LinkDeny 1.1.3

LinkDeny 1.1.3 offers you a professional program that includes many outstanding benefits.

Unscrupulous site owners may link to your content directly and literally STEAL your BANDWIDTH. This theft is commonly called leeching, hotlinking, inline linking, or bandwidth theft, and such direct linking to your valuable images, videos, binary files or other important site content is typically done without your knowledge, let alone your permission! Now, with LinkDeny, you can fight back and control full access to your Web site or Web-based application content and to ensure that your bandwidth use is for your site users only -- keeping out all types of "bad" traffic.

LinkDenys powerful ACCESS CONTROL features allow you to transparently stop bandwidth pirates and potential hackers in their tracks by limiting their access via Web request metadata including, IP address, GeoIP (country or geographic), referring URL, demographics, length of user session, type of Web browser, existence of a cookie, and HTTP request header type and content. The FLEXIBLE RULES-BASED system allows you to dream up just about any method to allow or deny access to content resources, making LinkDeny a powerful security tool for Microsoft IIS Web site administrators and management.

Major Features:

1. LinkDeny's powerful access controls can block downloads of your content based on requestor's:
   
   • IP address
   • Referring URL
   • Country or geographic location
   • Length of user session
   • Type of Web browser
   • Existence of cookie
   • HTTP request header type and content
2. Rules-based System
   Rules-based system for transparently controlling site access over any HTTP/HTTPS connection to a Microsoft IIS Web server:
   
   • Allow or Deny access to specific URL paths or MIME types of files (wildcards and regular expressions supported) requested by a browser or proxy server based on pre-configured criteria:
   • • By Referer URL, domain or host name (the URL from which a request is made)
     • By User-agent type (browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox (Mozilla/5.0), search engine robots like Googlebot, etc.)
     • By IP address (by single IP address, a range of IP addresses or the IP addresses of specific countries by a geographic IP address database integrated from Port80 Software partner MaxMind - learn more about included 97% accurate database or optional 99% accurate database upgrade)
     • By HTTP request headers standards conformance (the presence of specific text in request headers)
     • By user session (allowed time for URL access, managed by URL or cookie flag and mask)
   • Full control of LinkDeny site requests and responses, including:
   • • Log and take no action (by default on installation)
     • Redirect request to a specific URL on your site or any site
     • Replace response with a particular file (image, HTML, etc.)
     • Replace response with 404 HTTP server error message
3. XML-based Rule Templates
   XML-based Rule Templates provide ready-to-deploy anti-leeching and access control rules; dozens of access control templates provided, including
   
   • Templates to Allow or Deny a request based on geographic IP data:
   • • Any specific country
     • More than two dozen continental and regional rule templates (North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, etc.)
     • Rule templates by demographic information:
     • Top Countries with Most Internet Users
     • Top Countries with Longest Surfing Internet Users
     • Top Countries with High Risk for Hacking or Fraud
     • Top Countries with High Risk for Phishing Attacks
     • English Speaking Countries
     • Miscellaneous country affiliation rule templates:
     • European Union (EU)
     • World Trade Organization (WTO) Countries
     • U.S. Embargoed Countries
   • Templates to Allow or Deny a request based on the request's referring site:
   • • Content Leeching Sites rule templates:
     • Top Blog Hosts (Blogspot, LiveJournal, etc.)
     • Top Social Networking Sites (MySpace, etc.)
     • Top Auction Sites (eBay, etc.)
     • Top Anonymous Surfing Sites (Proxify, The-Cloak, etc.)
     • Other Major Internet Sites rule templates:
     • Top Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, etc.)
     • Top News Sites - General (NYTimes, Slate etc.)
     • Top News Sites - Local and TV (NYPost, Telemundo, etc.)
     • Top News Sites - Financial (SmartMoney, Bloomberg, etc.)
     • Top News Sites - Tech (Slashdot, InfoWorld, etc.)
     • Top Internet Portals (MSN, Amazon, etc.)
   • Templates to Allow or Deny a request based on best practice security policies:
   • • Allow common Web browsers only rule template
     • Deny images or video without user-agent header present rule template
     • Deny image or video without referrer present rule template
4. Full logging functionality intercepted requests and LinkDeny actions
   
   • Transparent logging only mode (by default)
   • Logs available in text files for review
5. LinkDeny rule testing utility
   
   • LinkDeny rule testing utility to validate rules and insure proper anti-leeching and access control rules
6. Import/export settings
   
   • Import/export settings for migration and server-farm deployments
7. Multiple management interface options
   
   • Easy to use GUI management interface
   • Direct XML rule file editing
8. No server bounce required
   
   • No restart on install
   • No service interrupt on settings change
9. Supports servers and web farms
   
   • Supports single IIS Web server or IIS Web farms
10. Implementation
    
    • Implemented as super-fast ISAPI filter
11. Compatible with multiple server environments: Compatible with ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP and most JSP application server environments. Simple to install/uninstall

 Requirements:

• IIS 6.0 / Windows Server 2003 (all x86-32 Bit versions; sign up for the x86-64 Bit Beta Alert)
• IIS 5.1 / Windows XP (not recommended for production use)
• IIS 5 / Windows 2000
• IIS 4 / Windows NT