Hovering over links causes hits on my blog
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I asked yesterday (no solution), but now back with more information, so:
PROBLEM
– im logged on to my blog
– i move mouse over a link (pointing to a post in my blog) on my startpage
– a few seconds later i get a hit on this post (which i see on stats as well as feedjit).DETAILS
** it seems, this happens only, when “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks” (in Discussion Settings is checked/switched on)
** There are three american locations for them this happens.
** They all run on Linux, with unknown browser.
** The posts/links in question havent been updated very recently.
** The posts/links all are on my blog.
** As soon as a hit came in, it will take approx 3 hours until i can reproduce this ‘mouse-over-hit-thing’ for the same(!) link again. (and i’m quite sure, this ‘time-delay’ started rather recently; before it caused a hit at any time…)
** when i switch off the Pingback-thing (see above in ‘Discussion’-section), i have to restart the browser to have the hits stopping, refreshing it doesnt do the trick.
** i checked online: kaspersky, eset, ad-aware, webroot — no virus found, all cookies deleted…
** on my webpage one of those ‘locations’ once left a ‘Comment’, in the dashboard it says “Pingback on Victim: Gabriel Ferez”, then a snippet of the text, and two IP adresses, one from US, the other from Switzerland.WEBSITE
http://scrafen.wordpress.com
good examples make the links right under the pic of the post (on the homepage) “in court”, text “Collection of statements”Is this any normal ? – that even the information i did hover over a link is sent to some receiver ?
tia
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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sorry, forgot to add something important:
it seems the ‘preview’ has to switch on, before the post is hit.
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Update:
The case
– I’m NOT logged on to my blogThen:
– the previews look different:
(a) it shows the website cap of the post
(b) or it contains only text, titled : “RSS: <title of the posting>… <further text of the posting>.Effect:
– only the post of case (a) gets a hit, seconds later, as usualy
– but this time, it comes from another american location (browser firefox, OS unknown)Maybe I just have some strange combination of settings, in IE8 and/or the postings, the blog (..) ?
Can you please let me know, if you have any idea, what I could look up to prevent this ‘user’ or whatever else it is from nerving me on mouse moves ?
today i checked the feedjit live traffic, of feedjit’s ‘own’ users…
strangely – or not – all those guys (same locations, same linux/unknown browser, same firefox/unknown OS) showed up there regulary… so every 15 – 30 minutes, always as ‘new’ user, not returning customer…Also, it seems, the ‘Discussion’-Widget-setting: “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)” doesn’t matter/change anything at all.
Its switched off, but doesnt prevent any ‘bot'(?) coming along… -
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