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No Follow is Still Followed

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:44:53 GMT

Loren Baker asked representatives at Google, Yahoo! and Ask how they are respecting the No Follow attribute on links. It turns out that Google is the only one ignoring these links and that ask.com is not checking for them at all. Arggg! This is very disappointing. You can blame Yahoo! and Ask for the continued acceleration of blog comment spam.

Letters to the Editor

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:04:44 GMT

Today, I got a very funny email response to a previous blog entry. I'll edit the email so that the spammers doesn't getting any juice out of this.

Dear Mr. Morin,

I recently noticed this entry on your [xxx] weblog: [xxx]

Where you imply that visits from my website are fake. That is simply not the case. You "examine the referrer logs" and found no clicks on javascript links. I'm not even sure what javascript links you're talking about, I don't see any useful ones.

The explanation you were looking for, in case you never sussed it:

My users are smarter than yours. They browse with javascript off. And they don't click on ads. For six years [xxx] has been an oasis online for the most open-minded and internet-literate.

I can't believe that a referral spammer would even bother responding. I really loved his explanation, so I thought I'd share. His users are smarter than mine and turn javascript off. Of course, the tracking software I was using (Analytics) is based 100% on javascript, so if this were true, then I'd have seen 0 referrals from him. Anyhow, I responded with the obligatory ROTFLMAO.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:14:55 GMT

Google Operating System: Google Ads Used as Malware Warnings

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Defeat Spam with Incompetence

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:01:59 GMT

I finally defeated blog comment spam today. I wrote code that doesn't compile so that nobody could post comments. This works 100% of the time, but with some false positives.

Google Calendar Security Threat

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:06:16 GMT

Chris Pirillo just uncovered a security issues in Google Calendar. If you search public calendars for user password, then you get a lot of them. Unsure if this is users that have inadvertently put their username and password in a public meeting request, or if Google has a severe problem at hand.

http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/04/22/google-calendar-security-notice/

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:56:42 GMT

Schmidt says YouTube 'very close' to filtering system | CNET News.com

Tags: copyright google malware myspace web20 youtube

Twitter Hacks » Blog Archive » Twitter Vulnerable to Spoofing?

Tags: malware spoof twitter web20

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Why Online Scams Work

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:15:42 GMT

The other day, I friend of mind told me about this opportunity he had online. Someone was going to give him a link on their PR 2 webpage for $500 per month. Wow! I told him it was a scam. He ignored my advice and bought 3 months. So, it does even matter if you tell people its a scam, the idiots will fall for it anyway. I think I need to start my own scams.

Automated Unsolicited Communication Must be STOPPED!

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:44:23 GMT

Automated unsolicited communication is going to kill global communications. I don't mind if someone picks up the phone and calls me, but I'm starting to get an unbearable amount of phone calls from automated dialing machines. BTW, I'm unlisted. We're going to require a spam filtering telephone technology in the near future or the telephone will become obsolete and useful. This is all frustrating. Especially while I watch antiquated governments fail to react.

YouTube Spam

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:55:20 GMT

I noticed today the amount of SERP spam in YouTube is getting out of control. Spammers are creating YouTube accounts, then uploading videos with their watermarks on the videos (mostly of sexy women). Then the description of the video is littered with popular keywords so the videos get picked up in a lot of SERPs. I often search for hockey and NHL, which along with all major sports and leagues are aggressively targeted. Some of the videos have been removed because of TOS violations, but they remain in the SERPs.

YouTube's AudioSwaps

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:41:38 GMT

YouTube users love to mix pictures and video with real music. Unfortunately, this is almost always a copyright violation. YouTube wants to change that and is experimenting with a new feature called AudioSwap which allows you to mix your video with officially licensed music. Try it!

http://www.youtube.com/audioswap_main

Review: The selection of music is very limited and the previewer didn't seem to work; it was mute.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:25:09 GMT

IRS warns of online tax scam - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com

Tags: irs malware online scam tax

Suggest a Gmail Feature

How about not sending emails to the SPAMbox when its from someone in my contact list?

Tags: email gmail google malware spam web20

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Friday, April 13, 2007

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:22:15 GMT

Blog Comment Spammers ~ Chris Pirillo

Tags: blog comment funny malware spam

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del.icio.us/randymorin/malware

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:54:31 GMT

McAfee SiteAdvisor Blog: Amusement Park Typosquatters Install Toolbar via Exploit

Tags: exploit ie malware toolbar typosquatter

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Too Much Blog Comment Spam

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:41:26 GMT

On Twitter, Scoble is reporting that he's got so much blog comment spam that he can no longer take the time to check for false positives. Me too! In fact, I have to rework my entire comment spam system. I gave up while on vacation and never got back in the groove.

http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/statuses/25276511