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[JamesJames]

We use the calendar on a site of ours.  For soms reason, this week the site has used 10 GB of bandwidth!!!  This is a VERY small site, that usually has 100-200 visitors per month and uses like 200 MB of disk transfer.  This month 10 GB!!  Checked all formmails - all are okay.  Last resort we are thinking there is a problem with the calendar script??  Logs dont show much of anything weird.  Calendar was installed with latest version about 1 year ago.

Any help or advise is welcome!  Thanks!!

[musicvid]

Quite likely someone is hotlinking to images or files on your site. Commonly known as "bandwidth stealing." There are some lines you can add to your top-level .htaccess file to prevent this.

See http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml

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[neilson]

Same thing happend to me while ago it turned the calendar folder had been used to install scripts by a hacker.
they had left a file in the calendar folder called updates/pro.pl
I Didnt have the latest update 3.21 installed. I HAVE NOW.

According to my Host This is what the file could do.

"""this program allows the hacker to enter any
shell command they want via a web browser and run it on your account.
This is normally used to download and install other code into your web
space."""

Latest update is 3.21 i would suggest instaling this. and having a Look round your calendar-cgi-bin for any extra files folders.
Let me know if it helped you
bye.

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Nel

[MoJo]

Hello,
I have a user on our server that had this problem too.  The bandwidth sucker was in fact the MSNbot.  For some reason, it crawled the entire calendar everyday; sometimes twice a day.  The user's bandwidth reached the limit quickly.  We used a robots.txt file to prevent the MSNbot from entering the cgi-bin.

HTH
MoJo

[DanO]

** We used a robots.txt file to prevent the MSNbot from entering the cgi-bin. **

Lucky it was a crawler which abides by a robots.txt file!

Dan O.

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[Techie]

Web crawlers are also called web spiders from which the name is derived. Spider traps may be created to "catch" spambots or other crawlers that waste a website's bandwidth. They may also be created unintentionally by calendars that use dynamic pages with links that continually point to the next day or year.