attacks of idiots with click scripts?

[Noel]

Today I got hit again (3rd time this month) by some idiot(s) running some kind of click script/tools!

I get over 100 clicks of the same IP on the same ad within one minute!

Thank god that I'm running a logging script, and that I can take immediate action like blocking the IP and emailing AdSense about this!

Anyone else here who get this kind of "attacks"?

Noel

[funandgames]

Well the good part of this is that Google isn't suspending your account over something you cannot control!

[Jon_King]

Noel,
How do you track the ip's hitting your adsense ads?

[Noel]

Well the good part of this is that Google isn't suspending your account over something you cannot control!

Yeah.. But still I've email google about this everytime, and they thanked me for reporting it :-)

Noel,
How do you track the ip's hitting your adsense ads?

Some time ago there was a nice script posted here to do things like this.

I can't find the post about this anymore.

Noel

[ogletree]

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[DingoNY]

I highly reccommend asRep. When I bought it a couple months ago it was (is?) only $25... And it gives a LOT of great information. I only wish that as with all scripts - it cannot catch every AS click.

[Noel]

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/1585.htm

I guess that will work, but it's not the one I'm using.

Noel

[brianng]

here's the one I'm using. Put this javascript in your page

<script>
function hit(){
window.focus();
if (window.status){
img = new Image();
img.src = 'tracking.php?ref=' + escape(document.location) + ' ¦ ' + escape(window.status);

};
};
document.getElementById("google_ads_frame").onfocus = hit;
</script>

And here's the code for the php file. It will save the log to a text file

<?
if($ref) {
if (getenv(HTTP_CLIENT_IP)){
$ip=getenv(HTTP_CLIENT_IP);
}
else {
$ip=getenv(REMOTE_ADDR);
}

$time = date("F-d ¦ h:i:s A");
$log= "$time ¦ $ip ¦ $ref\n";
$data=file("track.txt");
$num=count($data);
$fp=fopen("track.txt","w");
flock($fp,LOCK_EX);
fputs($fp,$log);
for ($i=0;$i<$num;$i++){
fputs($fp,$data[$i]);
}
fclose($fp);
}
?>