Anyone who watches their site stats would know straight away, but less hands-on webmasters would have no way of knowing, and those lost visitors are unlikely to tell them the problem because they never see the site. Meanwhile the site owners are wondering why i’s a quiet month.

hmmmm. nasty.

What’s worse is that at first you’d have no idea why. I have to admit, I myself wouldn’t think of looking at the htaccess file, not for a long time!

Of course now that I know, I’ll be monitoring this file, generate some script to automate this process.

Nonetheless this is a very sneaky and powerful way to hack a site for money without the owner even realizing! Or even knowing what’s causing it.

Great post!

Spammers piss people of on a daily basis. Thousand, maybe millions of people. Now when a spammer finds a threat on his answering machine, do you really think he should go and complain that spamhuntress posted his information? Shouldn’t he maybe sit down and think about the fact that he’s pissing people off?

If making others angry is your job, you shouldn’t be surprised when you feel that anger every once in a while.