Can I hide log spammers in Analog?

[kapow]

I use Analog for webstats for about 50 websites.
Does anyone know how to hide log spammers in Analog?

The log spammers appear in the 'Request Report' of Analog. Most of the reqest report shows number of times pages in my site were requested, BUT there are lots of requests for the log spammers domains e.g.:

Typical sample from a 'Request Report':

34: 0.12%: 29/Mar/04 11:01: [yahoo.com...]
16: : 3/Mar/04 23:21: *
16: 0.06%: 7/Apr/04 01:33: [ebay.com...]
7: 0.03%: 27/Dec/03 16:05: [intel.com...]
4: 0.01%: 7/Dec/03 03:36: [alltheweb.com...]
2: 0.01%: 7/Oct/03 11:43: [chinaarp.com...]
2: 0.01%: 20/Oct/03 04:05: [eachnet.com...]

I HATE THIS MESS IN MY STATS
Does anyone know how to kill these in Analog?

[Receptional]

It sounds like your logs are "open for the world to see" - making them a target for log spammers. Putting the logs into a password protected area would help.

Apart from that, analog isn't designed to filter these out - you'll need to go up market I expect. Unless you can export the lopgs into Excell and delete all the ones with spam IP Identities I guess - but then I can't recall if analogue even has an export facility.

Dixon.

[Dreamquick]

Spammers take the shotgun approach - spam enough websites with a fake referral string and you're certain to find some that have public logs, and also some who don't have public logs but are naive enough to repost the URL to ask what it is / why it appeared.

It doesn't always mean that they are targetting sites with public logs, they could just have culled a list of sites in their field from Google and are trying to spam their way to related / on theme links.

- Tony

[kapow]

The logs are generated from requests to the site, it would make no difference if they were in a password protected area they would still show spammy requests for a supposed page called: [ebay.com...]
on my site.

Re. 'export the logs into Excell'.
I'm managing a lot of sites, I need an automatic solution not a manual one.