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[David Aikema]

Sounds like a spam attack of some sort (I've seen similar stuff in
logs for one of my sites before as well).  The HTTP referer, which is
what I would assume that is what AWstats is picking up on shouldn't be
transmitted unless a link from that page is followed, and even if
someone were to come to your site after visiting a site of that sort,
I don't think that that sort of site would be linking to yours.

David

On 5/4/05, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> At the end of last month, and now this month, I've been getting sites
> in the "referring Sites" section of AWStats that are not exactly the
> kind of sites I want being linked with.  I'm more than happy to see
> sinners come to the website from anywhere - but I just don't quite
> grasp someone coming to my site from (apparently) a "male-strippers"
> site.  Yes I checked.  And yes, it is exactly that. :{  Arrrgghhh!
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this issue before?  Is this a type of
> "spam" attack or phishing scheme (designed to get me to look)?  Is
> there any thing much I can do to eliminate these kinds of "referrals"?
>  My guess is that someone visited my site after visiting this site, so
> it shows up in my referral logs.  I assume the lady (or whomever) is
> having fun.  Any ideas or suggestions?