Strangely Perfect

Introduction The 9/11 period, (or 11th September in some places), has been interesting of late with regard to internet marketing and litigation as it applies to certain entities not unfamiliar to these pages. Pacific WebWorks (PWW) A Randy Guffey is named as the class action plaintiff against the “business” of PWW.  The nature of the [...]

Remove Referrals Information from This Website because of Malware Like many blogs, this website has displayed the last few hits (referrals) that it’s received as a kind of ‘live’ activity recorder and a small service back to the referring website.  However, I’ve had to pull this from my front page because over the last few [...]

Introduction I had an interesting referral from an external website early today.  It was, http://kexhoxonxk.iblogger.org/ iblogger.com has a decent WHOIS entry and is USA based.  However, the sub-domain bit is a bit iffy. MyBookFace.net If you follow the link, it’s immediately redirected to http://mybookface.net/ The tagline for this website is: MyBookFace is a friendly social [...]

I’ve Been Pinged from My Own Unknown Sub-Domains! One day I’ll figure how this http protocol and the rest work…. Last night I had some hits looking for a feed and the domain root from http://forum.strangelyperfect.tv/board/ Now this doesn’t exist!  So I got pinged by myself from something that doesn’t exist! In fact I haven’t [...]

It’s happened again! Actually, it’s happened several times but this is the first post on it… While looking at my stats logs for this website, strangelyperfect.tv, I’ve had some incongruous hits from US universities, some of whom should have better I.T. departments, IMHO. Example One Here are four from yesterday – I had two hits [...]

Site Statistics One of the benefits of managing your own website is you can check exactly who’s been visiting your site.  There are various sorts of visit, the most common for most sites being from search engine robots.  If you include these in your statistics, it makes you look really good…. mystimulusmoney.com Another sort are [...]

Now I may like to think I’m a literary genius but I am realistic enough to realise I’m not! So what happened was that I got lots of notional referrals sequentially on one post, all trying to comment at the same time! Then after a few minutes the same would happen to another posting – [...]

“NOD32 has pulled out another nasty from an email that arrived today on one of my spam honeypot addresses.  Unlike last time, this time the identical (to me) message contains a Worm instead of a Trojan as an attachment.  NOD32 identifies it as an exe file inside a zip file called “a variant of Win32/Nuwar [...]

Over the last few weeks I’ve had another type of comment spam – not a lot, just enough to be seen as different.  It arrives as a pingback from various IP addresses and sites. Here’s an example straight from the comment admin area: * Only 29% of UK people are Creditworthy | cool.getfreeinsurance.net/only-29-of-uk-people-are-creditworthy.html | IP: [...]

Not really being a complete propellorhead means I don’t understand all the actions here – but it’s weird! I checked the Crawling Chaos logs this morning and there was a recent referral showing like so: http://192.168.1.2/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID=547496 You’ll see that the network is part of one of the three reserved portions of IP Addresses.  It’s the [...]

Well Thunderbirds are go, anyway… My host ixWebhosting has moved all their servers so the sites have been down for most of the weekend. This has co-incided with the most recent WordPress update so I’ve been a bit busy updating and checking plugin operation.