Ok, started to notice a dramtic and sudden increase in traffic to my site yesterday. Turns out that all of these folks were headed to the same place at this host:
/index.php?disp=stats
So, when I checked this out, they were all indicating referrals from the usual illicit medication and adult sites.
<sigh> More trackback and comment spam.
Now, I know that this page exists in b2evolution, and it is a way for visitors to view my traffic stats. However, a link to this page does not exist in my main display page. The only link to my stats is to my StatCounter stats.
Enter mod_rewite.
A simple rule disposes with these morons.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} disp=stats
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.pierzchala.com:9080/ [R,L,NS]
Please do not attempt to load the redirected URL; you will get nothing. NADA! That port is set to be dropped by iptables, effectively hanging the client end as it attempts to make a TCP connection.
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 -s 0/0 --dport 9080 -j DROP
I use iptables to handle a lot of these morons. As the only people who view this page are infected with some virus or spyware, then I feel no shame in tying up their systems.