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Try saying that headline five times fast! Spammers are becoming more aware of the steps us bloggers and developers are taking to keep them of off our blogs and articles.

if you are on WordPress, then you should be using akismet which is a software made by Automattic (the creators of wordpress). That is the best wordpress plugin you can have to stop spam. other plugins and software include: Bad Behavior (use at your own risk, can be very buggy) and Spam Karma, and of course captchas. But these spammers are trying to make a living too, and they are figuring out new ways to get around our defenses. One of the latest trends I have seen are spam messages that seem complimentary to your blog, but actually contain links spam sites that could put malicious spyware in your readers’ computer. They stroke your ego to try and make sure you don’t delete their comments. So keep an eye out for comments that are a little too nice. Here are a couple examples;
“so impressive and beautiful thank you for preparing a site admin.”
“I wish to continue your success permanent”

Mouse over the the author’s name and you’ll most like see a shady-looking url that probably sells Viagara.
Be sure to mark them as ‘spam’ so that your akismet spam filter will recognize these types of messages more quickly in the future.

Not all complementary posts are going to be malicious, but if you have a wordpress blog, this is definitely something you need to watch out for.

• WordPress NYC Meetup (@ Sun Microsystems) http://4sq.com/3EpM54 #
• Me too RT @boonebgorges Listening to @sbruner talk about WP as a platform at NYC WordPress meetup. #
• @nycbbb Does that really constitute as a big day? I never heard of either of those guys .. lol in reply to nycbbb #
• I'm at Rebar (147 Front St, Jay St, Brooklyn) w/ 5 others. http://4sq.com/24CzN5 #
• I'm at Reka's Thai Restaurant w/ @djtonyz. http://4sq.com/7Y2Lal #
• @PeteAbe Why would they ruin it by expanding to 96 teams? I hope they keep it like it is in reply to PeteAbe #
• It's pointless to put Pulp Fiction on cable tv #
• Memo to Villanova: You can start playing any time now … To help save my bracket and the Big East's credibility #
• @unclejuicyjoe Looks that way … still a little hope in reply to unclejuicyjoe #
• Jeez .. what a rough weekend for the Big East. I guess #cuse is the only one that matters. Except that my bracket is dead now. #

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