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Google Sites: Welcome to spammer's place

Submitted by admin on Friday, 5 September 2008No Comment

Google platform for document sharing and collaboration, has been dubbed "SharePoint Light" by many members of the tech community. However, the platform might be getting a new name soon, and one that won't be so nice. Apparently, spammers have adopted Sites as a tool to host spam and malware, and, thanks to the google.com domain name, some spam filters are having trouble blocking the messages.

Here Comes the "Google Spam" According to MessageLabs, Google Sites spam only accounts for 1% of all spam at the moment, but they expect this technique to become as popular as similar techniques being used to distribute spam using other free Google online services, including Google Docs, Google Pages, and Google Calendar.

The benefit to using Sites for spamming is that it's harder to block the resulting URLs generated by the service. Unlike Google Pages, whose URLs are in the format of accountname.googlepages.com, a Sites URL begins http://sites.google.com/site/. The format of these URLs, which contain "google.com," are more difficult for traditional signature-based anti-spam tools to block. At the tail end of the URL, the spammers' sites will contain site names that are composed of random letters and numbers.

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Google Sites: Welcome to spammer's place

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