Comments on: 411-spyware.com – The new forum spammers? http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin_papa http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-58998 admin_papa Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:23:11 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-58998 Hi Folks! Just wanted to share my new experience. If your system denies to start due to an error related to missing HAL.DLL, invalid Boot.ini or any other important system boot files you can fix this by using the XP installation CD. Simply boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console. Then run "attrib -H -R -S" on the C:\Boot.ini file and remove it. Launch "Bootcfg /Rebuild" and then Fixboot Cheers, Carl Hi Folks!

Just wanted to share my new experience.

If your system denies to start due to an error related to missing HAL.DLL, invalid Boot.ini or any other important system boot files you can fix this by using the XP installation CD. Simply boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console. Then run “attrib -H -R -S” on the C:\Boot.ini file and remove it. Launch “Bootcfg /Rebuild” and then Fixboot

Cheers,
Carl

]]> By: JeanInMontana http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-16576 JeanInMontana Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:17:00 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-16576 Tuesday is day two of the Five Days of Project Honey Pot Announcements. Yesterday we announced QuickLinks which allow even more people to help with the Project. Today we are announcing that Project Honey Pot has begun tracking a new kind of online beastie: Comment Spammers. If you're not aware, comment spammers crept up from the depths in the last few years. They are robots are running around the internet leaving their comments on feed back forms, blogs, and forums. The purpose is not only to drive traffic to the sites when people visiting the forums click the links, but also to increase search engine rank by increasing the number of back links to their site. To learn more about how we're tracking comment spammers, please visit: http://www.projecthoneypot.org/5days_tuesday.php We turned the system on only a little over a week ago and already have caught more than 600 unique IPs engaged in comment spamming. We expect that number will dramatically increase over time. If you haven't done so already, install a honey pot or add a QuickLink to help trap comment spammers. If you've already installed a honey pot there's nothing you need to do. The form traps necessary to catch comment spammers are likely already being delivered to your honey pot. Login to your account and check out your Dashboard to see what comment spammers you've helped catch. As always, if you're prefer not to get these updates, simply login to your Project Honey Pot account and switch off notification emails under the settings tab. Stay tuned for our big mid-week announcement tomorrow. Until then, make sure to let your blogging friends know there's a new way to track comment spammers and we need their help! The Project Honey Pot Team ============================= Project Honey Pot c/o Unspam Technologies, Inc. 1901 Prospector Avenue, Suite 200 Park City, UT 84060 Tuesday is day two of the Five Days of Project Honey Pot Announcements.
Yesterday we announced QuickLinks which allow even more people to help
with the Project. Today we are announcing that Project Honey Pot has
begun tracking a new kind of online beastie: Comment Spammers.

If you’re not aware, comment spammers crept up from the depths in the
last few years. They are robots are running around the internet leaving
their comments on feed back forms, blogs, and forums. The purpose is not
only to drive traffic to the sites when people visiting the forums click
the links, but also to increase search engine rank by increasing the
number of back links to their site.

To learn more about how we’re tracking comment spammers, please visit:

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/5days_tuesday.php

We turned the system on only a little over a week ago and already have
caught more than 600 unique IPs engaged in comment spamming. We expect
that number will dramatically increase over time. If you haven’t done so
already, install a honey pot or add a QuickLink to help trap comment
spammers. If you’ve already installed a honey pot there’s nothing you
need to do. The form traps necessary to catch comment spammers are
likely already being delivered to your honey pot. Login to your account
and check out your Dashboard to see what comment spammers you’ve helped
catch.

As always, if you’re prefer not to get these updates, simply login to
your Project Honey Pot account and switch off notification emails under
the settings tab. Stay tuned for our big mid-week announcement tomorrow.
Until then, make sure to let your blogging friends know there’s a new
way to track comment spammers and we need their help!

The Project Honey Pot Team

=============================
Project Honey Pot
c/o Unspam Technologies, Inc.
1901 Prospector Avenue, Suite 200
Park City, UT 84060

]]> By: Marcin Kleczynski http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-15610 Marcin Kleczynski Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:27:44 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-15610 It is pathetic isn't it. Hopefully they start cleaning up their act soon. It is pathetic isn’t it. Hopefully they start cleaning up their act soon.

]]> By: yumeijin http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-15545 yumeijin Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:52:41 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-15545 anti-spyware-101.com is also a clone of 411-spyware.com and 411-spyware-remove.com... anti-spyware-101.com is also a clone of 411-spyware.com and 411-spyware-remove.com…

]]> By: AndyAtHull http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-15509 AndyAtHull Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:40:06 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-15509 Don't answer that. They listed it since the 11th. :) Don’t answer that. They listed it since the 11th. :)

]]> By: MalwareTeks Blog : SpyHunter, should this be listed as a Rogue Anti-Spyware Application? http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-15508 MalwareTeks Blog : SpyHunter, should this be listed as a Rogue Anti-Spyware Application? Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:23:06 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-15508 [...] further coverage of this story: 411-spyware.com - The new forum spammers? Spyware Help: Intent Matters Alot:Part [...] [...] further coverage of this story: 411-spyware.com – The new forum spammers? Spyware Help: Intent Matters Alot:Part [...]

]]> By: AndyAtHull http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-15507 AndyAtHull Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:22:46 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-15507 It would be interesting to know since when. It would be interesting to know since when.

]]> By: ShadowPuterDude http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-15501 ShadowPuterDude Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:00:44 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-15501 Spybot thinks SpyHunter is Malware: Spybot S&D Updates 007-04-11 Adware ++ Zango.AntiSpamBar ++ Zango.Seekmo Keylogger + Perfect Keylogger (2) ++ WideStep Malware ++ Free-Key-Logger + InetLoader + Smitfraud-C. (2) + SpyDawn + SpyHunter ++ Win32.Agent.ahd ++ Win32.Optix.b Trojan + 1und1Bill.Fake + Hupigon + NumbSoft + Win32.Lager.aq ++ Zlob.MovieBox + Zlob.PrivateVideo + WarezP2P Total: 373599 fingerprints in 64879 rules for 2804 products. Spybot thinks SpyHunter is Malware:

Spybot S&D Updates
007-04-11
Adware
++ Zango.AntiSpamBar ++ Zango.Seekmo
Keylogger
+ Perfect Keylogger (2) ++ WideStep
Malware
++ Free-Key-Logger + InetLoader + Smitfraud-C. (2) + SpyDawn + SpyHunter ++ Win32.Agent.ahd ++ Win32.Optix.b
Trojan
+ 1und1Bill.Fake + Hupigon + NumbSoft + Win32.Lager.aq ++ Zlob.MovieBox + Zlob.PrivateVideo + WarezP2P
Total: 373599 fingerprints in 64879 rules for 2804 products.

]]> By: kaleidoscope eyes http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-15496 kaleidoscope eyes Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:45:10 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-15496 Would it be considered polite to spam them right back :-) Would it be considered polite to spam them right back :-)

]]> By: MalwareTeks Blog : 411-spyware.com - The new forum spammers http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-15357 MalwareTeks Blog : 411-spyware.com - The new forum spammers Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:08:25 +0000 http://www.securitycadets.com/2007/04/411-spywarecom-the-new-forum-spammers/#comment-15357 [...] Software Group. Advice from these spammers acting as real users should be avoided at all costs!read more | digg [...] [...] Software Group. Advice from these spammers acting as real users should be avoided at all costs!read more | digg [...]

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