I woke up this morning to multiple spam comments to recent postings from someone using the screen name "Look."
The characters look Chinese. Here are a few of them:
情趣
按摩棒
and checking my Site Meter stats, I did have a visitor from Taiwan who apparently left 9 comments. His IP was not displayed and when I clicked on the domain, it required a password.
The "Look" screen name links to a blogspot site, but the Chinese characters hyperlink to I don't know where--I wasn't going to click on them and risk having my computer attacked by someone obviously placing parasitic code all over my site. And to get past my Captcha code, plus looking at the brief time interval between each comment, this appears to be the work of a human operator, not a spambot.
Anyway, I reported the Look blogspot to Blogger as a spam site, so we'll see what they do with that. In the mean time, be on the lookout for this piece of crap enemy, and do not click on his links. If you already did, make sure you do a virus/spyware scan immediately.
If you have a blogspot blog and have experienced this attack as well, feel free to add to the knowledge base.
And remember--we hold primary responsibility for our own defense in the virtual world, too.
Wouldn't you rather we have some sort of 911 for the Internet? I'm envisioning something we could fund with taxes...of course to ensure Electronic Officer safety, we'd need to tighten down on a few things of course...hate speech, homegrown online terrorism, that sort of thing. But you'd be safe from this kind of attack, David. If your computer gets a virus, you could call Internet 911 and they could take virtual pictures of your corrupted hard drive, interview the bad sectors, and lament that there's no way anyone could've seen it coming and that "this sort of thing just doesn't happen here."
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