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  arzki · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 1:25 pm

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  Strange reffer on my blog: http://ubuntutechnical.wordpress.com

  I have reffers comming from this site:
  duckduckgo.com/post.html

  And I think it is a SPAM. Could you remove it so that it doesn’t appear in the statistics anymore.

  Thanks
  Blog url: http://ubuntutechnical.wordpress.com/

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 5:12 pm

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  Howdy,

  Thanks for reporting this – we are aware of this problem and are working hard to find a solution to fix it.

  Some background: what you’re experiencing is called “Referrer Spam”, and it’s an unfortunate side effect of the way statistics tracking works. Spammers take advantage of the referrer logs and visit your blog from phantom URLs that they are actually trying to promote, in the hope that you see them in your logs and click them.

  In the meantime, you can rest assured that there is no security risk here, to you or to you blog. It’s just an annoyance, but one we will hopefully be able to get rid of very soon. However, please don’t click on any of these suspicious links.