Peaches Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Google picks up third spot in spam-friendly shame listBlogspot exploits and Gmail scams slammedBy John Leyde"Google has leapfrogged Microsoft to reach third place in a blacklist of spam-friendly ISPs, compiled by anti-spam organisation Spamhaus.org.Microsoft, which cropped up at fifth place on the November edition of the same list, has cleaned up its act to the extent that it no longer appears in the rogues' gallery of the ten ISPs that are slackest in dealing with junk mail problems. Previously Microsoft's live.com and livefilestore.com web properties were soft targets for penis pill purveyors, advance fee fraudsters and other junk mail swine, but this has changed over the last month or so.In the latest edition of the list, Google domains posed a far greater problem, making it onto the roll of dishonour for the first time. Data from the Spamhaus Blocklist (SBL) database points to 31 spam-related issues on Google domains. Lack of diligence on Google's part means that 419 fraudsters are using Gmail, Google Docs has become a channel for spam redirection as well as "seemingly endless abuse" on Google's blogspot.com, according to Spamhaus.org."Story: The Register - http://tinyurl.com/9f2oty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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