack of mine that I just pulled of vb.org. It has been forever since I have even looked at this code. I know it works on most vb2's. I will try and support it the best I can.


What this hack does:
This hack make it so that your users cannot add a huge number of smilies to a post and hope to bring your server down.
The way vb currently filters smilies is that it parses them into the <img tags and counts the total number of html <img tags.
What this hack does is counts the number of smilies before vb even parses the smilies.
The parsing of the smilies can put a great load on a server and bring it down if they use enough smilies.

This hack will take your max image amount and add 15 images over the limit before this hack will actualy activate and warn the member. This hack will not work properly for thoose who have set the max image option to 0.

Features:
when system is activate user will be show an error page for to many images. User will also get a Private message telling them that they went over the limit and how many images they posted. The webmaster will get an email as well telling him the users ip,host,username,userid,how many images they tried to post.
Plus the user account you setup in the file will also get a private message containing this info as well.

Attached Files

smilieabuseprotection.txt (4.1 KB, 13 views)

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Thats a very usefull hack for vb2 users. -cheers-

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Yes without this your vb2 can basicly be used to shut your server down. People can put thousands of smilies in a post and your server will parse them all out to images before vb does the image count check.

Thats pretty cool :eek2: If I still had my VB2 I'd install this baby right now. :thumbs_up nice job buddy

I'll install this on my vB2 right now.

Err... ok notnow but tomorrow.

* Ryan Ashbrook Installs.

Is there any chance this hack will be converted for vb3 ?