Spam Attack?
In the past few days I’ve had around a 100x increase in hits to my site…And also a barrage of spam comments coming in.
The hits aren’t coming from any one IP, but they don’t seem to be referred by anywhere (Referrer header is empty). The User-Agent is typically “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)”. I do use some JavaScript traffic tracking on this site, and these hits aren’t showing up, which leads me to think that either hoards of IE users have JavaScript turned off, or this is some new distributed trojan spam attack.
Anybody else noticed this recently?