On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> The spammers spent a couple of days adding new accounts (undoubtedly > thousands) and are now using those accounts to spam the site, at the > rate of about 30 or more per minute. You can watch it happening in the > "recently" page. Every spam is adding this: > > <p><a > href="http://download.clubfreebooks/qwert.php?sid=1&tds-key=book<http://download.clubfreebooks.org/qwert.php?sid=1&tds-key=book> > "><img > src="http://s017.radikal.ru/i400/1211/e7/458f4b34ab21.gif"; alt="" > /></a></p> > > Which is a blinking .gif for an ebook download. Here's the result > (obviously, don't click on it) > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL98200W/Studies_in_critical_philosophy > > They are also continuing to add new accounts. > > I have no idea what the spam does, but suspect it's gathering data for, > or creating, zombies for later use. Anyone know how to stop this? That's crazy. What web site in 2012 accepts and displays unsanitized HTML? OpenLibrary is an attractive nuisance and as long as it's such a tempting target, you won't be able to stem the tide. Stop allowing raw HTML and this will go away. Tom
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