http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/

Source Protector

Although this script won't completely protect your page content, it will deter those wanting to steal your code. When you right click on your mouse, an alert box will appear. You can include a message of your choice.

http://www.javascript-page.com/noclk.html

Right Click Menu

This nifty little script not only helps prevent your code from being stolen, but it also creates a pop up navigation menu. When you right click on your mouse, instead of browser menu appearing, your menu will appear. This little menu can contain live links to other pages on your web site.

http://www.geocities.com/html_4u/rc_menu.html

Banner Rotator

This simple little script will enable you to rotate banners on your web page. You simply add your banner information to code and place this script within your web page where you'd like your banners to display. Each time your page loads, a new banner will be displayed. Great little script.

http://www.javascript-page.com/banrot.html

Daily Tip

This script will enable you to display a daily tip on your web site. You can program it with tips for entire month and they will automatically display each day.

http://www.geocities.com/html_4u/dailytip.html

FairWell Window Launcher

Although popup windows can be irritating, this script is a little different. It will launch a new window when your visitor leaves your site. What's great about this script is that it will only appear first time someone visits your web site. If you offer your visitors a free publication, try placing your subscription information within this new window. This provides a great way to increase subscriptions to your publication.

http://wsabstract.com/script/cut65.shtml

Locating JavaScripts: http://javascript.internet.com/

Locating DHTML Scripts: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

Learn more about JavaScript: JavaScript Learning Center http://www.javascriptmall.com/learn/contents.htm

Although JavaScript can certainly help you spice up your web site, there are many scripts that your visitors may find irritating. Try to avoid scripts such as mouse trailers, mouseover sounds, mouseover pop up windows and mouseover redirects. Carefully select scripts that will enhance your visitors experience and encourage them to return in future.

I hadn't clicked on anything! This script had been activated simply through me visiting page. There were no warnings on page that this was going to occur. What javascript had done was to reset my "home" page and added entries to "My Favourites"! I examined script that had caused it occur and while I won't publish it here for obvious reasons, I can assure you that it would qualify as a "scumvertising" tactic.

When restarting IE I found that via an ezine site and another marketing company (from where script was called), I was being redirected to a very well known software companies' home page. In total, there were 4 companies involved in this particular incident - I look forward to responses to emails I will send them.

If you have had this happen to you, I'd like to know about it.......

The JS.IEStart trojan is also known as VBS.Passon (CA), VBS.PassOn (NAV) VBS/IEstart.gen.

While it is not destructive, I object strongly to other companies adding sites to My Favourites and altering default home page without my permission or knowledge. If I hadn't had my AV program running in background, I probably never would have figured out where this script came from. I have since then copied scripts, along with appropriate screenshots pending further action.

It is an invasive, disgusting marketing tactic that only serves to irritate visitors; and it helps give web marketing industry a bad name. I am sure company I was redirected to will be interested in knowing that their advertising cash is being spent on a marketing firm who uses, in my opinion, illegitimate means to send visitors to them. It is a waste of their money as they are recieving traffic that is not targeted - what is known as "garbage traffic".

To companies that incorporate this type of ploy as part of their "bleeding edge" marketing technology - "may you live in interesting times"! You will be caught out!

It's bad enough that we have to travel 'net with our AV programs and firewalls on "paranoid" mode - do we now have to have "pop up killers" running all time as well?

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