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Several companies hid spam in what looked superficially like a userpage. Therefore I treated these pages as spam and blocked the spammers. Others seemed to be using their uerpages for commercial promotion of their own work so I also treated these as spam. For some reason Wikiindex is | Several companies hid spam in what looked superficially like a userpage. Therefore I treated these pages as spam and blocked the spammers. Others seemed to be using their uerpages for commercial promotion of their own work so I also treated these as spam. For some reason Wikiindex is attrative to spammers, perhaps we haven't got good spam filters, perhaps an index attracts readers that spammers hope will buy their products. There is certainly a risk that inocent work can be mistaken for spam. [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] 14:37, 21 August 2009 (EDT) | ||
== zombie computer == | == zombie computer == | ||
How do we check if a spammer is a [http://computer.howstuffworks.com/zombie-computer.htm zombie computer]? is there any way we can alert the owner? [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] 01:44, 12 July 2009 (EDT) | How do we check if a spammer is a [http://computer.howstuffworks.com/zombie-computer.htm zombie computer]? is there any way we can alert the owner? [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] 01:44, 12 July 2009 (EDT) | ||