Referrer log spam

It ticks me off

[Small Website Guy]

People trying to sell stuff to me are leaving their urls in my referrer logs. They must have some bot going around doing that.

Is there anyway to punish them for their evil spam?

[yowza]

Similar thread is here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[jdMorgan]

Yes:
1) Make sure your log files and stats are password-protected and don't show up in search results (many do).
2) Remember to never buy anything from the log-spammers.
3) Ignore their log file entries with cold disdain.

Jim

[drbrain]

Sadly, the developers of these tools are marketing them to webmasters through the Referer header. It seems the tools change the Referer given by the browser to always point back to the site they're promoting.

I recently spotted a link to such a site in my logs, and found another visitor who has a UA randomizer combined with Referer spamming. You could get fancy with some code to watch too many references to a site and ban them like the bad robots ban scripts, but its probably more trouble than its worth.

[helleborine]

I have a new site with little traffic - 1/10 of my logs are spammers, argh! It's messing up my statistics, it makes it difficult to see the natural, HUMAN traffic patterns.
I've started to use IP block but the same spammers return with new IPs.

Does anyone have a list of spammer IPs? If you do, please consider "sticky-mail"-ing them to me.

Thanks.