Comments on: Viral Tell-A-Friend Thats Safe For Your Granny or CEO

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:39:49 +0000

Hi Norman

Glad the feedback finally got through via alternative channels – set up some Google alerts :)

Hopefully I will get to see it in action tomorrow & I am right next door so to speak in Poland.

I still think the Ghetto version has real benefits but good to see Viral Inviter is being fixed

By: Norman Freeman

Norman Freeman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:53:15 +0000

Hi Andy,

phew… just read through all the posts about viral tell a friend scripts here.
My name is Norman and I am responsible for one of those you wrote about here in the past – Viralinviter.

I have to say one thing first: Your input was very valuable for me and actually, we already acted upon it.

Viralinviter’s newest update will have many of your and other’s suggestions implemented.
Actually, Viralinviter’s newest beta already operates exactly the same way you described above about stompernet’s version.

The Authorization on Gmail’s servers can also be done similar on Hotmail’s – via a live.com login.
We will have that too.

Also, we’ll provide a best practice document to our customers about general server security and how they – if they are unsure – can use Viralinviter on a seperate hosting account without the possibility of other scripts being responsible for the hacking part and hackers THEN getting cross-access to Viralinviter.

We’ve been always on the lookout to improve Viralinviter and as i mentioned, are happy about feedback.

Thanks Andy!

Norman Freeman

PS: Are you located in Europe? or just have a EU domain? Greetings from Germany!

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:50:53 +0000

Emma you don’t work for the company you linked to on a full time basis, though I have a feeling you are working under the instructions of others who have blatant disregard for their own company published code of ethics.

I have left the link in place (evidence) but strongly suggest you question whoever instructed you to link build for clients in this way.

By: email marketing

email marketing — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:57:58 +0000

Great article. I have always been suspicious of the tell a friend feature. This outlined it very well.

By: Derrick Schmidt

Derrick Schmidt — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:27:14 +0000

Yeah these sites are always asking for your passwords and it’s so easy to give them the same as you use on gmail so there easy to remember but you can’t and it’s a sad part of the internet.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:26:20 +0000

yeah lol that google password is tied to so many different things, youtube accounts, adsense, adwords, and all that.

I never do it.

By: Make Online Income

Make Online Income — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:02:10 +0000

I saw this on another blog the other day. I thought the same thing… you want me to give you my password? Nope! I use hotmail, but man with Gmail it is really lethal as you noted (adwords, adsense, analytics, etc..). I am amazed that someone would actually give out their password but I am sure many do. Good post!

Evan

By: James Howard

James Howard — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:55:52 +0000

Hey Andy,
Excellent post, I have often wondered if there was a better way of doing things like that as tell a friend is often the first thing that comes up, it’s always the skip this part button I hit, as I do not like giving out my password to these things.

Full credit to StomperNet for being first,

James Howard

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:16:27 +0000

My next post will be about clearing up WordPress blogs that get hacked – it happens, and disaster recovery is fun though stressful

The important learning aspect though is that I don’t have any scripts on my site that ask people for personal details such as Google passwords

By: Rio@Cheap Vacuum Cleaners

Rio@Cheap Vacuum Cleaners — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:57:05 +0000

Well not until some geek would hack the system then your tell-a-friend might only end up spilling the beans.