__/ [ John Bailo ] on Thursday 28 December 2006 19:45 \__
> 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.
Thanks, John. I mentioned this before. I estimate that 80% of the traffic I
received over Christmas was from zombies. Other blogs suffered similar
issues and got reprimanded (or suspended) by the host for something they
cannot control.
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