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Why am I seeing "to use this feature visit: Event-Tracking.com" along with my other Event tracking data? I searched the web but found no answers. What is it and why is it there? Using Universal(latest). Example event tracking for a download:

onclick="ga('send', 'event', 'Baseball', 'Download', '1977');"

I see analytic data for the above, but can't figure out why the "to use this feature visit: Event-Tracking.com" is posted too.

ColBeseder
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user2140857
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    This is a kind of referral spam. They want to trick you into visiting the url (which is a copy of a bit of Google documentation plus some advertising, plus it may or may not contain malware). Use a filter on your data view to exclude events with "category contains Event-Tracking.com" (won't work for data that's already collected). – Eike Pierstorff Jun 07 '15 at 19:24
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    possible duplicate of [Why do I see results on my Google Analytics portal even before I run my app?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30613077/why-do-i-see-results-on-my-google-analytics-portal-even-before-i-run-my-app) – nyuen Jun 07 '15 at 21:56
  • Thanks for the reply. I added the filter and that has solved the issue. Bummer that it still displays that collected data. – user2140857 Jun 09 '15 at 04:08

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Eike's comment is the answer. Here is how to set the event filter.

  1. In Google Analytics click Admin and then under the View column find Filters.
  2. Add a new filter with Custom type.
  3. Choose Exclude and in the option type "event" and select Event Category.
  4. Paste in whatever garbage the spammers filled your account with.
  5. Verify the filter to see if there are matches on your data set before saving the new filter. Note that any filters permanently delete the GA data from the account. Changes from applying a filter cannot be reversed.

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