tons of spam referrer sites listed in my stats
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Looking over my site stats, using awstats provided by my host, I noticed that when I look at the referrer sites, I have a ton of those $@#!* spam sites like viagra and poker. Even have a site for psych exams if you can believe it.
Anyway… what harm, if any, does this pose? If I understand what this stat mean, it just shows sites where someone came from to get to mine, correct? If that is the case, it was probably the spammer?
I have tarpit and comment mod on, so I just delete the spam sitting in comment mod. You’d think spammers would realize after awhile that their spam isn’t going to get linked, wouldn’t you?
Also, in my 404 errors, I see a lot of hits to my cgi bin. Is that someone trying to possibly find something to exploit my site security? Maybe get their hands on a password or something? I’ve also noticed someone keeps pulling up a cfg file in my plugins folder. Maybe for the same reason? Or, it might just be a WP user trying to figure out how to use the plugin?
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks!
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