Mabuhay Web Hosting Philippines

Banned Scripts

Unfortunately, many good things are turned on us to be used for nefarious activities. Commonly used scripts are frequently exploited to allow unauthorized access to the systems they are running on. Others just require more resources than is allocated on a shared server environment.

Consequently, in order to keep Mabuhay Hosting network and servers safe, we may need to take actions that inconvenience our good customers. Any time we find scripts or other commonly used tools that can become easily compromised or impact other users by using too many server resources, we may need to disable scripts or other tools installed and used by our customers.

Whenever possible, we will notify our customers in advance. We will also attempt to keep this page updated with current scripts which will require removal from our shared servers and/or our network.

This list includes script/program names, reason for ban, who/what servers they are banned on (e.g. our Shared or Network wide) and provide alternative options for our customers whenever possible.

Banned scripts:

The following scripts can be exploited by spammers:

• Matt Wright's FormMail -- all versions
• Jack's FormMail.php and its derivatives

The following scripts easily and frequently cause resource (ab)use problems:

• UBB "Ultimate Bulletin Board" -- all versions
• YaBB + YABB se "Yet Another Bulletin Board" -- all versions
• UltimateBBS (all versions)
• Ikonboard (all versions)
• Hivemail
• PHP-Nuke
• adcycle.pl
• Greymatter (all versions)
• PHPBB
• Off-network search engines

The following activities often cause a server to be the target of DOS attacks, are resource intensive and/or are used in conjunction with illicit activities:

• IRC bots and clients
• IRC Egg Drops & IRC related programs.(chat software)
• Proxy servers
• Hacking tools

The following scripts are used for the purpose of spamming or sending Unsolicited Commercial E-Maill, and are not allowed for that reason:

• any script used in the course of "domain prospecting"
• any script that queries the WHOIS databases for e-mail addresses

Additionally, the following are also not allowed on our servers:

• The Anonymizer
• lstmrge.cgi
• Shell, SSH, Telnet Scripts and Shell, SSH, Telnet Alternatives
• Any script that uses & processes a massive number of flatfiles or large flatfile databases.
• "album.pl", coded by Mike Bobbitt.

Other scripts may be added to this list from time to time as needed. Please feel free to contact our technical support team if you have any questions about whether a script is allowed on our network.

If we find banned scripts active in your account, we will disable or remove the offending script and send you an email notifying you of our actions.

If you are worried about a script you or one of your clients intends to use, please send an inquiry to us with as much detail on how the script functions and anything else you feel we should know about the script. Please do not ask us if "Script X" is ok without providing any information on the script. There are thousands if not millions of scripts available and there are only a few of those we may be familiar with.