Comments on: Referrer Spam Attack

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:46:34 +0000

just published a crude but effective fix for those running B2 Evolution blogs. Course I'm the kinda guy who breaks eggs with a sledgehammer so it might not be your style - but may be of help to some. permalink here - http://technicallyoverboard.com/blog/index.php?title=referral_spamstorm_b2_evo_fix&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

By: Alfons' ChangeLog

Alfons' ChangeLog — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:32:21 +0000

More Victims Of “Referer” Spam

I talked a bit about my experience with referer spam, here, here, here and here.

There’s slowly word getting out from other victims:The flood of inbound traffic from this spammer’s zombie network is so heavy that it operates like a DOS attack: consu…

By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:02:15 +0000

Caveat Lector belongs to someone of the female persuasion, actually. :)

By: O'DonnellWeb

O'DonnellWeb — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:58:40 +0000

.htaccess is my friend

Happiness is looking at your log file and seeing hundreds of referrer spam attempts with a 403 error code. Paulo…

By: Ann Elisabeth

Ann Elisabeth — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:39:43 +0000

I called. They’ve had quite a few calls lately…

Thomas Reece isn’t real of course. I called to see if they knew what was going on, and they did. They are reporting it. I just hope they go as far as they can!

By: Ann Elisabeth's blog

Ann Elisabeth's blog — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:37:15 +0000

My referrers

I thought I’d give back by putting up the legitimate referrers in my log, those linking to the blog. Some may be from me posting comments, while others are links in blog entries. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/01/16/RefererBS Got an amazin…