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I use RSS feeds all the time on the Mac and have for some time been looking for a good (and free) RSS reader for the Mac. I also have Windows XP SP2 installed and running simultaneously on the PowerBook (thanks to the magic of Virtual PC) but I only switch to XP when I absolutely have to (to run SQL Server Enterprise Manager, for instance).

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I use Mac OS X as my main OS (Operating System) on my Powerbook 15″. So Lycos spams us to get us to run a program which would almost certainly contravene the AUP’s of our ISPs in order to rob bandwidth from spammers? I’ve lost count of how many wrongs we’re talking about here! Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t pushing adverts to people without their consent in an underhand fashion like this considered Spam? The domain opens in a new window, even in tabbed browsers, and then loads in a page hidden behind the new window “Our offers” from Lycos. Apparently Starring were contacted by Spray (a Lycos company in Sweden) to get more people to start using Spray‚Äôs e-mail service. It all sounds lovely (in a 2 wrongs DO make a right kinda way) until you look a little further and discover that the domain is registered to Starring Ltd AB – a Swedish Marketing company. There are Windows and Mac OS 9 and OS X versions available. It is targeted at spam sites (identified by Spamcop) Lycos claims, where the site isn’t hosting banner ads and therefore won’t benefit from hits – rather the increased network traffic will, in theory, cost them. The Register have posted a story saying Lycos have launched a screensaver which is designed to utilise the bandwidth of spammers and therefore slow down (but critically not stop as this would be a ddos and therefore illegal) the spammers networks.

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In the meantime, if you find yourself unable to access it, feel free to browse my own effort – a lightly edited version of Joe’s file. I have emailed Joe to ask if this is expected behavour. htaccess file above appears to be re-directing to. htacess modifications will eliminate a lot of this too. I have always moderated comments on my blogs but it is still a pain to be receiving emails about spam comments daily – which then have to be deleted. If you would like to check out a copy of the. htaccess file by hand so I am interested to see how it will work out for me. htaccess file follwing the tips on this site and using some of Joe Maller’s sample.

htaccess file to exclude the majority of offenders.

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Add the following line:ĭisallow: /Insert Logfile Analyser folder path here/Īfter a little further digging I found an article on how to modify my.

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The first and most basic, is to password protect the Log File analyser folder.Īs added protection, a line can be added to the robots.txt file instructing search engines not to look in the log file analyser folder. Luckily there are a few simple steps we can take to combat this. If the report is not password protected, then this is found by search-engines and it increases the page-ranking of the spammers’ site.

Therefore, if someone appears to come to my site from, there is a link to that domain automatically created in my AwStats file report. The idea behind Log File Spam is that Log File analysers, like AwStats, often create html based reports including hyperlinks to referrers. I monitor the traffic regularly and recently started to notice that my site was apparently being linked to by some very strange sounding sites – Online Poker sites and Online Pharmacies!Ī quick bit of investigation (and a quick word of explanation from FrankP) told me that I was the victim of Log File Spam. I use AwStats to monitor traffic on the site.

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