Retrospective...

You may (or may not!) be interested to know some of the traffic stats for this site. Well, here goes. With absolutely no money spent on advertising, I present the following terrifying statistics.

Read it and weep, PR guys...

In November, we broke this story and detailed how a group of hackers were cracking Apache boxes to infect Windows end-users with multiple IFRAME exploits. A nasty modular attack, this is now employed by numerous CWS sites to pull in a big wad of cash.



In 2005, we broke it down old-skool. March heralded our first (of three) Slashdot appearances, with a Malware bundle that forced the .NET framework onto your PC to power advert-spewing programs. A week later, we reported on a Java applet that led the end-user to a mega bundle of Adware, rogue Firefox .XPIs and a pile of other stuff. The web seemingly went crazy for a while - 21,000 page views in a day is a lot by anyone's standards. Then we come to June, and the utterly bizarre world of MMG, Bittorrent land Adware bundles and affiliates gone nuts, culminating in 3 gigabytes of data flying out of my server a day for nearly 5 days. If that isn't a good advert for my host, I don't know what is.

But how have I managed to pull in as many as 100,000+ visitors some months, with nothing spent on advertising? I'm not sure myself, to be honest. If I did, I'd write a book and market my web-traffic-pulling skillz for all to see. However, I do find a strange parallel here. I'm not comparing myself to Maddox in any way - his back is probably much hairier than mine - I just find it interesting that people are swarming to certain sites, alienated by the psuedo-claptrap bull that infests so many places these days. You'll probably find The Sunbelt Blog, Wayne Porter, Ben Edelman and Suzi of Spywarewarrior.com will report the same sort of phenomenon, coupled with a large volume of traffic, motivated by people who want to see what all the "spyware fuss" is about.

So keep coming back, because I believe I'm due another big one in about five weeks or so. Ooer.