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[ysobelle]

I found this link on my web stats page. Does it look familiar to anyone?

http:// ismymovies .com /movie/black /0/4/ 812/0/

DON'T go look-- it needs a codec I'm not about to download even if it weren't an .exe. I've just gotten four hits off of it in the last 24 hours, and I'm baffled. What the hell is it? And how does it send people to my website?


ETA: Thanks, y'all!

Comments

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

It's a fake movie page and the "codec" is a virus or spyware or something. But how it's sending people to your site I don't know.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Alas, that's what I feared.

And I was just thinking about you-- I finally started to get back in-world. You still hanging about?

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Though work has been somewhat intense lately.

[daemionfox.livejournal.com]

It's not sending people to your site. You're getting referrer spam. Some bot tells your site that it's coming from this server. A lot of places publish their referrer stats, so this is a way to drive traffic to their virus/trojan/whatever. (Google picks up the links on the referrer page, then that site gets attached to your content in their cross-referencer)

[sterling2905.livejournal.com]

I don't know thing one about this stuff, I do know I was silly enough to click on the link in your post and got trapped in that site and had to shut down Explorer just to get out... Love you, but you might want to think about removing the link now that the very smart people above answered your question. Other less computer savy people like me might get stuck too.