Someone copied my site and stat counter code!!!

[kevinaapl]

Hope someone can help me with this. Someone in South Africa made a copy of my website. Now my stat counter is tracking their site as well, because they didn't remove the code from what they stole. Any ideas how I can get stat counter tracking only my site.

Thanks, Kevin

[webado]

If they copied your site, that's theft.

If it's only the counter code, that could be stupidity on their part or an honest mistake whereby they simply made an error in the project digits of their own counter. Normally you can contact that site's owner and ask them to please make the correction.

Think about it: They cannot even get into the admin panel for those stats, it's not much use to them.

It would be easier for you to just get a new project counter for yourself.

[TimeBandit]

Hope someone can help me with this. Someone in South Africa made a copy of my website. Now my stat counter is tracking their site as well, because they didn't remove the code from what they stole. Any ideas how I can get stat counter tracking only my site.

Thanks, Kevin

GREAT QUESTION! Someone is doing something simlar to me. Someone from Italy has grabbed my shtuff and i am getting hits from their hard drive. I can see the path. And I can see it wa sin one folder, which they've renamed to "revised" so I assume they enjoyed the site, took the code and are revising for their own needs. How flattering,. Except they're throwing my stats all off. How the heck can I block that? I know I can block some IPs but their link starts with file:///C:/ -- you know, a hard drive path.

I can only block IPs that are numbers. How do I block host134-124.pool8248.interbusiness.it (Telecom Italia S.p.a)?

[webado]

You cannot do anything except change your project number and delete the hijacked one from your account. Then their copy will no longer log anwyaher eand they migth even see a message about that.

[Qusa]

I was just thinking, when I really like a web page I will sometimes download it File > Save Page as and then open it up in Dreamweaver to see how it was put together (never to copy). If the page had StatCounter code on it and I previewed it in a browser, it would show the path to my hard drive on it, wouldn't it?

Maybe that's all it is. :?: BTW very nice site TimeBandit.
kath

[webado]

I was just thinking, when I really like a web page I will sometimes download it File > Save Page as and then open it up in Dreamweaver to see how it was put together (never to copy). If the page had StatCounter code on it and I previewed it in a browser, it would show the path to my hard drive on it, wouldn't it?

Maybe that's all it is. :?: BTW very nice site TimeBandit.
kath
Yes, that's exactly it. Howeverit happens that somebody actually takes whole chunks of code from a page like that (including the statcounter code) and uses it on another page that has nothing to do with the original and even uploads that page to yet another unrelated site. That would be the bigger problem.

I save pages on my hard drive all the time when I study them for problems here in the forum for instance. I usually get rid of them once I've either found the problem or given up.

So if you ever find hits from a hd in Montreal with Sympatico as an ISP, hey, it's me! There's not hijacking, believe me :lol:

[trackerm]

Mine got stolen by a German and he used the code on his website. He wouldn’t answer emails so I sent an email telling him my counter code was spyware and I could now access his computer.
It was quickly removed.

Now in the hiding statement I use a neat line: “Below is my Statcounter code. Please delete this as I will have access to your computer”

Since then it has been saved to someones hard drive, then the name was changed, then it disappeared so he must have read it :)

I havent put it back on since I updated my code... better do it now lol

[webado]

Mine got stolen by a German and he used the code on his website. He wouldn’t answer emails so I sent an email telling him my counter code was spyware and I could now access his computer.
It was quickly removed.

Now in the hiding statement I use a neat line: “Below is my Statcounter code. Please delete this as I will have access to your computer”

Since then it has been saved to someones hard drive, then the name was changed, then it disappeared so he must have read it :)

I havent put it back on since I updated my code... better do it now lol

LOL! Good strategy!

I have scared a few hapless folks who came to my chat room portal with an audio hello and an invitation to visit my chat room while displaying their ISP's name and country of origin. I scared the bejesus out of a friend when my hello addressed her by name (she has a fixed Ip address so that was easy, I had a special audio file just for her). Regretably I had to take the audio hello out as it seemed to scare them all away LOL!

[sot_II]

That sucks...you would think they could eithe rlimit data to come from a domain or an IP...but I'm beginging to see the limits of this counter very quickly.

Hope someone can help me with this. Someone in South Africa made a copy of my website. Now my stat counter is tracking their site as well, because they didn't remove the code from what they stole. Any ideas how I can get stat counter tracking only my site.

Thanks, Kevin

[webado]

I strongly suspect that in order to verify at every pageview whether or not the page viewed is physically on the web site you specified in your account this would slow down the logging tremendously - just imagine all the additional database requests. At most this could be done at the reporting time, and then you'd never know that your counter is being used elsewhere which is what is reducing your available log limit, would you? :D

[sot_II]

What you suspect, what you know, and what the reality of the world are are different things. If this is to be the best counter...it should try and do things other metrics programs take for granted.


I strongly suspect that in order to verify at every pageview whether or not the page viewed is physically on the web site you specified in your account this would slow down the logging tremendously - just imagine all the additional database requests. At most this could be done at the reporting time, and then you'd never know that your counter is being used elsewhere which is what is reducing your available log limit, would you? :D

[winnipages]

I'm not too sure, but if someone hijacks your site, can you not implement an .htaccess file beforehand to prevent the use of files from your site being used on theirs?

Again, I am not too sure as I have just begun learning the .htaccess secrets.

[dillydoodles]

Someone saved/stole a page from my Halloween site to their computer. It's a kid's game and apparently they are playing the game on their computer, rather than on my site. I didn't write the game, and I have credits to the author and a link on that same page, where anyone can go and get the code for free. However, the person who copied my page left the StatCounter code intact so it appears in my site stats as a hit every time they access it.

I'll have to read all the posts to see what solutions you have suggested.

Dilly Doodles

[webado]

The only solution is to delete that project code and start a new one for yourself (you can set the starting count for vistors to anything you want, but you lose the history of course). Then the person using your copy of the page will get an indication that the Statcounter code doesn't connect. It may not bother them though. In any case, there's nothing you can do otherwise.

[blazemiskulin]

Ahh.... just the thread I was looking forl

I had 3 hits show up in my log yesterday that bothered me.

IP: ns1.6host.com (69.72.196.210)
Page: file://localhost/D:/1.html
Ref: http://www.webloganalyzer.biz


I'm posting the full information here because 6host.com isn't an active site yet (It's a hosting service that's "about to be launched") and Webloganalyzer is a selling software to do what StatCounter does.

I dont' think that my code was stolen (I really have nothing worth stealing, code-wise), but that the code from webloganalyzer is somehow conflicting with StatCounter. Just my guess.

I thought I'd see if anyone else is getting this, and put out a heads-up. I'm curious... if I'm logging their hits, are they logging mine? (I know they can't access the StatCounter admin pages, but are we "sharing" hit counts?)

nah it's a malicious attempt by them for a marketing stunt

we're blcoking it from being recorded now.

take a look here for more info

http://forum.statcounter.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1932

locking this thread.