Are spammers (spam-bots) active on Smugmug right now?

flyingdutchie · February 5, 2009

Hi everyone,

Something is hitting this page of mine www.streetsofboston.com/gallery/234270_ntcXV/1/46817961_m84Zu for over 2300 times right now, about every other seconds. It used to go to my gallery-page for the picture with id=46817961, which i just have removed (copied the picture and deleted the original).

I even made my gallery password protected for a little bit, which did not help. As of now, they're still at it. Are they trying a DoS on smugmug? Or trying to post tons of spam-comments...?

I don't think they try to steal any picture, but it's annoying :-)

Below is the data I have from them:

VISITOR ANALYSIS 
Referring Link [URL="http://www.streetsofboston.com/gallery/234270_ntcXV"]http://www.streetsofboston.com/gallery/234270_ntcXV[/URL] 
Host Name ppp-69-231-8-232.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net 
IP Address 69.231.8.232 [Label IP Address] 
Country United States 
Region California 
City Los Angeles 
ISP At&t Internet Services 
Returning Visits 0 
Visit Length 33 mins 33 secs 
VISITOR SYSTEM SPECS 
Browser Firefox 3.0.5 
TOR SYSTEM SPECS[B]Browser[/B]Firefox 3.0.5
...
...
with thousands of the following entries
5th February 2009 23:29:22 [URL="http://www.streetsofboston.com/gallery/234270_ntcXV"]www.streetsofboston.com/gallery/234270_ntcXV[/URL]
                           [URL="http://www.streetsofboston.com/gallery/234270_ntcXV/1/46817961_m84Zu"]www.streetsofboston.com/gallery/234270_ntcXV/1/46817961_m84Zu[/URL]