Category: Internet
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A new form of Comment spam? – url shorteners and redirection?
This is interesting. This blog just had a comment which, at first glance, looked normal. The link first runs through URL shortening service tinyurl.com. That in turn redirects it to adfly (http://adf.ly) which is where it becomes interesting. Adfly is an advertising system. Instead of linking directly to the destination, you link with a custom…
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Peer to Peer downloading (Torrents) and network problems
Recently my parents had some friends visit. They had a laptop with them and asked to use the internet. We’ve not problem with that so let them connect…. except when they connected they were running a peer-to-peer file sharing program. If you’re here, you probably know what that is. A way of sharing large files…
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Bad Bot go away!
Sigh. Here I am at work on Tuesday morning. List of jobs to do being interrupted by our web server triggering over load alarms. Actually, it’s been doing it for quite a while, but I’ve never sat down to analyse the logs to find what’s happening to trigger the alarm (our gandi.net virtual server is…