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Update:
Well I finally got that sorted, it was a virus on my Windows 7 that ESET did not catch. I changed to Kaspersky which detected there was an issue but did not get rid of it. I side-stepped the issue by switching to my mac for awhile.
The virus used filezilla (I think) to silently upload its payload to any site that was in the site manager.
Once in there it set up its malware thing and a cron job that would rebuild the payload every 10 minutes in case it was taken down.
As soon as the payload was in place I guess the botnet behind the virus sent massive loads of traffic to infect as many browsers as possible. Hence the 300k visits a day.
From the injected php code Konrad, who helped me slay the beast discovered that the hacker uses the handle Fatigue, and that is his login at his stats site, bombastats.com. Looks like he changed his login now though cause it doesn't work any more. There was a stats page in there showing how many browsers he had infected, it looked really nice and professional but I couldn't make out too much because it was all in a Russian-looking alphabet.
Now that the virus is gone, stats have completely normalized. While the attack was going on I got thousands of views on each of my videos, 2 paid signups and a paid join on Fling.
I really hope that this virus traffic is just really low quality because I hate to think that with almost exactly 1 million unique visits I would make less than $100. I am guessing targeted traffic would be worth more.
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