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by Alec Muffett

adminshop …

So this is how I am receiving all this referrerspam, both for pr0n and for Adminshop.com itself; the pity for them is that I don’t publish referrer data so it all goes down a black hole…

[www.adminshop.com]

Reffy is a Windows-based mass referrer spammer, which means that it will make a connection to a buttload of sites of your choosing with any referrer URL and User-Agent that you specify. This accomplishes several things. Firstly, it generates webmaster traffic from webmasters checking their referral statistics. Secondly, it boosts your link popularity and thereby your Google PR, because a lot of sites have public referral stats with linked entries. Reffy operates on textfiles with URL-lists, and a textfile of 3047 active blog websites which you can use to start getting free traffic and PR right away is included!

<sigh>

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Comments

10 responses to “adminshop …”

  1. bartb
    re: adminshop …

    maybe you could add one of those anti-bot validation things (show number or word in an image, have people type that into field) to the feedback mechanism – that might make it hard enough for the thing…

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  2. alecm
    re: adminshop …

    that’d fix non-sweatshop automated comment spamming, yea, but the referrer poisoning is passive, a feature of each and every HTTP fetch irrespective of CGI, POST, or GET.

    It even works on static content.

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  3. bartb
    re: adminshop …

    I don’t see the point, really, of doing referrer spamming — it can’t be too difficult for google to filter out referrer logs (as most will have a similar format, there are in the end only so many tools for visualising/publishing those).

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  4. alecm
    re: adminshop …

    you expect logic to work on spammers? 😎

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  5. bartb
    re: adminshop …

    Ah right.

    My mistake (again) 🙂

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  6. J
    re: adminshop …

    You people are clueless. While you complain about your miserable existences they are laughing all the way to the bank. It’s just a little link, think you could just get over it?

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  7. alecm
    re: adminshop …

    Hoorah! I say that you are a troll and I claim my $5.00!

    As for referrer spammers, they’re vermin trying to polute my website with their links to boost porn. What God-fearing Texan such as yourself (?) could support that? 8->

    (in response to a comment from cs170116-55.sport.rr.com.)

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  8. bartb
    re: adminshop …

    Mmmm.

    So here we have a troll (where’s my $5?) that fails to see the difference between some banter about computers and existence.

    I would recommend you read (or, if that causes difficulty, have someone read and explain to you) something like plato.stanford.edu/entries/existence/, which you might then wish to compare with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer.

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  9. 3mpire.net
    re: adminshop …

    So… don’t link to them in your blog, either. You rank in the top 10 in google results for adminshop and you know people are clicking that link…?!

    http http://www.google.com/search?q=adminshop&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

    if we’re going to google bomb something, use this link instead:

    http visualintensity.com/adminshop-com/

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  10. alecm
    re: adminshop …

    Mmmm… that’s a bind of a moral question:

    1) let people see me dissing them, or…

    2) raise their pagerank.

    What do *you* reckon? To me it does make a bit of a nonsense of this Google/URL/nofollow thing…

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