About AntiLeech Software

There are several reasons why our anti-leeching software would block a download:

1) You clicked on a link on a site that is not part of the domain. In this case the URL in your browser would not contain the correct information. We do not allow that kind of external linking. This site creates a great deal of traffic and bandwidth costs money. We will not provide the bandwith for other sites so that they can have a great software archive at our expense.

2) You're using a download manager. Download managers usually offer to search for alternative download locations. While this is nice for the user, it's bad for the webmaster because it could be that a download which originated on another site could theoretically still be downloaded from this site, without anybody knowing. But there's a solution to this problem:

Set up your download manager to send an HTTP referer, and when you click on a link on the site the download will be authorized. Here's how you can do this in Getright:

Go to Getright Configuration, under Advanced/Protocol check Send "Referer" in HTTP Request, then select Generated from the download URL.

The setup should be similar for other download managers.

3) Your browser did not send a referer. This normally happens if you right click on a link and select save-as, or if you copy and paste a link into a new browser window and press Enter. It may also be that your browser is set up to not send any referer. Unfortunately we must test for an empty referer or we still have the download manager problem mentioned in 2). But left clicking on a link works just fine.

4) Some software firewalls, for instance the Norton Personal Firewall (which is also part of Norton Internet Security) or ZoneAlarm remove the referer from HTTP requests, which will block any downloads on any site that does a referer check. Hence such options should always be turned off. In Norton you have to go to the Privacy Settings and disable browser privacy (which doesn't really protect your privacy anyway as your IP address will always be logged regardless of that setting). In ZoneAlarm you have to go to Privacy -> Cookie Control -> Custom and uncheck "remove private header information".

5) Software such as AdSubstract also blocks the referer and makes downloads impossible.

We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and hope you understand our reasons for doing so.