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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

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Matt Parkins
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    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13462795/determine-which-advertisement-made-a-request-to-eyeblaster-addineyev2-html – Koterpillar Apr 16 '13 at 11:00

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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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Mark Leighton Fisher
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Eyeblaster is an online advertising company now called Sizmek (formerly Mediamind).

As John mentioned, this file is used as an iframe buster, just like DoubleClick's iframe buster, which should be placed by a publisher on [www.example.com]/doubleclick/DARTIframe.html

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Another solution is to disallow eyeblaster.
Just add these to your robots.txt:

Disallow: /eyeblaster
Disallow: /addineyeV2.html

Or I prefer to redirect eyeblaster to index.html inside .htaccess file

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (eyeblaster|addineyeV2) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.html? [R=301,L]
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eyeblaster is just another piece of malware which most machines end up getting on at one point from what I can tell it hasn't caused any series issues but it is best to remove it from your machine whenever your anti-malware software pics it up

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