Hi Steven

Paylock generator has been around for a long time. You have the latest version.

Personally, I use the program when creating buy buttons or links for non-digital items because the buttons can be “saved” in the program.

Based on what you’ve told me I don’t think there is anything wrong with the way the program is acting. In fact, although I recieved emails from paypal telling me they were changing all their buttons, I just got another email a couple of hours ago warning me that “all” buttons would be changed sometime in the next 24 hours.

The encryption issue you mention is kind of like an open sore. If you go to some of the geeky forums and ask about encryption, they will tell you that no encrytion is 100% safe. I have many sites and I try to keep an eye for suspicious activity with any of my download links. In fact, I found one the other day.

You’ll find it more likely that someone will take your download link and pass it around the web. Or depending how you have your site set up it could even end up in Google.

If you’re just getting started I would just keep an eye on the activity with your download links. If you have something that is super sensitive I would always use the payment generator at paypal to generate you purchase button. Paypal will always have the latest and greatest encryption…..but like I said, once the customer buys he has access to your download link and the unscrupulous will pass the button around the internet, so encryption really isn’t an issue.

You might be interested in a program called Site Cash Manager, the guy who runs it is very helpful and you can find it at http://www.spgraphic.com/suggests/sitecashmanager.htm its a very comprehensive program and it will protect your downoad links along with allowing you to set up sales that are time limited, quanitity limited and a whole lot more. Don’t be intimidated by it, although it can do a lot, you can use it to do small tasks.

There are a couple of other programs I could suggest but I need to dig up their links if you’re interested.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Best Wishes,

Scott
Subject: Question about Paylock Generator

Hello Scott
I have a question I was hoping you may help with. I have been using the  Paylock Generator for making Paypal buttons. Today when previewing  my
website in Sitespinner (the program I use to upload my site) I noticed
three of the buttons that I created with the Paypal website, not Paylock  Generator had changed from the visa mastercard looking button, to a yellow Paypal button. My other buttons created with Paylock, had no change as they were suppose to. To remedy the situation I just created the changed buttons with Paylock and saved them that way. All the buttons look the same now. After editing and saving everything I previewed my site again without publishing it. This time I clicked on the Paylock Generated buttons, which is all I am using now, with no Paypal site buttons. When I viewed the security info, it said 128 bit  encrytion, instead of 256 as it usually does. After testing the encryption through the Payock generator itself, which showed 256, I  reopened the preview in Sitespinner and viewed the security info again,  which was back to 256. Is this a security issue I should be worried about or a common occurrence?The only thing I have done different to my unpublished web page in Sitespinner before this happening, was to create a page to put photos on  that buyers send me. The photos were scanned with Avast antivirus and A-Squared trojan remover.