Anyway, an unavoidable facet of blogging or the Web 2.0 framework in general, wherein the web publisher allows their visitors to submit entries such as comments, is the fact that you will be dealing with a lot of spammers who will use every trick in the book to exploit your system. This blog is no exception. I do, however, care and try to monitor and try my best not to let spammers inundate this blog with useless crap.

It is a standard practice for all Web 2.0 systems developers to provide some form of spam protection in their system and it is wise for the users of these systems to utilize these protections in order for them to avoid getting their site inundated with junk and their mailbox with even more junk.

I am not sure if the company well-known for their efforts on ensuring security , Microsoft, missed this simple concept or they simply don’t care. In the past two days that I have not worked on this blog, I received several comments on one of my entries and to my disappointment , they are not from fans of this blog but from spammers…

One of the items that I found interesting in this spam entries, however, was the URL that they were using: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ucccommunitygovernance/thread/<and-some-gibberish-link>

Yes this is the link the the Microsoft’s Technet forums. Technet where most Microsoft Geeks go to figure out how to battle the Microsoft gremlins that pops-up everytime the tech giant runs an update … At first I thought that the URL was simply spoofed, common practice used by Phishers. But as I look further, it is a valid Microsoft link. So I followed the URL and I landed on a spam site. I backtacked the links and ended up here.

Yes ladies and gentlemen most if not all the forum topics in that site will lead you to a spam site… Attention Mr. Ballmer, I didn’t know you love spammers so much… I don’t remember even Bill Gates being this sloppy. It is one thing when it is happening in MSN or other Microsoft run community sites. It is an almost accepted menace, but FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, this is a tech site. A RESOURCE FOR PEOPLE WHO FIXES THE DAILY PROBLEMS YOUR SOFTWARE BRINGS!!! And even that site now brings more problems…

WAY TO GO MICROSUCK!!!

Ok in slight fairness to Microsoft, they are not the only site that is supposed to provide a community and resource, but is left alone to become a hub of spammers. This is one example… Moving forward, I’ll try to monitor sites like this and will report as I find them… Will also report if anything else changes…