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[Webmasters] TOPSITES Referrer Spam getting up my nerves | Share Commons: There may be many who already know what I’m talking about, but for those who are still in the blues, when I say referrer spam, it means that when I check my web traffic, I see the referring URL of the website from where a visitor landed on my site. Lately, I have noticed an increasing trend of referring URLs that have nothing to do with my website.

[Web Hosting Talk Australia] Aim Trust - High referral rate in site stats. - Web Hosting Talk ...: A referral is a referral. In all probability, it is just referer log spam - a bot is loading your page with a fake referer in hopes of a free link from a publically published log.

[Learning Movable Type] Concerning Spam | Security | Learning Movable Type: In addition to this plugin, there are several other options you can implement to help stem the tide of spam. Note that the spammers are constantly improving their methods to game the system, requiring constant vigilance on the part of the MT community to keep coming up with new ways to block them.

[AskApache Web Fire] Fight Blog Spam with Apache: SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Web\ Image\ Collector" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Web\ Sucker" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebAuto" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebBandit" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Webclipping.com" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebCopier" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebEMailExtrac.*" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebEnhancer" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebFetch" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebGo\ IS" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Web.Image.Collector" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebLeacher" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebmasterWorldForumBot" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebReaper" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebSauger" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebSite" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Website\ eXtractor" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Website\ Quester" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Webster" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebStripper" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebWhacker" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WebZIP" bad_bot hybrid,You may reduce twenty-one lines down to a single line with the following: SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent ^Web bad_bot

[Left Justified] No More Suspect Traffic → Left Justified: In my case, each wave of spam correlated to a referral from a domain whose index was a holder page. Once I checked my logs against the timestamps on the comments, I knew that this site was responsible for the attacks.

[TechMynd] Stop Comment Spam from WordPress Blog Completely - Security - TechMynd: Use WP-Ban, a very powerful WordPress plugin which helps you easily ban users by IP, IP Range, host name and referrer url from visiting your WordPress’s blog and prevent spam from ever reaching your comments. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referrer url tries to visit your blog.

[Marius Milcher] The Phantom QQ829.com: Widespread unknown chinese web activity ...: After a lot of research it seems that this may be a new variant of trojan.adclicker, as reported by Threatexpert, which places cookies on the user’s computer then generates false hits on various websites and displays malicious adverts over the top of a website’s pages. All these hits appear to be referred to websites by the url above which is why webmasters are seeing traffic from this link in their logs.

[INBOX International inc. » Announcements] WP Highrise Contact now available | INBOX International inc.: I ask because my current contact form is frequently bombarded by spammers who “want to get my website on the first page of Google!” I’d hate to have them inadvertently make a mess of my Highrise account that I’d have to clean up…

[Brainstorms and Raves - Recent Post Excerpts] Behind the Scenes with Apache's .htaccess - Brainstorms and Raves ...: Fabulous listings here with descriptions and links. The categorizes include: Search engine robots and others, Browsers, Link Checkers, Link monitors and bookmark managers, Validators, FTP clients and download managers, Research projects, Software packages, Offline browsers and other agents, Other miscellaneous agents, Sites that regularly visit, Other useful sites, some fakers.

[Comments for www.mapelli.info] .htaccess Hacking for Fun and Profit: the page that took the user to wp-comments-post). A spammer access directly the wp-comments-post.php file, having no referral or an outside (not from your domain) referral.

[RagePank SEO] Stopping Manual Spam on your Blog | RagePank SEO: SEOs and web design agencies often use a screenshot of Google results to show off their wonderful rankings. I hadn't really considered the copyright implications of doing this, until I stumbled...

[Comments for justaddwater.dk] justaddwater.dk | 100000 Blog Spam Comments: I’m using Spam Karma 2 instead but lately a few comments with just random letters in have gotten through. I think I’ll try some of your ideas.

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