New Blogspot Trickery?

This last weekend I was perusing the Blogspot domain for fake\rogue pages which re-direct users to fake scans to get malware installed. Or to try and goad users into purchasing fake security software, which in and of itself is also malware.

As I was tracking the sites, which btw is easy as pie if you know what to look for, I noticed a new trick they use. Instead of either having a pop up box which just slides down the page as you scroll or have you click a link to generate a pop up, they have the page load and if you click anywhere on the page, a new instance of IE starts up, at a fake scan page. No matter where on the page you place your mouse, if you click, that's what happens.

I'm having a look at how this is done and will provide more on that as I get the info.

I'm not coder by any strecth, so I need to talkk to someone who is.

New Template= Zero Hits...WTF??

Ever since I changed the temlate on this blog, as of Oct 21, give or take, this blogs hits have tanked literally to zero, according to Google Analytics.

Yet, my referrer logs indicate blogspot domain links as the most linked from by far, which it has always been. How is this possible?

Maybe something I need to change in settings for analytics? Somethings out of friggin wahack here for sure.

Some Minor Additions To Malware Advisor

Hi folks, today I've added some things to my blog which were options of Blogger.

You can now see all my labels or tags as listed below in order of total posts per that particular label\tag.

I also now display people who are following me. Over at Feedburner this number was supposedly 51. Not sure how the Blogspot one will work and if it will get to that number.

I've also enabled the gadget so you can see some of the blogs I'm currently following. Mind you there are only a small amount there as I'm currently following close to 150 in my reader, but I don't want to add all those here.

Hope these lil additions will make following me easier or just improve the over all ease of use of the blog and perhaps searching.

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Malware On Blogspot....Again!

Well Saturday nite I went cruisin' for malware on Blogspot. And I'll bet ya can't guess what I found there?

UPDATED: Blogger\Blogspot Malware Gang

Well I've posted this info about these blogs in several forums, even posted to StopBadware.org. Lets see how long it takes Google to remove these, even if they are not currently spewing malware. My documentation ought to be good enough. Updated Info......

Google BlogSpot:Malware Source Part 2

Yes, that's right, the BMG have recently changed things up for the worse since last time.

Now you can get, along with the latest info in the blog sphere, a Vundo\Virtumondo infection, any form of SDBot variants, RDBot backdoors and Zlob infections. Of and it goes without saying you'll also be able to get the generic annoying type of adware that comes with the previously mentioned goodies.

And I didn't have to do a thing, just land on one of the thousands and thousands splogs which are set up just to do this, spread malware. Google knows about them. Myself and one of the Blog*Stars have communicated information all about this amazing nastiness running around. All you have to do is go 'Next Blog' hunting. But I warn you not to do this unless you have a machine you don't care much about and has no data on it, because these blogs can crush the average machine to bits.

See what I got with no effort at all. And pray you don't ever run into one of these. Google BlogSpot: Great Place For Malware