Sunday, 27. October 2002

When the Spam Hits the Blogs


Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of the conversational websites known as weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam. Referral logs, intended to collect information on who visited a website and how they happened to arrive there, are being stuffed with bogus links. Curious bloggers who click on a logged link to see who visited their site are instead led to pornography or advertising sites.

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