Affiliate Spam: The CampusCGI Facility at Princeton University Exploited

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TOKYO (MacHouse) – Princeton University… It’s America’s top-ranked university. According to USNews.com: America’s Best Colleges 2008, Princeton University is ranked No. 1 for the category of America’s Best Colleges > National Universities. They have tens of billions of dollars of endowment. They have intelligence and money. But Princeton University doesn’t seem to have power to stop affiliate spam.

Princeton University’s subdomain campuscgi is dedicated to providing CGI scripts. And an affiliate spammer appears to use a CGI script to redirect visitors of a particular page at this subdomain website to a famous online pharmacy store. Which one? It’s Canadian Pharmacy (thecanadianmeds.com). It’s a home of pharmacy affiliate spam. They are not good at stopping pharmacy spam but are good at recruiting affiliate spammers. They have hundreds of spam soldiers, perhaps, at least 570 of them?


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Screenshot from campuscgi.princeton.edu
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Screenshot from thecanadianmeds.com






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