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[weird things] Of course, in light of current events, I updated the theme and re-added my modifications as soon as the redirects were stopped, sealing this potential vulnerability. Tweaks to my spam filter may also be in order depending on what I find after going through all the relevant logs, but they shouldn’t affect you.

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[Totally Not a Blog] Do malware links to your site hurt you? « Totally Not a Blog: Well, if you run any kind of blog, than you should at this point be well aware of the wall of spam that comes in every now and then and hits either the spam filter, or in the case of Google’s blogspot, they never seem to make it past the captcha. The point is that 99% of the time this spam will fail, and while I am sure that the 1% or less results in some money along the way, the real issued of the point is why do you do it?

[~ ReviewMyGadgets ~] Remove Multitasking from Touch 2g? | ~ ReviewMyGadgets ~ | iPhone ...: _As reported by BitDefender_ (http://news.bitdefender.com/NW1468-en-BitDefender-Warns-of-%E2%80%9CiPhone-Unlocking%E2%80%9D-Malware-Mechanism.html), the malware authors send out spam email promising users a simple unlock. ... yeh attempted to jailbreak which worked for a few days, after clubbing my phone couldnt use the home button to exit apps which was weird, then later trying to on and off my iphone the whole thing crashed and now its on that plug usb to itunes display ...

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[Anil's thoughts and musings] Weird spam - Anil's thoughts and musings: My theory is that the spambots hope I won’t mark it as spam beause it doesn’t look all that spammy and the web address doesn’t exist yet, and then maybe someone would register the blog in the future to host whatever malware. Other than that, I don’t really have an idea.

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[TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch blog] OpenAppMkt provides “App Store” for HTML5 apps | TiPb: I tried installing the google voice app through this (which from what I can tell is the actual google webapp repackaged) and some weird things happen. It loaded (very slowly) fine at first, then I couldn’t access gv at all either through the openappmkt or directly at GV.

[Tripod Club Community Blog] View Comments (5) - Tripod Club Community Blog: My problem is that there are a multitude of roll-over spam links all through the text. These are, to say the least irritating, and in addition, because they are a dark green, make the text difficult to read because the words they are linked ... Again, the answer is the same- you most likely picked up a virus, adware, scumware or malware somewhere in your surfing travels. One such program with instructions on removing it if found, is described in the MS knowledgebase here: ...

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