Sunbeltblog comments
Well done, Adam. I'd like to know what Google plans to do about this.
Nice find, I stumbled upon a couple of these types of 'link' pages as well just earlier today.
One thing tho, am I reading this right in that you've been investigaing this for 'months' but you only just now notified Google?
One thing tho, am I reading this right in that you've been investigaing this for 'months' but you only just now notified Google?
No, what Adam was saying is that we've been monitoring these comment spamnming bots (they place comment spam). Not these pages. These pages are pretty new...
Has Google corrected this yet? Also, what type of Vulnerability does this try to exploit, IE, Windows, etc?
Brandon
Oh Ok Alex, I guess I'm glad I stumbled upon them last Friday and posted about them so Suzi could pass the info on to Google as she said she did.
Too bad I don't have a team of researchers at my disposal like you guys, LOL.
Keep up the good work.
Maybe Google can black list these sites.
(P.S. What happens if you get a dialer on your computer but you have a cable internet connection that doesn't use dialing?)
as somebody who uses sunbelt software specifically because it was recommended as the most effective for dealing with this type of backdoor;
and as somebody who is actively involved in viral marketing, seo, gooogle argorhythms etc., this news was especially interesting to me.
the part most interesting is the recent google algorhytmn upgrade, which many in the industry felt would actually reduce the odds on the bots ur talking about having a net effect on elevating page ranks.
this cuases me to think there is something else going on as well. i recognise the program generating the "infinity" page...and word was that program was viewable by google a while back.
so...is gooogle bluffing about all the changes? is there reallly any difference on the content side in how gooooogle ranks sense? or is it confined to the changes they have made that are disempowering lower cpc within adwords?
Google looks "clean" now (it did already yesterday night here (ECT time zone) BTW.) Yahoo also looks clean, at least when using the keywords in the first report about this here.
What amazes me, is the sheer silence by Google et all in this matter. Perhaps my view on this is wrong, but - when we use one of these search engines - we aren't just "users", we are also customers, and as such I feel we have the right to know.
Perhaps we shouldn't just vote with our money, votes, etc., etc., but also with our queries on search engines...
the question is the "right to know" what?
and the answer would be gooogle's "proprietary" algorhythms for search.
there is already a well-stated bias--in the colouring--that google favours those who spend money with it.
those who spend money are seeing increasingly odd ways for google to manipulate results.
but to return to the essence of the thread, there is something wrong, imho, with hosts who hold these exploiuts on their servers.
one of the hosts i use won;t let me ftp a file with the word "pay pal" anywhere in it--to prevent it being associated with phishing. the file has to be edited by hand for each instance after being loaded.
actual spam sending servers can get blocked by ip. google could probably do the same with ips listede as exploit senders...
a place where sunbelt and people like them get back into the loop.
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