Monthly Archives: August 2007

Demonoid Falling Victim to Spam Banners

Demonoid is a popular BitTorrent website. This popular website is visited by several hundred thousand Internet users daily. It will be a scary thought that such a popular website is attacked by cybercriminals with affiliate comments and pop-up spam windows. … Continue reading

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Internet Security: WordPress.Org Webpage Hacked

6 months ago, a spam group cracked popular blog software’s website and installed a hacked version of blog software. Several hours ago, WordPress.Org’s website was cracked again. This time, a spam group replaced WordPress.Org’s documentation page with an article to … Continue reading

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Restricted Access to TorrentSpy and Lost Revenue

According to its blog and forums, popuar BitTorrent website TorrentSpy has closed its door to U.S. visitors at about 12:00 AM, August 27. Their decision of shutting the door to U.S. traffic comes from legal implications, according to a blog … Continue reading

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Destroying Spam Domain: ErrorProtector.Com

Again, soon after we put ad codes from AdBrite back on, we got a spam pop-up window on our web browser. This time, it’s ErrorProtector. They claim that they sell an optimization tool to speed up your PC. But this … Continue reading

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Review on Advertising Network for Publishers: Clicksor

Similar to AdBrite, Clicksor supports various ad types with which publishers can turn traffic into a profit. They have conventional banners that are available in 10 different sizes. They also have inline text ads and sponsored page ads. Although Clicksor … Continue reading

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