Oopsie - a bit of a 'physician heal thyself' moment
Concurrent with running a website like this, there are people out there who try to use the site for their own advertising. On a blog, this comes in the form of irrelevant comments. These are usually advertising for PPC -- Pills, Pron or Casinos.
Naturally, the sysops will use scripts to look for this activity and nip it in the bud. My own net caught a machine at 192.28.2.6 trying to post two comments for two separate websites.
Since the IP address ended in a six, I took a closer look as whenever an IT Geek sets up a network, the first 20-50 addresses are generally reserved for IT usage (servers, switches, routers, NAS, etc...)
Low and behold, it turned out to be from a company called
MarkMonitor
From their website:
Company
Headquartered in San Francisco, with regional offices and operations centers in London, Boise, Washington, D.C., and the New York metro area, MarkMonitor is the global leader in enterprise brand protection. More than half the Fortune 100 depend on MarkMonitor to help safeguard their brands online.
So basically, a machine at MarkMonitor is hosting a spam bot and this bots output is passing through the MarkMonitor firewall undetected.
Not exactly the caliber of talent that they claim to be...
Posted by DaveH at December 24, 2008 8:47 PM
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