allowed?

[spyrorocks]

hello, all.

i would like to make a page on my bluehost account that would like to some computer prank programs i made. None cause damage to the computer. They do things like open the cd tray, and turn off the monitor.

Is this against the bluehost TOS?

[areidmtm]

As long as it doesn't damage the computer or illegal. Note that this is not an official bluehost answer. Contact support for an official response.

[spyrorocks]

OK, i will contact them by email.

[areidmtm]

Don't use email. Use live chat located on the main page of www.bluehost.com. Sorry, I should have said that before.

[spyrorocks]

OK, i will. thanks.

[agcssautomotive.com]

Ok, dont know about their answer, but here are some guidelines. Because if those programs are installed on a corporate machine, the corporation can contact blue host and request to have you shut down, they may also charge you for clean up. Not that there is legal ground for anything like that, but it is a possibility. For this reason you must encrypt your program using tElock, and include numerous agreement that disassociate you from any damage that program may cause or anything that may happen.

Another thing. Our whole IP address could get blocked by a company who don't wish to have their employees download your software. That means lost business for us. So dont do it directly, instead use a distribution site, such as sourceforge (make it open source), or try www.exetools.com, or via e-mule, anything but the shared servers.

[bobdog]

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Any website that pulls those kind of pranks is not cool. I have hit a few in the past, and dimmit, I reformatted my entire hard drive just because of you dinks. No telling what else you had in store for me, so I report these websites to Symantec for viruses.

OH, let me guess...you also offer drivers that people are looking for, only to piggy back a virus in the zip file.

People like you have caused me headaches in the past. Not cool dude. Go play your games somewhere else. This is a forum for web programmers that want to bring goodness to the world, not malicious scripts.

Get a life.

[vegasgwm]

I wouldn't do that if I were you.
I agree, becuz what you may see as harmless fun can cause many people $100's of dollars. Even a comp. nerd can be fooled, let alone the millions with little pc knowlegde. Imagine faking a hard drive failure. Some may haul their pc to the repair shop and be charged alot of $$(even when there wasn't realy a problem)
I'd say, spyro-u-don't rock- spent your pc knowledge productively and you can make a decent living doing so.;)