As I was checking out my Akismet spam filter one day, I noticed a comment that was labeled differently than most of the other ones I’ve seen. This comment linked to a site called BotMaster. According to the site, BotMaster sells a service called Xrumer that comes bundled with Hrefer which is an automated link-building [...]
August 23rd, 2008 | Jeffro | 5 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "bots"
Twitter Gets The Bird Flu
It looks like the time has arrived for Twitter to step up to the plate and do something about this spam problem. Over this past weekend, I received over 20 different email notifications that so and so was following me on twitter. Only 3 of those people were legit. The rest of them were spammers [...]
April 15th, 2008 | Jeffro | 13 comments | Continued