How to Get Rid of Referrer Spam?

wikinerd asks: "I have recently opened my own community website. Everything was fine until spammers found it, which happened quite quickly. As usual they filled up my mailboxes, but SpamAssassin can take care of that when it is needed. Then, they discovered my blog and my wikis and employed their bots to fill them up with spam comments. I solved this problem by moderating all comments. Now, however, they employed another evil trick: Referrer spam. They caused my webserver statistics to grow up by orders of magnitude by making their stupid websites to show up on my referrer lists. Unfortunately now my webserver usage statistics are full of viagra, poker, casino, porn, spyware, and pharmacy sites. I am afraid that this is a problem I cannot solve with the knowledge and the tools I have at the moment. So, I came here to ask Slashdot readers: How can I fight referrer spam and what tools are available in a GNU/Linux environment to ensure clean and spam-free usage statistics?"

Comments

Re:Did you google before posting this?

[BoomerSooner]

For those of you out there that still cannot figure it out. Ask slashdot is for the poster but also can provide relevant information to other people that didn't think of the problem in the same way. For example, I do not host any blogs at my company but if I decided to I would have this question and answer set as a good reference (in addition to googling).

Googling info isn't always the best, frequently people contribute things to this blog that you cannot duplicate by a simple query on google.

And last but not least you can always turn ask slashdot off in your preferences....

So for the last fucking time: YES HE CAN GOOGLE IT BUT SHE DECIDED TO ASK SLASHDOT INSTEAD. Move on.