Odd log activity - unnecessary bandwith consumption?

New to serious web hosting, bandwidth exhausted

[Leggie]

I'm rather new to all this serious web hosting business, so I'd be glad of your help.

I recently set up a small site - about 10MB in total size, with say 15-20 pages. The hosting package has 2GB bandwidth a month, which I'd have thought would be adequate.

With two or three months, I upgraded the hosting to 5GB since the bandwidth was being all used up. Now on the new package 1.2GB has been already used in 5 days. Seems rather high - and business from it hasn't really increased accordingly.

So I looked through the traffic logs today. Seems to conform my suspicions - even though I don't really understand how to interpret them, many, probably most of the log entries involve a pornographic web address. Hmmm...

Can anyone explain a) what these sites are doing with my hosting, and b) what to do about it? As far as I can see, this upgraded package is a waste of money if it's just being used in some way by these pornographic sites!

Thanks in advance for your time and comments.

[fiestagirl]

This is probably related to the recent increase in referrer log spam.
Here are a few discussions:
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

You could try a search on "referrer log spam" for some ideas on what to do.