Either Google is allowing eMarketing by Connect Marketing Services to spam me or Connect Marketing Services have broken Google's spam filter.

Comment link spam on some of my blogs is now completely out of control. Not that I mind. They place their link spam for days. I think type a keyword into a webform and it deletes everything with that keyword. What a waste.

Skype has become quite an annoying program. I don't use it, but my daughter does. What I found is that Skype installs a plug-in in Internet Explorer that causes an annoying repeating popup in Internet Explorer everytime you fetch a new page. You have to either give permission to skype to access the content of every webpage you surf or uninstall the plug-in. I cannot believe that someone at Skype is allowing this plug-in to annoy the shit out of people with this stupidity. Skype recomments that you allow the program to access the content of every webpage webpage you surf. WTF!?

Further, I can't seem to figure out how to shutdown Skype. When I logout, it goes to login window with no option to completely shutdown. I have to go into Internet Explorer and kill the process. I'm sure some design moron thought this was a great idea. Fire him please!

Not sure if this is a business name or a person's name, but whomever they are, I caught they leaving link spam in the comment of my blogs. You can get this spammers full address and phone number from their who is record. If you know who this is, then make sure you tell them you know they are scum.

http://whois.domaintools.com/walkintubsoutlet.com

Matthew Donnelly who owns collectionsdvd.com was recently comment link spamming one of my websites. If you're his friend, then you know now what kind of scum this guy is. He lives at 62 Clives Rd, Middlebrough and his phone number is +44.07514169855.

Today, I got comment link spammed by South Honda, a Honda dealership in Miami. I deleted most of it, but left one for my readers to check out; http://www.destroyallmalware.com/?guid=20051202064601. Note that they posted HTML, which I escaped. A very lame attempt to link spam, which will have zero benefit.

I get comment link spam all the time, but it's usually from China or similar. I was shocked today to find it coming from a car dealership. I wonder how much of it they've posted around the Internet.

Today, I got some blog comment link spam from John Moore of San Diego. Another spammer caught. You can find his address and phone number on his whois page. If you know this guy, then call him a loser for me next time you see him.

http://whois.domaintools.com/fastestwayweightloss.com

Yusep Rukmana owns a massive amount of domains and has been posting a lot of link spam on my websites. If you know this guy, then you now know what kind of scum he is.

http://whois.domaintools.com/atosband.com

This Abi Kabar is likely the most persistant spammer yet. I've already contracted his hosting service and they seem unconcerned, if not supported of him. I'm now contacted Google FeedBurner about his feeds. Hopefully, they'll take notice.

Here's his whois information for one of his dozens of domains.

http://whois.domaintools.com/rumahabi.com

I caught this dude from Santa Clara posting comment spam on one of the blogs. He owns hundreds of domains. Each domain and website is massive relinked to all the others. Quite a link farm.

Here's his address and contact info on one of his domain registrations.
http://whois.domaintools.com/abibakarblog.com

But he uses all sorts of names and addresses all over the world. On this blog, he goes by the name Abi Bakar.

Update: Guru Lakshman responded that he is simply the host, not the spammer.

Today, I received an automated message on the phone. I'm not saying a voice-mail. This is one of those services that calls you automatically and tell you about such and such a service or whatever. These services are completely out of control. I get several of these calls today. I hate them. I think it should be illegal to call someone with an automated message unless they specifically requested the service.

And the problem is getting worse. The service that called me today, called back in 15 minutes when I hung up immediately. In fact, it kept calling me every 15 minutes until I listened to the message.

Now the worst part. I listened to the message and its the mother of the best friend of my daughter telling us that her daughter can't attend her birthday party. The human personal touch. Wow! I guess she's too busy to call and have us answer the phone. Rather, she waste our precious time with this stupid service.

Today, I finally moved Destroy All Malware to its own domain; DestroyAllMalware.com.

http://www.destroyallmalware.com/

Quite often, the worst malware is the software that advertises itself as the cure to malware. In this case, PeoplePC spaminator. Why do people use these products? Every few days, I get an email from a service like PeoplePC saying that the person did not get my automated (and requested) email because the email address was not on their whitelist.

This guy operates numerous websites and he's been posting comment spam linking to them. His email is cebeci03@gmail.com. He lives in Turkey. His phone number is +90.5352289924. If you know this guy, then you now know he's scum. Tell his family and friends.

This guy has been comment spamming one of my websites to death today. Let's make sure all his family and friends know he's a big spammer. I've also reported him to Google and every other spam authority, so that they are aware how much of a spammer this guy is.

In the last 24 hours, I noticed I had a new virus on my computer. This virus was pre-installed on my Dell Vista machine. It's called PC Tools Spyware Doctor. It hadn't caused me any problems previously, but in the last day it turns my dual-core Pentium into a 386. I tried stopping the scan. Didn't work. I tried shutting it down. Didn't work. Finally, I resorted to restarting my computer, then immediately uninstalled it. Wow, my computer is fast again. What a virus!

Honestly, the only spyware this tool ever reported was cookies. What a piece of crap.

Got Windows? Get protection from the April 1st virus called Conficker. Goto Microsoft OneCare if you don't already have virus protection. Update your virus protection and run a full scan.

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

This last day, I intiated a first step in a anti-splogging program that seeks out splogs. You can find them by searching for the keywords "Have you been splogging?" at pretty much any blog search engine. Basically, I search for splogs that are compromised (most splogs are) and post on their blog using the hole. The splogs are then linked to the previous blog entry; Splogger Note. The next step would be to unsubscribe them from the service they are using to splog.

If you found a blog entry that linked here, then it's very likely that we discovered you were using a common splogging technique. This technique has a major flaw in that we can now post whatever we want on your blog. If you weren't intending to splog, then please accept our apologies, but note that your blog is compromised since the email address used to post directly to your blog was made public.

Don't know what Splogging is? Read the following.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_blog
• http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2005/11/08/behind-splogging-why-sploggers-splog/

I just purchased DestroyAllMalware.com. I'll be transferring this blog there in the near future.

One major problem that I had to deal with when I created Rmail, was email-to-blog gateways like Blogger's that allowed users to publish on their blogs via email. Rmail converted RSS feeds to emails. This made it trivial for sploggers to steal content by combining Rmail with the email-to-blog gateway. Rmail converts content to emails and the gateway republishes them (stolen) onto another blog. What I did was create a very simply mechanism that would automatically unsubscribe the user when the content was republished.  The technique wasn't prefect, as it did allow the splogger to steal content for weeks and sometimes months before the splogger was discovered and unsubscribed. Unfortunately, most all other RSS-to-email gateway didn't have such a feature, so the blogosphere is currently littered with splogs, mostly on blogspot.com. I've decided to expand my technique to work with other RSS-to-email gateways. It shouldn't take long to write. I'll report back later.

Today, I found that Google has removed this blog from their UK search results. This happened on June 25th. They sent me a message via their Webmaster's tools. It was done, because I wrote a blog entry more than a year ago. The blog entry was about a scammer who was sueing Google in order to de-index people who are exposing his scam. Seems he was successful.

As I mentioned previously, the root problem is the government of the UK, who have been unable to keep up in the Internet age. If you read this and live in the UK, then you might want to tell your politicians to get off their lazy asses and do something productive. And don't worry, we in Canada have similar problems.

http://kbcafe.com/spam/?guid=20070630062328

The last two days, I've run into an unordinate amount of Facebook captchas. Worse, I miss more than half. It seems their captcha system is b0rked.