Some questions from an "wannabe"

[jim_knopf]

I'm getting most of the hints to operate my 2 websites here on that board and glad some like that exisits for a wannabe-webmaster as me.

Got to questions/problems maybesomeone can point me in right direction:

1:) I had some #$%&* use my mailform script manipulated and used my mailserver to send spam.
Are there any website mailform respective form scripts that are - relative - "safe" to use.

2:) What is a good log analyzer program/software?
I use now POWER PHLOGGER phpee com

[webdoctor]

use my mailform script manipulated and used my mailserver to send spam

Was this a script you wrote yourself? If not, which one was it?

What is a good log analyzer program/software?

If you want to analyse server log files you could try AWStats (it's free).

If you want analytics, try Google Analytics (it's also free).

[andye]

mailform script manipulated and used my mailserver to send spam

- avoid 'formmail', it's really not secure. You can find a much better drop-in-replacement in the NMS ('Not Matt's Scripts') section of Sourceforge.

- read up on security at somewhere like Perlmonks (or the equivalent for your scripting language. Maybe buy a few books...

hth, a.