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McAfee SiteAdvisor equals spammers

January 15, 2009 on 7:31 am | In Blackhat SEO | 14 Comments

I’m absolutely gobsmacked at McAfee SiteAdvisor. I was checking the feedback for one of my sites recently on there and noticed it has a ‘Email tests’ section.

After reading about it, I realised that what they basically do is send a bot to your website and auto fill any form they can fill with email addresses and fake subject/message (hello, chinese spammers!?).

They then base the spam score on the amount of emails they recieve a month from filling out that form and then how spammy their bot thinks the reply was. In this case it’s given a 50% spam score.

I had replied just once and I can see my email address sitting there as the reply. So I’ve wasted my time emailing back this person JUST IN CASE it was a legitmate email and then they have the cheek to call me an email spammer?

WHAT … THE … FUCK!

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Damn, what a shitty thing… fortunately I get 100s of suck frickin mails a week, so I probably deleted theirs with the chinese spammer crap that cannot distinguish a contact form from a comment form

Comment by Christoph C. Cemper — 15th January, 2009 #
Lol!!

Have not really rated McApee for a while anyways, this just crosses the t’s …

Comment by Dork — 16th January, 2009 #
Hey I told you there wasn’t a proxy server you could build I couldn’t break…….

Checkmate Buddy….

Comment by Keniki — 21st January, 2009 #
I would say its been fun but I have endured huge personal loss… will be fun from now on though as I am way ahead of you……

Comment by Keniki — 21st January, 2009 #
Stick that up your Bean Cushion

Comment by Keniki — 21st January, 2009 #
Ps. The php server side sessions can be faked…….

Comment by Keniki — 21st January, 2009 #
As for me you never did understand or appreciate what I was fighting for did you NURSE.

I was fighting for the right of any individual no matter how large or small to create and develop there ideas online. Free from large internet companies stealing and monitoring there every move, free from adsense network mimicking and destroying a fledgling market. Free from an abusive market leader born from the pornographic industry and dictating its fucked up idea of morality online because it has goverment contracts.

I still think thats something worth fighting for…………

Comment by Keniki — 21st January, 2009 #
If you are what you say you are…. a Superstar….Then Have no Fear…

There is no question UK Stock Market is totally insecure and beeing influenced by a poison foreign feed and probably inside as well. The UK Goverment need a huge security check on all stock markets and to shut down all XML feeds in and out of UK Stock Exchange. All trading restricted to telephone.

This needs to happen immediately!!!!

Comment by Keniki — 21st January, 2009 #
This turmoil you are seeing is beeing caused by a weakness in security of UK Stock Exchange that allows foriegn feeds to decimate prices. A huge security probe must start tommorrow in the London Stock Exchange. XML Feeds in and out must be turned off IMMMEDIATELY!!!!! and the Big Bang must go back to Telephone Trading.

Before this Prime Minister Bankrupts the UK.

Comment by Keniki — 21st January, 2009 #
Anyway hopefully now you have what you need as I S P E L L E D it out for you. You can go back to your Bean Cushions and me, well I’ll have to start allover again.

Its been Emotional…….Bye

Comment by Keniki — 21st January, 2009 #
Esrun, for getting the “warning” removed I hear threatening a lawsuit works. I feel your pain, it’s complete and utter bullshit.

Comment by Moro — 24th January, 2009 #
Nah it isn’t bullshit this vile person set out to ruin many lives with his scripts, he’s not in same class as old skool hackers that tried to free the world this guy is a commercial hacker with only one incentive …..GREED. I have spoken to him and I would describe him as psychotic.

I think this guy has no remorse for his actions and is beyond help. A Sociopath and possibly Psychopath.

Comment by Keniki — 17th February, 2009 #
And besides, McAfee site advisor is a really easy way to ruin a company’s reputation online – it ranks for any company’s name if that company is listed there and anybody can submit a “bad shopping experience” – laaaaame….

Comment by IrishWonder — 8th March, 2009 #
McAfee is a scourge. May not be spyware, but there should be a new category. “Installing crap that I did not explicitly select and screwing up my internet experience”-ware.

Comment by Stephan Miller — 18th March, 2009 #