VampireStat: A Warning & Referrer Spam

This is completely off the topic of economics I'm afraid. It's a heads up to other bloggers - if you've been getting hits on your blog from a website called VampireStat then do not click on it. Please. I was always suspicious of it when I saw it was browsing my page and pumping up my hit counter so I never clicked on it to find out what it was - but from what I've heard its a potentially malicious site. There are other sites similar to it, trying to entice blog owners onto their page to spam them and potentially infect them.

So, this is a heads up to blog owners not to click on the link to VampireStat. I don't know anyway of blocking them from viewing your blog, but for now just resist the temptation to click. If you know the names of other similar sites please comment them and help out fellow bloggers.

A few other sites have come up that are essentially the same thing: 'Filmhill', 'current' and 'topblogstories'. Once again, DO NOT click on these links. I did some digging and these sites are known as referrer spam. There isn't actually someone viewing your blog, these sites are using bots to trawl through blogs to get you to click on their link. The only way to stop them is to not click on them. Clicking on them makes them do it more. So, to reiterate, ignore any hits from these sites and do not click the link. It's for the good of yourself as well as others!
Cheers guys!