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Re: W3Counter Global Web Stats December 17, 2006

After takin' a swig o' grog, John Bailo belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Additionally, in recent days, there has been a rise in DDOS attacks and
>> comment SPAM. I had ~50,000 page requests in my main site on some days, most
>> of which came from Windows zombies (Windows/IE). How do these fit into the
>> stats?
>
> Holy crap.  I never thought of that.   The reason they would want to 
> keep bots in business is to artificially inflate their Windows numbers!
>
> Sending all these HTML emails with links.
>
> That is the single best insight I've gotten from COLA.

Well, it's about time!  We've been harping on it for quite awhile.

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