The answer to the question I asked yesterday is: SafeBoot.zip. Excellent deduction work Matthew.
And now a second question: what are the most popular search term variations (two or more words) that land people on my blog https://blog.DidierStevens.com (according to WordPress.com)?
Post a comment with your answer.
spidermonkey || spidermonkey download
Comment by gth — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 9:26
No, spidermonkey doesn’t even appear in the stats.
Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 9:51
just a guess going by my own experience with search term referrals, but would it happen to be your name?
Comment by kurt wismer — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 13:56
That’s true, my name also ranks high in the search term list, but certainly not as high as the ones I want you to guess.
A little hint: I ask this second question because the answer is in sharp contrast with the first question.
Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 14:06
Probable your little Google Adwords thing from a few months back!
Comment by iamnowonmai — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 15:52
It’s related to that, but what search terms?
Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:35
I am going to guess that it is one (or two) of the words in the sentence “Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!” Why, well because when googling your name that is the first result returned. Other evidence is it is listed in your top post section. As for a guess on the specific word(s) I’d say “PC virus free”, a link to your site was the 1st one returned when searching on that term (without using quotes in the search). But I didn’t explore every possible combination.
Comment by DF — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:35
Virus is one of the words in the search term, but what is the second word?
Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:42
That should have been “PC virus-free” but they both return your site as the 1st result.
Comment by DF — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:43
My last guess. Is it “get”? Again a search on “virus get” returned your site as the first result and “infected virus” was I think the fourth result. I am a little surprised it wasn’t “PC”.
Comment by DF — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:48
You’re very close. “get a virus” is a popular search term, but another verb is much more popular.
Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:57
Ok, so this is my last one. Download. I am feel kind of stupid for not thinking of it earlier.
Comment by DF — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 20:10
You’ve got it, “download virus”, “virus download”, “download a virus”, … All these search terms rank high in my stats.
My Adwords post is linked to by a lot of web sites, so it ranks high in search results. And people looking for a virus are also directed to myse blog…
Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 20:26