I seem to be getting a lot of log spam from Microsoft. Typical entry has a
referrer of
"http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=seminar&form=QBHP" and with a Microsoft
IP. The common factor is "form=QBHP". Since August 1, I have had 839 of these,
compared with 14 apparently legitimate search references from search.live.com
and 300 from the main Google search engine.

The effect is to mess up logs and statistics. Does anyone one know what the
purpose of this is?

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Sig wrote:
> I seem to be getting a lot of log spam from Microsoft. Typical entry has a
> referrer of
> "http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=seminar&form=QBHP" and with a Microsoft
> IP. The common factor is "form=QBHP". Since August 1, I have had 839 of these,
> compared with 14 apparently legitimate search references from search.live.com
> and 300 from the main Google search engine.
>
> The effect is to mess up logs and statistics. Does anyone one know what the
> purpose of this is?
>
Yes, it is referer spam, they fake the referer (READ the post that was
posted the other day on this topic.
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