Xblock Spazbox Investigation
This is a long (and disturbing) piece with lots of resources to read. Wayne Porter starts off with:
Prepare for a digital journey into computing hell…
SpazBox- Just Because You Don’t see it Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t There
My team spent this weekend doing a lot of research on a curious domain called spazbox. net (Warning- do not visit the site unless your defenses are optimized). It was truly an enigma in terms of drive-by downloads and that is what attracted my team to the site.
*I killed the live link to spazbox in the quote, so if you *really* want to go there, you know what you need to do.
A digital journey into computing hell - that about sums things up doesn’t it? Unbelievable what people are doing out there just to make money.
Terry:
April 13th, 2005 at 9:35 pm
Oh this story just gets better and better:
http://www.revenews.com/wayneporter/archives/000594.html
“I can only imagine how much traffic laundering is going on everday that merchants and networks have no idea about…makes one shudder doesn’t it? Or perhaps they do know which is even scarier.”