Looks like Microsoft has some sense of humor:
It won’t make me a sandwich?
System Restore can fix many problems, but it’s not designed to do everything. It won’t fix a slow download speed, for example. But it’s a great tool to turn to when everything else you’ve tried hasn’t worked…
I ran across this little nugget last night while trying to figure out why System Restore was only keeping one restore point on my dad’s laptop.
-John Havlik
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So today I was looking at my website’s logs to check on any suspicious traffic that I may be receiving. It seems that something like 20 visitors a day are now claiming to arrive here by searching for Havlik in one of the major three search engines. I have never had that much traffic for that keyword, which instantly raises a red flag. Digging further into the logs I discovered a true gem. It looks like Microsoft is resorting to referrer spam for their Live search engine. How do I know? It’s fairly simple. One why in the world would my blog be on the first page of search results for the following terms: standards, WordPress, scripts, or university? Sure the referrer field is spoofed for these but many spammers do that, how can I link this to Microsoft? Easy, IP addresses. Why are users of Microsoft Corporate IP space (65.55.165.63, 65.55.165.72, 65.55.165.95, 65.55.165.12, or 65.55.165.116 to be exact) using Internet Explorer 7 and spoofing their referrer field? Anyone have an answers to this, feel free to comment.
-John Havlik
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