On Friday, May 5, 2006, 1:08:14 PM, John wrote: JTL> Well, I am at the point that I could care less about geocities false JTL> positives. If GeoCities is going to allow this much spam junk then I could JTL> care less about allowing them.
That's fine. There are probably a number of systems that feel that way. I only meant to say that we've tried a "block-first" strategy w/ geocities before and had to remove it. YMMV. You should also know (may remember) that the blackhats experimented a while ago with using several other hosting sites, including msn, and seeding them in round-robin fashion so that they all appeared in each campaign. Since this experiment stopped abruptly I doubt that it has been abandoned - rather, it was put on the shelf for a while. At the time it was clearly effective for them. I think it likely they will do that again (don't know when) since they are putting some new effort into this path. I don't have any evidence of it yet. I discovered that on 20060503 the blackhats made some significant changes to their use of geocities links and their transmission patterns. I've re-tuned the F002 bot to compensate and it is currently reviewing a handful of new geocities links every minute and adding approximately 1.2 new rules per minute. I suspect that the lull we observed may have had something to do with their "tooling up" for this set of campaigns. _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
