In those cases it was probably caused by a trojan in an ad, but this is another way they are spreading viruses, by buying ads on sites.
Link farming is a major annoyance in the WP community, but this sounds more like the site was taken over and sending malicious code out. That would be dealt with by a bot looking for links to the site and take-downs on the link. As anyone who has complained about link-farming knows, the hosts can’t really do much about it officially unless there is a copyright violation. I get a feeling that the link was leading to malicious software.
CG and the crew he hung out with have been pretty bummed out lately with Area 51 being their last refuge on the ‘Net, so they may have just moved on to other things.
It is highly unlikely HSD or the FBI would go for the subpoenas required for take-down orders. They generally want to watch what happens at ‘sites of interest’ until an arrest is made. They would look at it as more evidence of whatever they think you are doing. People are under a bigger threat from corporate censorship than the government.
]]>I have removed the “offending” link on my WordPress.com blog… but I have been up for 24 hours dealing with this and I’m now giving serious thought about whether I will continue to trust WP or simply switch back to Blogger. At present I’m leaning toward the latter, though I do not like the Blogger interface nearly as well. I welcome your opinion.
]]>The only reason that I stay with my current spam filter on comments is that it occasionally lets something through to be moderated, and what it lets through isn’t always obvious until you look at the sites they reference in the name. Some of the others are just too restrictive.
Software is no smarter than the people who wrote the specifications that were coded.
]]>As usual when I move, my generic forwarding address http://www.yellowdoggereldemocrat.org will take you wherever I’m blogging at the moment. Right now, while I try to resolve the WP conflict, I’m at my old Blogger blog. I may be stuck there forever; who knows.
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