15 Aug 2016 cbbrowne   » (Master)

Spamalicious times

Hmmph. Google sent me a “nastygram” indicating that one of my blog entries had something suggestive of content injection.

I poked around, and it was by no means evident that it was really so. The one suspicious posting was http://linuxdatabases.info/blog/?p=99 which legitimately has some stuff that looks like labels, as it contains a bunch of sample SQL code. I’m suspicious that they’re accounting that as being evil…

But it pointed me at a couple of mostly-irritating things…

  1. I haven’t generated a blog entry since 2013. Well, I’m not actually hugely worried about that.
  2. I reviewed proposed response posts, since, probably about 2013. Wow, oh wow, was that ever spam-filled. Literally several thousand attempts to get me to publish various and sundry advertising links. It’s seriously a pain to get rid of them all, as I could only trim out about 150 at a time. And hopefully there weren’t many “real” proposed postings; it’s almost certain I’ll have thrown those away. (Of course, proposed postings about things I said in 2013… How relevant could it still be???)

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