Robots All Over the Place
Charles Johnson
Tue Oct 11, 2005 at 8:53 pm PDT • Views: 374
Behind the scenes, there is a pretty amazing swarm of robots hitting our Most Recent Referrers page tonight, using zombie servers (servers infected with a previous virus that leaves a back door open) with a range of proxy IP addresses, many in China, to try to plant URLs among our referrers that link to the usual dreary list of illicit pharmaceutical products. This kind of idiot spamming is a constant annoyance, but tonight’s robot swarm is extraordinary for its sheer volume.
Frank says: