Hi there,
I logged into Cpanel today and took a browse around to check that everything was running smoothly.
When I looked in the Error Log section I was surprised to see a large number of 404 entries looking for pages that I do not have.
Here is an example:-
>[Wed May 2 06:51:24 2007] [error] [client 66.249.72.148] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/lsn/Model-Jamie-Dornan.html
[Wed May 2 06:47:08 2007] [error] [client 66.249.72.148] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/Super-Image-Finder-Grabber-4.15-keygen-crack.html
[Wed May 2 06:45:01 2007] [error] [client 66.249.72.148] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/download-free-delphi-2005-full-.ru.html
[Wed May 2 06:42:52 2007] [error] [client 66.249.72.148] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/download-mp3.larc-en-ciel.html
[Wed May 2 06:40:44 2007] [error] [client 66.249.72.148] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/Julia-Miles.html
[Wed May 2 06:40:11 2007] [error] [client 67.159.44.252] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/404.shtml
[Wed May 2 06:37:20 2007] [error] [client 66.249.72.148] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/download-ave-IMPERATOR-FLA-3-keygen.html
[Wed May 2 06:36:52 2007] [error] [client 84.107.143.15] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/lsn/crack-broken-sword-download.html
[Wed May 2 06:36:09 2007] [error] [client 87.109.213.126] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/lsn/crack-broken-sword-download.html
[Wed May 2 06:34:21 2007] [error] [client 66.249.72.148] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/archive/2005/05/22/1c463f83468943e04178eaa2e112add5.html
[Wed May 2 06:28:47 2007] [error] [client 220.226.184.18] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/archive/2005/02/crack-icy-400-server-full.html
[Wed May 2 06:28:38 2007] [error] [client 195.242.99.80] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/404.shtml
[Wed May 2 06:25:39 2007] [error] [client 66.249.72.148] File does not exist: /home/myaccount/public_html/mlsn/2005/12/need-for-speed-undergruond-2-password.html
All of the directory paths listed are correct for my site, but none of the attempted pages exist. They all look like cracks or pirate software.....
I've never had links titled this in the past that might be cached somewhere. There are literally hundreds of them, all different.
Any idea whats going on here? The only think I can think of ios some spam bot that’s gone wonky, but I cannot see what it achieves by looking for non-existent files.
Rob