phantom referrals
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Undeleted: I don’t think you’re going crazy at all – if you are, so am I because I’ve had the same experience of legit referrer refs being replaced by PRs. Pain in bum doesn’t even begin to cover it … ;-). Bon courage!
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I was excited because the referrer spam nearly went away for a couple days. But now it’s back! I’m now getting phantom referrals from onlinetv69.com, drugrehab.com-of/info, secret-theory.com, handsomely.net, rezekimurah.com, debtfreeforex.com with multiple hits from drugrehab.com-of/info. I am happy to hear the WordPress team is on it but thought I’d provide an update on my blog’s situation in case it’s helpful…
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thetpsreport: part of the problem is they don’t go away if you refrain from clicking on ’em. Blogspot ones can be reported & tend not to return, but ALL the others do – again, and again, and …
Saramyx: I am getting the same ones as you this evening. Legit visitors referred via their blogrolls/comments arriving since are not now showing up on the referrer log.
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Hope we’re not accidentally download a virus of blog hackers
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My blog, towriteistowrite.wordpress.com, is getting referrals from the following phantom (?) sites:
bedticket.com/medical-journal/where-t…
cheaptravelstyle.com/rv/5-generator-s…
rezekimurah.com/jom-diving/open-water…Coincidentally (perhaps), these referrals have occurred since I re-customized my Live Traffic Feed on 3/13/10.
My second blog, whiskertips.wordpress.com, has not received any such referrals. I have not changed Live Traffic Feed on that site.
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Correction to my previous post 3/16/10: My blog whiskertips.wordpress.com IS getting phantom referrals. I have not changed the Live Traffic Feed on that blog, as I had on my other blog, towriteistowrite.wordpress.com. Thanks.
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Update: I’ve not had any bogus referrals for a couple of days now – if this is due to the work of the WP backroom boys and girls, please keep on doing whatever it is you’re doing.
I was just thinking about all this: I get spammed in all of my various email accounts, my phone, on Facebook, on different forums and now it’s happening more and more on Twitter.
I can’t tell you how much I hope WP remains free of all that crap – for the sake of my sanity if nothing else.
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On 3/18/10, http://towriteistowrite.wordpress.com received two new bogus referrals:
theauctiva.com/?m=20100312
free–to–download.blogspot.com/2010/…Neither of my blogs has had any hits at all so far today.
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A couple of phantom-free days – hooray! Thank you, WordPress Support.
Yesterday, tho’ had: blog.kira-review.info/go.php. Today one of the original ones, this time via digg: azlanhussain.com/(string of stuff). Following a strictly hands-off policy with these, er, people … Anyone else still finding ’em? Hope not! -
Still finding them on towriteistowrite.wordpress.com:
3/19/10:
slashingtongue.com/news/looks-like-th…
debtfreeforex.com/forum/index.php?PHP…
3/20/10:
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Hi fellow phantom-sufferers: today’s log shows a visit from auctiva.com. Anybody who sees it, whatever you do don’t click on it (know you probably won’t but …)! It’s been flagged as a Trojan-carrier in the recent past, and suspect to have been infiltrated again. [FYI it’s an e-bay enabler. I have nothing to do with ebay, never used it; don’t visit.]
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I have received a contact form email from a subscriber who is also seeing strange referrals form theauctiva.com
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3/23/10 Referrals to towriteistowrite.wordpress.com from:
cpa.ly/6DI
online-tvshow.com/feed
cpa.ly/6eJ
fast-download-tv.blogspot.com/search/…3/22/10 Referrals from:
cheaptravelstyle.com/backpacking-or-h…
debtfreeforex.com/forum/index.php?PHP…
slashingtongue.com/news/finally-the-h…3/21/10 Referrals from:
cheaptravelstyle.com/travel-tips/trav…
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Timethief: ah, looks like theauctiva.com has been infected again/is being used as vehicle for spam push.
Have had a couple of hits from dig.com/720hdtv… also. Am installing code from projecthoneypot which apparently works to repel these ******s. -
Actual URL = dig.com/http://720hdtv.com; plus another’s shown up = blog.kira-review.info/go.php. So that code doesn’t work, then …
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I’m getting more of this crap again. I’m also fairly certain that the trojan which is causing my laptop to crash every five minutes comes from one of the sites which supposedly sent me a referral.
As a result, I’m now wary of clicking on unfamiliar links in my referrals, meaning that I could be missing out on connecting with people who like my blog enough to link to it.
In the absence of any solutions from WP, any advice?
Yours
One seriously pissed off blogger
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If you think your computer has a trojan virus then you could do a free online check to confirm if it is infected or not and remove any viruses or malware. Most of the virus and trojan scanners in this section do not need to be downloaded or installed, they run from inside your browser. Scroll down to locate “Free Online Virus & Trojan Scanners” > http://www.freebyte.com/antivirus/#onlinescanners
I hope this helps you.
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