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Spammers feeling lucky with Google Published: 2007-09-21, Last Updated: 2007-09-21 07:31:49 UTC by Bojan Zdrnja (Version: 2) For quite some time spammers have been trying to hide links advertised in their e-mails. The main reason for this is probably increasing effectiveness of various realtime blocklists, such as SURBL. For those that aren't familiar with SURBL (http://www.surbl.org), it's an RBL that lists list URIs found in spam e-mails. In other words, instead of listing spam zombies or relays, RBLs like SURBLs list sites that are referenced in advertised spams. <SNIP - you get the idea - or click above> On 9/25/07, Steve Ragan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070924/tc_zd/215816 > > I've seen this a lot lately, and I don't see how these sites were allowed. > Is there anyone here who can shed some light on this? > > Steve > > Excerpt: > > "A reader, Courtney Cox (no relation to the actress), recently pointed out > to me that the top results of recent complex Google searches turned out to > be inane Chinese sites that were not even parking sites, just an assortment > of keywords that somehow got indexed and brought to the top of the results > list. After seeing a few of these sites, I have to wonder what's going on. > Is it sabotage?" > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
