Trackback spam waves

Sunday, June 10 2007 @ 09:53 CEST

Contributed by: Dirk

Trackback spam has picked up again, after a relatively long and quite period. Currently, we're mainly seeing two sorts of Trackback spam:

1) Trackback spam for www.yahoo.com. No, really. Just that URL, no search queries attached. All that spam is using the word Colomarine and if you search for that word, you'll find lots of sites hit by that spam already. This has been going on for a few days now and I have yet to see the sense in all that ...

2) Trackback spam for nasty porn subjects (rape, incest, animals), abusing .edu domains yet again. That spam is actually redirecting to contraviruspro.com which uses some nasty JavaScript stuff that even made my Firefox crash. Nice. They want to sell you their anti virus software, displaying bogus warning and "scanning your PC" messages trying to make you think you're infected. The only malware here, though, is their website ...

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