Possible security hazzard?

[T_Clauss]

Ok, I was doing a search for some gwbbcode related plugins for joomla. Since I need help converting a joomla mambot for use in v1.5 and i came across this in google.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee158/T_Clauss/screen.jpg

Is there a way to keep google out of certian forums? I really dont like the fact that ppl can google my account username by searching for stuff.

Im sorry for the big image but, I wanted to show that this was really from my browser and not a photoshop.

Is this a security risk?

 

[Russ]

No, see these pages on "robots.txt" All big sites use it, i.e. www.microsoft.com/robots.txt, and so on..

http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html
http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

For more info, google robots.txt..

 

[T_Clauss]

So, no this isnt a security risk?

Or, No you can't block google from posts in the suspension section?

 

[Swiblet]

No, Google bots are invincible D: But just knowing your user name wouldn't matter much. User names say nothing about the real person.

~~B3N

 

[T_Clauss]

Google bots aren't invincible.............

And yes I know user-names dont say anything about the real person. I'm trying to protect my hosting account, not my social security number.

And beside posts made to that forum are supposed to be private.....aren't they?

 

[Swiblet]

I think that depends on how Corey configured it.

~~B3N

 

[Russ]

Google bots aren't invincible.............

And yes I know user-names dont say anything about the real person. I'm trying to protect my hosting account, not my social security number.

And beside posts made to that forum are supposed to be private.....aren't they?

No, not really.. it was just recently set private from users.. I can still see it, however. It doesn't really matter, if it indexes them.. Honestly, with it being set private now it won't update those. But, on your own site you can stop it be using the robots.txt file, as I said above.

 

[Brandon]

I think you won't be affected too much if they know your username. If you want to get more help, feel free to re-open this.