I’m starting to see pingback spam on both of my blogs. A ‘Ping-Bot’ is dropping pingbacks onto my blog posts that link to unrelated commercial content. Technically, the attack is indistinguishable from a genuine pingback, they aren’t really doing anything against the rules, since they are actually linking...
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Tim Long
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Tim Long
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Sun, Mar 1 2009
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Following reports of increased virus activity, specifically concerning the Win32/Conficker.B/Downadup virus, Microsoft has taken the unusual step of asking prominent members of its technical communities – such as MVPs – to circulate advice to the public. TiGra Networks does not normally recommend forwarding...