This may not be the proper place to address this question, but what the hell.... Can someone tell me a way to determine if my website has been scraped or hijacked? Everything appears fine on my end, but I noticed when looking at the stats today for my site it appears that it has had just a few visits from a foreign porn site whose url shows in my stats section, links from external page, I want nothing to do with those in any shape form or fashion, certainly do not want to be linked to one and I shouldn't be, but if I understand my stats correctly I must be linked to it in some manner..... How can I tell just exactly is going on???
Most likely "referrer spam" basically sites will send fake traffic to as many sites as they can find, using themselves as the referrer. Some sites publish their awstats and other stat programs on the web and from time to time they pickup PR. Free links for the spammers. Probably nothing to worry about. TiGG
If you are running on an Apache server block them using your .htaccess file. Do a Google search on referrer spam. Shannon
The first thing to do is to make sure that your stats aren't publicly accessible. This way, the only unpleasant thing from these referrers that they spoil your stats for you. You can live with that, as long as nobody else can see these links. You can also block some of these requests, as Shannon suggests. Just don't do any redirection, as many posts on the topic suggest - simply forbid these requests and that's it. J.D.