Strange entry in web stats

[tres]

December 4, 2008, 8:24 pm 86.13.42.211 This building is surrounded by FILM!
December 4, 2008, 8:08 pm 66.231.189.44
December 4, 2008, 7:38 pm 66.231.189.44
December 4, 2008, 7:33 pm 82.33.1.217 http://www.*****.co.uk/index.php
December 4, 2008, 7:33 pm 82.33.1.217 http://www.*****.co.uk/
December 4, 2008, 7:31 pm 82.33.1.217 http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_... jobs in london&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8&pop=1&r


I'm very confused
What the hell is that!

 

[Augmented]

"This building is surrounded by FILM!" appears to be a quote from Blake's 7 (as in the old BBC sci-fi show). Presumably that user wants to protect their privacy and is spoofing their browser referrer string with that quote - it's very trivial to do.

 

[fishfishfish]

My logs sometimes contain referrer strings for user agents claiming to be anything from Commodore 64s to ZX Spectrums. There's a plugin for Firefox that allows you to do this very easily (called User Agent Switcher). I use it to get my browser to fool websites into thinking that I'm browsing from a mobile phone to test that my mobile sites are sending adapted content correctly.

 

[TwoSaints]

I get some very random results in mine too, for example this month I've had 15 hits from someone using firefox 8?!

 

[malef!c]

Are the websites etc referrers - where the visitor came from?

Only asking as there appears to be, from what I have read around the web, a push on SEO people doing referrer spamming.

They have tools that say they have clicked a link on a website to come to your site - some stats packages can display log files to the public therefore giving a link back to the referring site.

So I guess it gives them more incoming links / pagerank etc.