What does this referrer to my website mean?

8383

When I was looking at my site statistics I noticed under the Referrers to my website the following referrer:

[size=-1][url="xxxx:+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"]XXXX:+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++[/url]

Does anyone know what this means? Or why it would appear? According to my site statistics they visited 8 times...
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criminal_smile

I get this from time to time on my web stats as well. It seems to be from referrers who cannot be recognised, usually autosurf programs, where there is a script running the page loading, rather than a browser direct.

8383

Thanks. I started to get worried that it was a hacker or something!

wirm

I keep on getting this on my website, started last month and some again this month...

bbb_uk

Could also be Firewall settings. Eg. ZA Security Suite has an option to remove personal private header info.

Below note referrer is missing and have some 'XXXXXXX':-

Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-gb
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: www.grc.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; VNIE60; SV1)
Content-Length: 32
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
XXXXXXX: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Cache-Control: no-cache
Secure: https://www.grc.com
Nonsecure: http://www.grc.com

Here is same but without firewall privacy settings on:-

Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-gb
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: www.grc.com
Referer: http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; VNIE60; SV1)
Content-Length: 32
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cache-Control: no-cache
Secure: https://www.grc.com
Nonsecure: http://www.grc.com

Though referrer is missing and parts are 'xxx' from mine could just be because that's what the firewall does. A different firewall may display different results instead.