Tuesday, July 28, 2009

My name in cryptic websites?

I did a websearch for my name and email address to see what comes up. I discovered my name and email address is being printed in strange cryptic websites speaking jibberish. What is this about? It looks malicious. Here is a sample copy of what I found:



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My name in cryptic websites?

so this is a pay per click advertising page. there is hundreds of random words on the page which is designed to appear high on search engines due to the amount of links and words. people click on a link and the creaters of the site get a small amount of money.



your email address is on this page (along with other peoples) probably because it was collected by some automatic process off of a website (i was able to find your email address in other locations on the web)



this page did have some obfuscated javascript. It was probably the worst attempt at obfuscation i have ever seen hehe. anyways it looks like they are using the obfuscated javascript to possibly do some pay-per-click abuse. (making each visitor appear to click on advertising links that they did not intentionally do). I didn't follow this too deeply because it didn't look malicious, just .. dishonest. ;)



so anyways nothing to worry about. and... when posting your email address on websites try to use things like



youremail at yahoo dotcom



or



youremail ~a~t~yahoo dot-com



so your email address doesnt get autoharvested by shady stuff like this and spam bots. it will cut down on how much spam email you receive.

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