Wow! Is this a case where someone can use their own CGI to access someone else's validate.db etc! I'm not clear on the protection provided by file permission settings but this does give me the impression that someone is accessing your validate.db with their own version of 'Links'.

Martin... is it possible to do this? I'm on holiday in California at the mo and using my Sisters Computer so I don't have my usual facilities. If I did I could check this out using my multiple ISP's.

Daniel... If you are being hacked in this way then as I see it you need to change your /data directory location and of course, all references to it in links.cfg. This may stop whoever but in the long run they may get your links.cfg and start over.

George E.D. Burville
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