So an update on the hacker situation: my software got cracked yesterday by a Chinese warez group. (They even went to the trouble of translating some of my marketing material into simplified Chinese — thanks guys, I think…) I’m not super worried about the effect this will have on the success of this project, but its really annoying to have my highest traffic day ever as a result of a steady stream of traffic from their website. If I had a .htaccess file available I’d redirect them to some choice comments* but, alas, I’m on Windows hosting and have no clue how to do that without borking something.
* I’d have to ask my little brother the Chinese diplomacy beast how to actually make choice comments in Chinese, but I suppose redirecting their requests for my executable to something which had the Japanese flag as a splash screen and all the buttons replaced by “Falun Gong Forever!” would cause the desired level of consternation.
If you have PHP or ASP, couldn’t you intercept requests for the exe (make a script that serves the exe rather than publishing the location of it) and then take different actions depending on the referrer?
I presumably could… just not sure how to do it, and not willing to break anything in the process. Retribution is pretty low on the priority list.