June 14, 2004

Zombie PCs.... not just for mail spam any more

Nope, looks like they're used for blog spam now too. At least it looks that way from my MT logs, as I look at all the stuff that MT-Blacklist has blocked. (Mmmmm, MT-blacklist goodness. Regardless of whatever happens with MT 3.x's license, code, or fortune cookies, there's no way in hell I'm switching from the MT2.661 setup I have now if there's no blacklist equivalent for it)

Dunno whether they're generic web proxies, or blog-spam-specific things. Since the wave hit more than a week ago it's tough to tell for sure, since dynamic IP addresses for dialup machines and whatnot'll have long-since changed. There are a variety of webservers and whatnot running on some of the IP addresses now. (I almost wonder if someone's got some sort of auto-posting web-spam bug XSS exploit. Or something)

Posted by Dan at June 14, 2004 08:13 PM | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Dan --

yeppers. the blog spammers are the email spammers, at least
as far as I can tell. They
certainly are the same people
in the case of referrer spam,
at least...

Posted by: Justin Mason at June 14, 2004 11:10 PM