Adsense Ad View Attack

Anybody know what I can do?

[sailorjwd]

I noticed about an hour ago that one of my pages is getting viewed many times per second by one IP ([snip]). My hosting company has blocked this IP, and whole block of IPs but the ad views are still showing.

Does anyone know what can be done about this?

I suspect they maybe getting the views from either a copy of the page or maybe a Google cache version?

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 10:12 pm (utc) on April 28, 2005]
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[SeK612]

I suppose try to stop the attack if you can (you can filter IP's via a .htaccess file) and contact Google explaining the problem.

I suppose it could be an attempt at a DDos attack and your ads are just a side event.

The IP posted resolves in India. Check it as there're a email address you could contact to explain the problem.

[sailorjwd]

Banglor India.. I guess I've done all I can do:

Contacted Google
Host blocked all IPs from that region
Removed adsense from page
Deleted page for a while but it didn't stop - that's why I think they are working off a copy.

Thanks for your comments.

[sailorjwd]

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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 10:13 pm (utc) on April 28, 2005]

[Powdork]

I noticed about an hour ago that one of my pages is getting viewed many times per second by one IP (<snip>). My hosting company has blocked this IP, and whole block of IPs but the ad views are still showing.

If it's only been blocked for an hour then the ad views you are currently seeing should stop soon. The statistics are not real time, just close to real time. Also consider that anyone can cut and paste your code (including publisher ID and channel ID) onto their page and then pump up the impressions.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 10:13 pm (utc) on April 28, 2005]

[bbkid]

It would be nice if I could get 100 of my friends to ping this guy to a crawl.

I ran this command but it just got a screen full of 'Request timed out.'

ping -t -w 0 -l 65500 <snip>

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 10:13 pm (utc) on April 28, 2005]

[sailorjwd]

I'm looking at my realtime site logs... not adsense, so they are still hitting it.

I kicked off about 10 ping batch files but it had no effect on them - my computer is rather slow.

[Brett_Tabke]

We can't do personal info like ip's in the forum. It only leads to attacks.

As far as what you can do - report it to your hosting company and to his isp's abuse address. Keep all the logs.

[sailorjwd]

OK... thanks Brett. It appears the attack has stopped for now... case closed