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November 27, 2007
Scrub yer blogs
Scrub yer blogs: A call to action here... if you've got an active weblog, or one on a domain with high pagerank, then please do take the extra effort to delete spam comments from your blogs. Why? Because hackers have broken the search engines: "For months now, Sunbelt's Research Team has been monitoring a bot network whose only purpose is to post spam links and relevant keywords to online forms -- typically comment forms and bulletin board forums, Thomas said in his posting. That network, combined with thousands of the seeded pages, has given the attackers an excellent, if not top, search engine position for various search terms. In fact, for the search terms in question, the first page of returns contains multiple pages seeded with malware." Source info at Sunbelt Blog; discussion at Techmeme.
Posted by JohnDowdell at November 27, 2007 09:00 PM
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