The latest abandoned right-wing blog to fall victim to blog-hijacking spammers is:
http://disillusionedandbored.blogspot.com/The same affiliate scheme used for
the Out From Under hijack is being used to redirect visitors to a different destination URL, in a effort to get a bit of that red-hot 'finger wave' action:
http://supersearchbar.info/search.php?q=finger+wave&ref=
Disillusioned & Bored used to be home to the
Voluntary Code Free Zone (the genesis of which has been hastily preserved
here).
Manic would love to pause and enjoy the subtle irony of that, but there is work to be done!Recently-abandoned British political weblogs need to be checked for similar hijacks and a list of hijacked blogs needs to be tallied and published.
Why? Well, as a 'just for example' type thing, this recent series of hijacks presents Iain Dale with a small problem; there's no telling how many blogs in
his 'definitive' list of British political weblogs now feature links to hardcore pornography (and unprincipled faux-outraging members of opposing parties could easily misrepresent this eventuality in order to cause him
embarrassment further embarrassment).
Happily, Iain Dale also presents us with a possible solution...
he has one of the longest blogrolls in the entire world!
Manic has some web-browsing to do, and he will check in shortly.Manic has spoken. Further communication to follow.
UPDATE - These blogs have been abandoned and then hijacked by spammers, and you may want to remove them from your blogroll(s):
http://disillusionedandbored.blogspot.com/
http://comingoutfromunder.blogspot.com/
After trawling through Iain Dale's impossibly-long (but suddenly useful) blogroll, Manic also found the following:
The David Coleman blog has been spammed in a new and exciting way:
http://davidcolemancf.blogspot.com/
It is not advisable for newbies with unprotected PCs to visit the page hosted at the above location, or the URL it redirects to:
http://go.drivecleaner.com/OTAzMg==/2/4012/ax=1/ed=1/ex=1//
The Injured Cyclist has been hijacked by a Japanese spammer pushing 'Windows Vista' on the cheap, by the looks of things:
http://theinjuredcyclist.blogspot.com/
The Dave Mills and Pete Kelly blogs are dead, but not spammed:
http://davemills.blogspot.com/
http://peteskelly.blogspot.com/
That appears to be it for now. Complaints have been filed with
Google for all spam that has been found...
but if you find any more, please tell Manic!Two side-bars:
1. It was interesting to note how many political bloggers are repeating Iain's mistake of putting all of their eggs into a single Blogger basket.
2. There are many other corrections that need to be made to Iain's record-breaking blogroll, but Manic was mainly chasing Blogger users... and he is not Iain's housemaid.
Manic has spoken. End communication.
UPDATE (16 Mar) - Since this post went live, the spam/re-direct has been removed from http://disillusionedandbored.blogspot.com/ and all past blog entries appear to be been reinstated in full (comments and all). No new posts, though. How odd.
Manic has spoken again. End communication again.
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