{"id":18,"date":"2004-08-22T23:34:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T22:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp\/2004\/08\/annoyances\/"},"modified":"2013-05-28T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T22:40:08","slug":"annoyances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/annoyances\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoyances"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are any kind of a geek, you’ll be checking your web site’s access_log on a semi-regular basis to get an idea of who is linking to you.\u00a0 Call it an ego trip if you must \ud83d\ude42\u00a0but, of late, it has become a little more annoying.<\/p>\n

You see, spammers have started “referer spamming” (sic) where they spam your referRer logs with URLs that don’t really link to your site in order to get link backs, con people into visiting the URLs, or hopefully find some sites that publish their web site log stats\/analysis.<\/p>\n

I know it is tempting to believe that jennaloveshack.com or somesuch loves to link to your pages, but this really screws up the logs.\u00a0 And, so I have taken to firewalling the offenders and it is proving remarkably effective.\u00a0 So for your perusing pleasure, the “bad guys” list provided in PeerGuardian format (which I convert to ipfw firewall rules):<\/p>\n

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Link Referrer Spammer:66.6.223.190-66.6.223.190
\nCare Initiatives linkref spammer 123gotcash:63.227.76.25-63.227.76.25
\nLinkref spammer:66.119.34.39-66.119.34.39
\nLinkref spammer:216.104.196.225-216.104.196.225
\nLinkref spammer:212.253.2.204-212.253.2.204
\nthebestofnet.com spammer:194.228.211.200-194.228.211.207
\nlinkref spam:148.244.150.52-148.244.150.52
\nPossible linkref spammer:195.244.37.80-195.244.37.80
\nHacked \/ scanner machine:80.109.48.242-80.109.48.242
\nwhois.sc \/ nameintelligence “bot” ref spam:64.246.160.0-64.246.191.255
\npetalsnetwork.com\/se\/coral-springs-florists spammer:211.157.8.41-211.157.8.41
\nteens-photo.com spam:12.22.85.3-12.22.85.3
\nteens-photo.com spam:12.33.10.164-12.33.10.164
\nrefspam:211.157.8.44-211.157.8.44
\nrefspam:209.44.12.250-209.44.12.250
\ncatagoryhound.com linkspamming their own service:205.236.189.0-205.236.189.255
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Since I added firewalling to those networks\/ips, my referer log is much cleaner and my irregular ego boost can continue largely uninterrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are any kind of a geek, you’ll be checking your web site’s access_log on a semi-regular basis to get an idea of who is linking to you.\u00a0 Call it an ego trip if you must \ud83d\ude42\u00a0but, of late, it has become a little more annoying. You see, spammers have started “referer spamming” (sic) … <\/p>\n

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