crescentx,

Good lord, where did you come from? Two posts on the board and you're hitting my top 10 list of GWW's Most Helpful People.

Since you seem to know a bit about htaccess can I pick your brain a little more?

What does the + in this line mean?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.+\.cybersexnetwork\.com/* [NC]

Is this a sort of wild card taking care of the www. and non-www versions?

And you're right about it throwing off security software. The line in my own htaccess for MANcheck is as follows:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.+\.mancheck\.com/* [NC]

And I get about 1-2 people a week who complain they can't get in. It seems to be an issue with XP firewall, Norton's anti-virus or firewall, or Zone Alarm. Is it better to leave out the + and use

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mancheck.com/* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mancheck.com/* [NC]

Or can you think of any other way around this problem, it's really a pain.

Again thanks so much for your help.
Dzinerbear