Tag Archive for 'spam'

Manually Spamming Blogs

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Lately I’ve seen a rise of referrers like this on several of my sites:

[20/Sep/2008:07:02:26 -0500] “GET /hotmail-captcha-extraction HTTP/1.1″ 200 11473 “http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=%2B%22Leave+a+Reply%22+%2B%22Name+(required)%22+%2BEmail+(required)&start=130&sa=N” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)”

You can add all the captchas you want, but you’ll never defeat someone manually spamming your sites :)

PHP Forum Spammer

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Taky from http://takyseo.com has just posted a really interesting snippet of code, check it out.

It’s basically a PHP Forum Spammer, pretty useful to get some backlinks to your sites. With some coding skills you could include this into your YACG sites to automatically generate backlinks. Now if you really want to make something impressive, integrate into your sites this daily keywords hook and his PHP Forum Spammer… Your sites would grow naturally as well as the backlinks.

*.edu Forums List

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago in Uncategorized. 19 Comments Tags: , .

I was bored because half the sites I visit have been “hacked” (You guys need to get yourself a new April’s Fool joke)… So I decided to post? this list of .edu forums ;)

Some lines of the list:

http://vr.me.ncku.edu.tw/courses/cgi-bin/phorum/cg/phpBB2/…
http://www.ucsp.edu.pe/centros/familia/foro/index.php
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Efaye/340s/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi
http://www.fz.shtu.edu.cn/shwbsite/sjpc/messboard/addnew.asp?…
http://ec.hs.yzu.edu.tw/jiachi/board98/addnew.asp?…
http://inafocam.edu.do/phpBB2/index.php
http://www.skidmore.edu/resources/phorum/

Click here for the complete list

*.edu Spam

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago in Uncategorized. 19 Comments Tags: , .

EDU Spam

Go to Google and search for ringtones, cialis, viagra or any other profitable niche and you will see something similar to the image above. This is called edu spam.

As you might know, *.edu and *.gov domains rank way better in search engines (Specially Google) than any other TLD, and that’s exactly why some search engine spammers are using those domains to promote their landing pages/affiliate sites.

How do they do it? Well if you look closely you might figure it out by yourself… But for those lazy ones here is a quick explanation of this technique:

  1. Find forums/guestbooks installed on *.gov and *.edu domains. You can find them with Google using a query like this: site:edu OR site:gov “Forum”
  2. Drop your link there – Most of them will accept live links, and if they are vulnerable to XSS you can do so much more like redirecting to your site automatically with JavaScript
  3. Make the spiders crawl that site (QUIT?)
  4. Repeat

Of course the moar the better, so you might want to code a tool to automate the process and get more links.

EDIT: Here you can find an example on EDU spamming (Scroll down to the bottom)