Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site.

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2007


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numero = 68320
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texte = Stuart Tremain wrote: > I think that the major reason for these spam attacks is that the > spammer is actually making a commission for any sales made through > their links. I'm not sure about that. The links I've tested so far have all been - I guess you can call it "fake spam" - links leading to a 404 at a non-existing subdomain name of some site that doesn't seem to have interest in spamming at all. There are a couple of posible reasons for this: 1) It's all just some hacker gone wild - kind'a like the old ring-somebodys-doorbell-and-run-away joke taken to the extreme. 2) Somebody's trying to discredit the apparent spam clients. 3) The "fake spam" links are just tests. Once it's established that they actually get posted and appear at the search engines, the payload is posted. 4) The "fake spam" is used as a cloak for the real thing. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site. ( Stuart Tremain 2007)
  2. Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site. ( Frank Nordberg 2007)
  3. Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site. ( Stuart Tremain 2007)
  4. Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site. ( Frank Nordberg 2007)
  5. Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site. ( Peter Shefler 2007)
  6. Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site. ( "Olin Lagon" 2007)
  7. Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site. ( Frank Nordberg 2007)
  8. Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site. ( Gary Krockover 2007)
  9. Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site. ( HipCitySales 2007)
Stuart Tremain wrote: > I think that the major reason for these spam attacks is that the > spammer is actually making a commission for any sales made through > their links. I'm not sure about that. The links I've tested so far have all been - I guess you can call it "fake spam" - links leading to a 404 at a non-existing subdomain name of some site that doesn't seem to have interest in spamming at all. There are a couple of posible reasons for this: 1) It's all just some hacker gone wild - kind'a like the old ring-somebodys-doorbell-and-run-away joke taken to the extreme. 2) Somebody's trying to discredit the apparent spam clients. 3) The "fake spam" links are just tests. Once it's established that they actually get posted and appear at the search engines, the payload is posted. 4) The "fake spam" is used as a cloak for the real thing. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Frank Nordberg

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