Blog Pollution
Posted by nicholelm on April 10, 2007
PC World’s article Comment and Trackback Span Pollutes Blogs dated March 30, 2007 covers blog spam. As they point out, the protection available is lacking. Although spam does not necessarily mean viruses, it is another type of security breach and often acts as a carrier of viruses and other malware.
There are three main ways spammers get their messages into blogs:
- Content Spam
- Trackback Spam
- Spam Blogs, or ‘Splogs’
Blog spamming has become such a major issue for some sites that they must resort to shutting down their site. This is unfortunate since the blog readers will lose a valuable resource.
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