contact or mail or email or phone or fax or tel site ...

This search term is number one on my searched key phrases:
"contact or mail or email or phone or fax or tel site www.nerdlance.com"

Has anyone else seen this? Are people just looking to contact me, or
looking for forms to try to run some spamming scripts on?

--
Dustin Davis
Freelance Portal: http://www.nerdlance.com

Dustin wrote:

This search term is number one on my searched key phrases:
"contact or mail or email or phone or fax or tel site
www.nerdlance.com"

Has anyone else seen this? Are people just looking to contact me, or
looking for forms to try to run some spamming scripts on?

Well, this phrase brings up no results in Google. So, where do they come
from with this search? Also, if you are concerned about someone using this
phrase to do Google penetration test on your site, it is too detailed a
phrase for the purpose. Someone would have to actually be on the site to
know if your "contact us" page contains that phrase and that defeats the
purpose of using Google for the test(hack). This is not to say that it is
not a phony referrer that someone is giving you while scraping your site,
so if it's coming up over and over, I would try to catch the IP it is
coming from and then decide what to do with it. If it becomes annoying,
you could just block the IP.

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__/ [Antipodean Bucket Farmer] on Thursday 22 December 2005 21:36 \__

In article <IemdnTBzFrnSCDfeRVn-ig (AT) comcast (DOT) com>,
dustin.davis (AT) gmail (DOT) com says...
This search term is number one on my searched key phrases:
"contact or mail or email or phone or fax or tel site www.nerdlance.com"

Has anyone else seen this? Are people just looking to contact me, or
looking for forms to try to run some spamming scripts on?


Sounds legitimate. They may want to know who owns the
site, but don't know how to find a whois search.

When spammers are looking for abuse-opportunities, they
will request certain filenames. There will be a scan
for common/default .cgi and .html files related to
form-mail, BBSs/forums, Tell-A-Friend, etc. I think
that there may also be some specifically Microsoft IIS
features, which may be randomly requested even if you
are really on *nix/Apache.

The requests won't come through a search engine,
though. Their scanner will just use your domain plus a
list of standard paths.

BTW, I tried to view your site a couple times, but it
made Mozilla crash. Maybe that is why people want to
contact you?

Good point, but neither Mozilla nor Firefox seem to crash when I open the
front page ( http://www.nerdlance.com/ ). A few days ago I contacted some-
one whose popular site made Firefox crash (tried from different comput-
ers). I had to guess the E-mail address, which I fortunately I did right.
It bounced after the first guess though. Got it right the second time.

Roy

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www.1-script.com wrote:

Dustin wrote:



This search term is number one on my searched key phrases:
"contact or mail or email or phone or fax or tel site
www.nerdlance.com"


Has anyone else seen this? Are people just looking to contact me, or
looking for forms to try to run some spamming scripts on?


Well, this phrase brings up no results in Google. So, where do they come
from with this search? Also, if you are concerned about someone using this
phrase to do Google penetration test on your site, it is too detailed a
phrase for the purpose. Someone would have to actually be on the site to
know if your "contact us" page contains that phrase and that defeats the
purpose of using Google for the test(hack). This is not to say that it is
not a phony referrer that someone is giving you while scraping your site,
so if it's coming up over and over, I would try to catch the IP it is
coming from and then decide what to do with it. If it becomes annoying,
you could just block the IP.

If you change the phrase to read more like this it works:
"contact OR mail OR email OR phone OR fax OR tel site:www.nerdlance.com"

I'm guessing awstats just displays everything lower case.

--
Dustin Davis
Freelance Portal: http://www.nerdlance.com

Antipodean Bucket Farmer wrote:

BTW, I tried to view your site a couple times, but it
made Mozilla crash. Maybe that is why people want to
contact you?

What part of the site made Mozilla crash? Maybe you have a bad
extension. I used to have Tabbrowser Extension installed and it would
cause some funny stuff to happen (never crashed though). Once I switched
to Tab Mix Plus everything worked much better.

--
Dustin Davis
Freelance Portal: http://www.nerdlance.com

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

__/ [Antipodean Bucket Farmer] on Thursday 22 December 2005 21:36 \__


In article <IemdnTBzFrnSCDfeRVn-ig (AT) comcast (DOT) com>,
dustin.davis (AT) gmail (DOT) com says...

This search term is number one on my searched key phrases:
"contact or mail or email or phone or fax or tel site www.nerdlance.com"

Has anyone else seen this? Are people just looking to contact me, or
looking for forms to try to run some spamming scripts on?


Sounds legitimate. They may want to know who owns the
site, but don't know how to find a whois search.

When spammers are looking for abuse-opportunities, they
will request certain filenames. There will be a scan
for common/default .cgi and .html files related to
form-mail, BBSs/forums, Tell-A-Friend, etc. I think
that there may also be some specifically Microsoft IIS
features, which may be randomly requested even if you
are really on *nix/Apache.

The requests won't come through a search engine,
though. Their scanner will just use your domain plus a
list of standard paths.

BTW, I tried to view your site a couple times, but it
made Mozilla crash. Maybe that is why people want to
contact you?


Good point, but neither Mozilla nor Firefox seem to crash when I open the
front page ( http://www.nerdlance.com/ ). A few days ago I contacted some-
one whose popular site made Firefox crash (tried from different comput-
ers). I had to guess the E-mail address, which I fortunately I did right.
It bounced after the first guess though. Got it right the second time.

Roy

Well I have a contact form link at the bottom of every page. Is that not
obvious enough?

--
Dustin Davis
Freelance Portal: http://www.nerdlance.com

__/ [Dustin] on Saturday 24 December 2005 13:09 \__

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [Antipodean Bucket Farmer] on Thursday 22 December 2005 21:36 \__


In article <IemdnTBzFrnSCDfeRVn-ig (AT) comcast (DOT) com>,
dustin.davis (AT) gmail (DOT) com says...

This search term is number one on my searched key phrases:
"contact or mail or email or phone or fax or tel site www.nerdlance.com"

Has anyone else seen this? Are people just looking to contact me, or
looking for forms to try to run some spamming scripts on?


Sounds legitimate. They may want to know who owns the
site, but don't know how to find a whois search.

When spammers are looking for abuse-opportunities, they
will request certain filenames. There will be a scan
for common/default .cgi and .html files related to
form-mail, BBSs/forums, Tell-A-Friend, etc. I think
that there may also be some specifically Microsoft IIS
features, which may be randomly requested even if you
are really on *nix/Apache.

The requests won't come through a search engine,
though. Their scanner will just use your domain plus a
list of standard paths.

BTW, I tried to view your site a couple times, but it
made Mozilla crash. Maybe that is why people want to
contact you?


Good point, but neither Mozilla nor Firefox seem to crash when I open the
front page ( http://www.nerdlance.com/ ). A few days ago I contacted some-
one whose popular site made Firefox crash (tried from different comput-
ers). I had to guess the E-mail address, which I fortunately I did right.
It bounced after the first guess though. Got it right the second time.

Roy


Well I have a contact form link at the bottom of every page. Is that not
obvious enough?

Explicit form? That'll invite spam in due time. The level of daily spam
will grow linearly (some would say exponentially) if you put it in each
page rather than link to a central contact page. Also, what if you needed
to change your E-mail address? Change and replace applied to all files?
Duplication is not recommended unless you use Server Side Includes (SSI)
to append a footer.

Best wishes,

Roy

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http://Schestowitz.com | SuSE Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
3:20pm up 13 days 22:31, 11 users, load average: 0.28, 0.48, 0.53

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

__/ [Dustin] on Saturday 24 December 2005 13:09 \__


Roy Schestowitz wrote:

__/ [Antipodean Bucket Farmer] on Thursday 22 December 2005 21:36 \__



In article <IemdnTBzFrnSCDfeRVn-ig (AT) comcast (DOT) com>,
dustin.davis (AT) gmail (DOT) com says...


This search term is number one on my searched key phrases:
"contact or mail or email or phone or fax or tel site www.nerdlance.com"

Has anyone else seen this? Are people just looking to contact me, or
looking for forms to try to run some spamming scripts on?


Sounds legitimate. They may want to know who owns the
site, but don't know how to find a whois search.

When spammers are looking for abuse-opportunities, they
will request certain filenames. There will be a scan
for common/default .cgi and .html files related to
form-mail, BBSs/forums, Tell-A-Friend, etc. I think
that there may also be some specifically Microsoft IIS
features, which may be randomly requested even if you
are really on *nix/Apache.

The requests won't come through a search engine,
though. Their scanner will just use your domain plus a
list of standard paths.

BTW, I tried to view your site a couple times, but it
made Mozilla crash. Maybe that is why people want to
contact you?


Good point, but neither Mozilla nor Firefox seem to crash when I open the
front page ( http://www.nerdlance.com/ ). A few days ago I contacted some-
one whose popular site made Firefox crash (tried from different comput-
ers). I had to guess the E-mail address, which I fortunately I did right.
It bounced after the first guess though. Got it right the second time.

Roy


Well I have a contact form link at the bottom of every page. Is that not
obvious enough?


Explicit form? That'll invite spam in due time. The level of daily spam
will grow linearly (some would say exponentially) if you put it in each
page rather than link to a central contact page. Also, what if you needed
to change your E-mail address? Change and replace applied to all files?
Duplication is not recommended unless you use Server Side Includes (SSI)
to append a footer.

Best wishes,

Roy

No, it's link to the contact for on the footer of each page.

--
Dustin Davis
Freelance Portal: http://www.nerdlance.com