Chrome v10+ Open the settings on Chrome. Click the menu icon in the upper right corner of the browser to the right. Click settings on the bottom of the menu. A faster way to get there is to press Control+Shift+Delete on a PC, or Shift+Command+Delete on a Mac. From settings, click “Show advanced settings…”. It’s located at the very bottom of the settings section. Scroll to the privacy section and click “Clear browsing data”. Select “Empty the cache”. Uncheck all other options to avoid deleting browser history, cookies and other things you may wish to retain. Change “Obliterate the following items from” to “the beginning of time”. Press “Clear browsing data”. You are done! Chrome v1 – v9 Once your[…]
Category: Tips & Tricks
You probably find out find that your server is being attacked by brute force SSH attacks, port scanning, viruses scanning for the ability to spread, things like that or for some other reason you want to block a specific IP on your server. In this article, I’ll show you how to block an IP address on Linux server using IPTables. First, I’ll assume you are already using iptables. You can check that using this command line: iptables -V Second, you have to create 2 shell script files in /etc/init.d folder. So go in the folder with cd /etc/init.d and create the first file: vi blockip.sh press “i” paste this script inside #!/bin/bash #blocking iptables /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s $1 -j DROP #saving iptables /sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables save the[…]
Google has released on June 18 2013 Chrome version 27.0.1453.116 for Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms that addresses a huge vulnerability issue with Flash Player. This issue is a specific type of clickjacking now known as camjacking, and it basically tricks users into pressing the “Allow” button in the Flash Player Settings window. This issue has been fixed by Adobe since October 2011, but somehow it could still be leveraged in Chrome to hijack web-cams and microphones. A proof-of-concept (not safe for work) (Chrome only) was developed by security researcher Egor Homakov @homakov to explain this exploit. This issue was first reported by @typicalrabbit in a blog post on http://habrahabr.ru of which the translated version can be found here. The proof shows a slide-show of pictures with girls,[…]
Hey everybody, We got several requests these days regarding the messages that are automatically displayed in the chat. Some of you probably already know how to edit or disable the messages but we thought we should write a more comprehensive article about it. This feature was added in Build 1505 of AVChat 3 to give the website owner the ability to add info messages, text ads with links or any other announcements in the text chat. In detail The file which stores the messages is rotate_messages.php located in the AVChat 3 installation folder. It is called by AVChat 3 every rotatingMessageTime seconds (option in avc_settings.xml) and it sends to it a GET variable named count which stores the number of times it[…]
These days we faced some annoying spam attacks on our forum and had to take some security measures that will share with everybody here. As first quick measures: 1) You have to ensure that the registration page contains at least a “Questions and answers challenge” and a CAPTCHA code. For those who don’t know, this area can be found in the AdminCP under the menu System->System Settings->Security and Privacy. We used to have re-captcha from Google before, but the bots were still getting in, so we switched to “Are you human PlayThru” to see if something changes. Here’s a graphic of user registrations due the past months where we can notice abuse of users registered: 2)[…]
In case you did not know we currently have an Affiliate Program and offer 25% commission on any sale you refer. How does our Affiliate Program work? You just have to make a simple website or blog (in case you don’t have one yet) and promote our products. You can also use social networks or spread the word in forums or anywhere you see fit. Our best affiliates actually write tutorials that include our products. When a person reads your article, blog post, tutorial or Facebook post follows the affiliate links back to our website AND makes a purchase you will receive a 25% commission on the sale. Basically, you as a publisher will be rewarded whenever you generate a sale. Who[…]
Ever wondered what users would appreciate on a SocialEngine website? Besides the obvious features found on SocialEngine PHP, the next best thing that we found after we’ve made a survey is that almost all of them would certainly appreciate a video chat application on a site they’re registered. And after installing our video chat plugin for their websites, owners said that users got more engaged and spent a lot more time on their site. Owners also said that at first, the users didn’t know about the extension and didn’t interact to much. So they had to make them aware of the full benefits of the video chat. here’s how they did it: Some of them hosted talk shows using the[…]
“I’d like to know if I can run other Red5 instances on my server, besides the one that AVChat requires.” This is an issue that came recently for some of our existing customers and I thought that we can share this info to everybody. It happens that you have been using a software that requires Red5 to transmit data and you have installed, for example, Red5 0.9. Good.. Now, after you got an AVChat license, you heard that the only compatible versions of Red5 with the chat software are 0.8 and 1.0 RC1. This made you wonder if you can still use your previous software running on the same Red5 0.9 as before and make a different installation of[…]
Hello everybody, Over the Internet there will always be someone who might want to harm your website’s activity just for fun or for some material reasons. We’re writing this article in order to help our AVChat customers who are getting spammed. Here are the steps that you can do in order to prevent future incidents. 1. Search for logs and look for his or her IP In case you’re not online while the user is spamming so that you can see his IP in the chat: if someone notifies you by e-mail, you can take a look over the TEXT CHAT TRANSCRIPTS and search for the desired username and find his IP from time to time, you can also take a[…]
The Puffin browser for iPad seems to be running Flash applications pretty well. Here are some shots with it running AVChat: Login screen shows up and the flash background, I can also type a username that is remembered. Good job so far! Sending messages works as well. The rooms list: Quick conclusions: text chat works fine with slight delay you can not start your webcam or mic even tough it detects that you have a microphone you can join several rooms and switch between them notification sounds do play (new message, private cam request, buzz, etc.) you can view someone’s cam but it will show a frozen frame not a video (even tough the download graph shows you downloading a[…]