5/21/13

Traveling with Charlie


Traveling with Charlie will be offline for awhile in an attempt to prevent it from being used by some rather pathetic people. I'll keep an eye on the sites stats and open it back up once the neanderthals are gone. This site too may need to be taken down.
at 21.5.13

7 comments:

  1. Brett Payne5/21/2013

    Oh dear - sorry to hear that. How odd.

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    1. Tattered and Lost5/21/2013

      All of my sites have been hit by this group, but none as virulent as Charlie. Sometimes you can find specific posts they're linking to and take that down, but this time they're using the entire site.

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  2. Cappuccinoandartjournal.blogspot.com5/21/2013

    This is sad...but I am not even sure what you mean is going on. Hope it is resolved soon.

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    1. Tattered and Lost5/21/2013

      A lot of people are having problems with this site right now. It doesn't actually affect the site, but I find it annoying and disgusting. They try to use a site to drive more to their site. It just makes my skin crawl. So I'll leave Charlie down for a few days and see how it goes. He's being hit the worst because there are really so few people who visit. Charlie is only dear to a few of us.

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  3. Cappuccinoandartjournal.blogspot.com5/21/2013

    Good luck! Hope things get back to normal. (Doesn't Blogger help with this kind of thing?)

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  4. Mike Brubaker5/21/2013

    Could this be a website that shows up on your stat list with an absurd number of hits?

    I've had a big spike myself this past week from one referring URL. I checked it out through Google and it is something called "referer spam" designed to attract clicks from the blogger website owners, but no one else. It's annoying but from what I've read it causes no harm to your site or web security. A lot of people have reported the same thing happening to their blogs this month. It has something to do with image searches. Perhaps Charlie is just more popular than we thought? He does get around a lot.

    There is a good explanation here: http://thenewfr0ntier.blogspot.com/2013/05/miscellaneous-malice-topblogstoriescom.html

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    1. Tattered and Lost5/21/2013

      Yes, that's exactly what it is. I know a lot of us are being hit by it. And I know, supposedly, that it won't do any harm. It just irritates me. I took one blog down completely because of the annoyance of seeing the trash sites hooking on like leaches. This current one is just too irritating. Once Charlie has dropped back to no stats I'll load him back up into the world. It usually takes a few days for their servers to give up.

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