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This is the strong indication of a poorly designed component :( After clicking on a category in that page (let's say, Printers) and tracking down the media files used in that page I can see that it directly references media files inside the administrator area, like administrator/components/com_zoo/elements/download/assets/images/download_type_doc.png. This should not happen on a properly written extension! Joomla!'s architecture calls for a separation of the public and administrator parts of a component. What Zoo does is load files directly from the administrator part. When you enable the back-end password protection feature in Admin Tools, we create a .htaccess file which requires a password to be requested whenever anyone tries to access anything inside the administrator directory. This is based on the premise that all installed extensions exercise this separation between front- and back-end. Therefore this is not a bug in Admin Tools but an architectural flaw in Zoo. Please contact YooThemes and ask them to address this issue because it ends up degrading the security of your site. If they have more questions on this matter, please ask them to contact me directly. Thanks! :)