Cpapian wrote: ↑Sun Apr 01, 2018 11:55 am
I haven't followed the links, but Pugsy did you say they were dead ends?
In that case maybe it's just a game between a couple of youths, to see who can get more hits or higher on the search engines.
The recent Chinese bot university stuff...that's been around for over 10 years at various websites.
If I google a bit of the content I get hits with broken links but not a lot of them. Just enough to know that this crap has been going on for a long time and I don't think it's kids.
The other day I was on a forum with a live chat and the live chat was infected with live Chinese university spam.
And get this...it was a forum on security for how to prevent this crap. They had a serious problem going on.
Near as I can tell there are no active links in the Chinese university/school spam.
I fail to see the purpose myself but I guess someone does because somebody is spending a lot of time and effort to do it and has been doing it for years. Only reason that I can think of...money. Somebody somewhere is paying someone to do this...to set up the bots and all.
The few stragglers that remain to get a "hit" if using google...not worth it I would think. It's always bits and pieces anyway.
It's not like the normal spam where their is an active link to go buy something....like Nike shoes or whatever.
The Chinese dude with his university stuff...he still comes by here daily. I see him trying his crap but the new security in place is preventing him from flooding the forum. Yesterday he made half a dozen attempts at various time during the day.
Nothing after I went to bed last night but sometimes he still tries the middle of the night crap too.
At the same time the new security is also preventing 99% of the normal usual spam with links...so that's a plus too.
Still see an old straggler slip through but they will only slip through once.
The justice axe is swift when that happens.
Spam as been around ever since there was the start of the internet. It's not going away. We just deal with it as best we can.
I am just thankful that I don't wake up to thousands of Chinese spam to have to clean up. The random stuff...piece of cake to deal with and for the most part you guys never see it.
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