Referrer [or Referer] Spam

2002-12-01 (Last Modified: 2002-12-01)

Because certain cock-holsters on the Internet seem to think that my Referrer Logs are a great place to place fake referrals to porn sites, I’ve had to research ways to stomp on their itty spammer pee-pees.

Once you’ve found the Referrer-Spammer’s IP address [check your http access logs], it is trivial to add a deny statement to your .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 "Does not exist."

deny from ---.---.---.---

If you only specify a portion of numbers, you will block a whole range.

The scumbags, by the way, were:
adsl-65-42-90-237.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [65.42.90.237], and 12-247-30-8.client.attbi.com [12.247.30.8] .