De-Cloaking Splogs
There are a lot of helpful articles on the internet which makes the scourge known and then gives you help on what to do with splogs and other malware that may be preying on your blog. Spam Blogs are hard o detect for they employ some crafty workings of using the same cloaking technology malware uses. Though they are very distinctly different, they share common features such as stealing others property for ones own gain and spreading to each and every blog it can before it is detected and disabled. Browsing around, the many samples of splogs have been taken offline by their respective providers which makes them harder to detect. There is also a rising concern that the thin line that differentiates malware and splogs are thinning making them one of the biggest threats to the internet world.
One other difficulty with splogs is that they are more often than not created by bots or automated programs that are harder to detect than just simple plagiarism. Readings on the subject, splogs can be used to your advantage should you acquire the right know-how on who they are and using forwarding schemes, sending them garbage as opposed to your true content. But this action is a double-edged sword that can either get you back control to your blog or hence anger the beast and get more attacks than you can deal with. Plagiarism is also a real and present threat to all the hard-working bloggers out there who did their jobs coming out with content that is casually stolen in what seems to be fly-by attacks. This characteristic is similar to a method malware bots use that uses known vulnerabilities and capitalizes on them scanning all holes that have not been plugged and using wide open doors. Splogs have been plaguing blogs since blogs began and peopel should be aware of the tools that have been developed on how to deal with them. More on the matter next time as we try to find tools and helpful hints on how to properly deal with such splogs, that are truly clogging out our blogs getting praise for what is rightfully ours.
