Why are requests being made to /eyeblaster on my website?

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Matt Parkins picture Matt Parkins · Apr 12, 2013 · Viewed 13k times · Source

My Adsense-supported website's error.log file has lots entries like this which I'm fairly sure are advert related:

[Fri Apr 12 07:19:57 2013] [error] [client IP] File does not exist: /var/www/[mywebsite]/htdocs/eyeblaster, referer: http://apac-bidder.mathtag.com/notify/iframe? [snip lots of junk]

What is it and is it harmful? Should I create an empty eyeblaster.html file to shut it up?

I also have another two that are like it - are they related?:

[Fri Apr 12 07:08:52 2013] [error] [client IP] File does not exist: /var/www/[mywebsite]/htdocs/7196176924447058959

[Fri Apr 12 07:13:58 2013] [error] [client IP] File does not exist: /var/www/[mywebsite]/htdocs/_sans

Answer

Mark Leighton Fisher picture Mark Leighton Fisher · Apr 19, 2013

Take a look at StackOverflow question above - Determine which advertisement made a request to /eyeblaster/addineyev2.html. I think all will be revealed :).

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