How Do I Keep Spyware Traffic Off My Site?
 

I’ve been getting strange emails from people that are pissed because www.jays-xxx-links.com is popping up on their browsers. My site is clean. I run no spyware. Honestly, I can’t see what anyone would want to pop my site – seeing as I don’t trade any traffic.

Anyone have advice on this?

If these pissed people are Germans then you've probably got the same arseholes as me fucking about with your email.

It's all part of a seemingly pointless spoofing scam.

I say seemingly pointless but somebody who can read German might suggest otherwise :)

It's not your site man. They have the scumware coded to detect your page. Growing pains :(

Put a link up to one of the many nice free tools out there to clean up machines, and a disclaimer denouncing the scummer's actions, along with a brief explaination.

You don't need the rev from the sales of a program like that, and SELLING one to infected surfers is gonna make you look guilty as hell. Don't listen to those penny pinchers trying to get their hands on every nickle over there :) That's just greed talking. You'll make more from their loyalty in the long run.

AST

As a Mac user non of this stuff affects me but it does affect my business if it fucks with my surfers so any suggestions for links?

I use and really like "hijackthis". It's not really a tool that I'd give to the avg. surfer, it gets right into the registry and weeds out what you tell it to.

It also weeds out stuff you need, if you tell it to.

Try to get a copy of the malware, the trojan or whatever it is that is delivering the code to pop up Jays.

That way you can name the code that is attacking you- if more is learned about the writer you may eventually find out who is doing it.

Kinda hard to do, the malware may be one of dozens on an infected machine. Maybe find out where the complainers have been, work backwards to find the source of the infection and the attack.

Anyhow, if you know the type of attacking code, you can tell them the best removers to try.

I have found spybot to be one of the best spyware/adware removers around...its free and you can offer a link to it to your surfers so they can clean up their machines for no cost and then you also seem like a really nice guy so maybe (just maybe) they will bookmark your site and come back and make you some money!

Anyhoo....the link is http://www.spybot.info/ (don't go to the .com/.net versions as those ones apparantly try to install spyware themselves!)

cheers,
Luke

Jay - don't know which you're getting traffic from - I know that a lot of the programs return the first 5 or so search results for a keyword from Google when they do a search if the malware doesn't have a "programmed result" for that search term.

I would definitely agree that giving links to lavasoft or spybot and a short explanation - and of course very near to that a bookmark button :) is good biz

Spyware by Webroot is a damned fine piece of software..I have them all and I'll be damned if it doesnt catch what the other 2 dont..

also, a link to the cwshredder site would be a good idea too
that's the fix for the damned trojan that hijacks your browser also
www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked
this site seems to be down at the moment but they are usually up and runing

Here is the best solution I could think of. See:
http://www.jays-xxx-links.com

Hey, that's great. That should work really well and should add to the loyalty factor :)

Jay - it might be a good idea to make that email addie on your page a "mailto:" tag instead of a href tag so that people can actually email ya :)

LOL :)

If you want you can use this to kill spam spiders:

That's a good way of dealing with it Jay.

If you ever find out more about the origins of the attack, let us know. It's a interesting twist on the whole scumware/malware thing. We might see more stuff like this in the future, as the professional cheaters get deprived of market space by the new wave of controlled submission/anti-cheater technology.