When checking my Google analytics, I noticed 4 strange events. Their category is softonicmm
and action STATS_SITE_IRRELEVANT
. I'm not triggering these events.
Has anyone seen similar events or have any additional information about them?
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Sign up to join this communityWhen checking my Google analytics, I noticed 4 strange events. Their category is softonicmm
and action STATS_SITE_IRRELEVANT
. I'm not triggering these events.
Has anyone seen similar events or have any additional information about them?
This was a rogue internet explorer toolbar that injected javascript code into the apges the users were seeing and causing these events. Only affected internet explorer users who had that toolbar. This issue has been fixed as the company responsible for the toolbar has patched their software to avoid the events from leaking out.
I see the softonicmm
event for 5 days now in our Google Analytics. Maybe a new form of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam