[Fedora] Re: Bible referers?

[Doug Stewart]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Doug Stewart wrote:
> 
>> If that's a hit on a blog site, it's probably a comment spammer.  I've 
>> seen them beginning to use either really sophomoric philosophy 
>> statements or Bible verses as the body of their "comments" in order to 
>> try to slip Texas Hold 'em links past my SpamKarma filters.  Good 
>> thing SK catches 'em all... *grin*
> 
> 
>    Nope, it wasn't.  It's showing up across several of my virtual sites 
> now, none of them being a blog nor running any CMS or other blog 
> software.  Not that it bothers me or anything, but I found it 
> interesting to be coming from several different IP addresses (from 
> totally different networks.)  That's why I was wondering if it's a virus 
> that's infecting people and then try to drum up business for the web 
> site in the referrer line or if they have some sort of distributed 
> network that's spamming everything they can find.
> 

Then they're just looking to referrer spam you in the hopes of bumping 
their Google ranking, most likely.

http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/referrer-spam.shtml

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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs
dstewart at atl.lmco.com