Blog Spam / Phishing / Harvesting

re: Blog Spam / Phishing / Harvesting

William Luu — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:14:00 GMT

Yeah it's just blog spam, nothing malicious. They're just trying to boost their websites' Google Rank.

It could very well be one of those bots/scripts doing the rounds. I've seen something like what you've mentioned posted as comments on other blogs out there as well.

Which leads me to suspect it's an automated attack.

The non-ascii characters are actually Chinese characters. The site is basically promoting some "free" online movie downloads.

I think this is more spam, than a security issue, so you probably won't see it on a security website.

Or perhaps it could even be a host of many machines that have been infected, once infected they are "activated" and go browsing through many blogs and in an automated way, attempt to spam them?

Ah, who knows? I'm just speculating here (as in the above paragraph), so it could really be anything really.

Blog Spam / Phishing / Harvesting

.Net Adventures — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:26:00 GMT

Blog SPAM

Steve Lamb's WebLog — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:05:00 GMT

re: Blog Spam / Phishing / Harvesting

Sam — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:43:00 GMT

I'd say it's spam, too - I see loads of these in comments/guestbooks lately, some plain advertising (buy viagra), some 'great site, look at mine', one even with a crude joke.

'They' try everything to get more audience. And who can really say if a post is 'real' or 'hidden advertising'.
Even my post here could just be a try to get more audience to my site, how would you know?

conclusion: I don't have a guestbook anymore. pity.

Sam

Blog Spam / Phishing / Harvesting

.Net Adventures — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:10:00 GMT