A non existent page is showing up on my analytics.

  • There’s a ghost page showing up in my google analytics on my dashboard. This is the second time I’ve seen this. I would not advise clicking on these sites but It’s showing up under “top pages” as “https://co.lumb.co/” and then showing “https://forum.topic56809347.darodar.com/” as the “top referrer”. I’m not educated in website development or anything. I put together my own website on my iPad and understand a few basic things but I’m not knowledgeable enough to deal with being hacked. I’ve tried running a scan through security site check which came up with no errors or signs of malware. Any insight would be appreciated.

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  • @daniel_cradlecloud i am not sure where you draw the conclusion that the co.lumb spam is in any way related to the vulnerabilities?!

    I can tell you that after applying the filters and blocking the IP the spam did not visit my site. I don’t know if it’s because of that or Google decided to take action.

    I am NOT computer SAVY! My blog is my private diary and I have only shared the URL with about 6 peeps, but now I seem to have unknown friends in Russia … and a lot of them! I blocked Econom.co IP that I found online with toolator and it seemed like that resolved it for a couple hours, but now I am getting hits from Ilovevitaly.com with same IP address. There are others too over past few days the columbo one, and most others referenced here. Same areas of Russia. I ran a scan on my computer to see if I am infected, it is clean, or has Norton just not detected. But, I worry about my few readers to my little personal blog :-(, I don’t want them getting infected.

    Advice? What do I do? I am a blogger, not wordpress, but you forum seems a bit stronger on this subject right now, and maybe you can point me in the right direction? Thanks!

    I have the same exact issue. The problem shows up on my GA, but the strange pages are completely missing from JetPack, so other than the one person who said he has them on JetPack, it looks to me like it’s GA specific.

    @alin Marcu – I’ve followed your advice and applied the hostname filter. My question is, should I be only applying the “include only” filter? Or should I also be applying an exclude filter with the suspect IP address?

    Also, from what I’m reading here, it sounds like the danger at this point is only inaccurate data, correct?

    Thanks for the help!! I actually had been seeing the Semalt one for a while and had no clue what it was. But since it was just a referrer, it didn’t seem as bothersome. Only today did I first get the co.lumb one in my page views and it had nearly 40 visits. Finally that raised a red flag to even my inexperienced eyes.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Okay folks. We’re at 125 posts and I’m closing this becuase:

    1) This isn’t a WP issue.

    2) It’s not a ‘problem’, as Otto said:

    There is nothing to be done. It’s referrer spam. You can simply ignore it. It doesn’t affect your site or rankings in any real way.

    See also https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/74692/what-are-these-unknown-visits-to-my-private-unlisted-webpage

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