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Post by Lopsum Tue 9 May - 17:43

I have an admin section with restricted access , i have had reports from other admin that other guests were viewing the admin section according to the whois widget.
is it possible ?
could it be hack snoopers?
also would a private section be visible to bots/crawlers and could this be the culprit? If so then is there a way to restrict this?
thanks
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Post by skouliki Tue 9 May - 18:09

hello

can you pm me the link to check if i can see your section as a guest
If you don't want bots to see some parts of your forum then make it members only and not open to guests that way the bots cant see it only your members can (if you have added your site to google/bing then you can not stop bots they are automatically checking your forum)
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Post by Ape Tue 9 May - 19:01

Hello I can help here.

If you have set a forum to only Admin's / Mods then No one else can see that part of the forum.

Now and then our system will show a Guest on some parts of the forum this is 100% normal This is down to a part of our system running in the background and lagging.

It is really no need to worry about.


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Post by Lopsum Tue 9 May - 19:41

thanks for the help both of you !
Ape , that makes sense and is reassuring thanks!

skouliki , most of the site is open to guests to view only. mod and admin forums are restricted , http://goodf.forumotion.com
i did invite bing/google but those are named in whois , there are other random bots though.
Its ok now though iam satisfied with apes explanation , cheers people!
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Post by SLGray Tue 9 May - 20:03

Even if it shows guests viewing an area not visible to them, all they see is the log in boxes.


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