The number of exploited websites of American colleges and universities is so huge that MacHouse is no longer able to notify each department, each college and each institution of affiliate spam problems. We wrote to Association of American Colleges and Universities several days ago and asked them for their cooperation in combating affiliate spam surrounding high education systems. But our request has been ignored.
If you are from a college/university whose website has been exploited for affiliate spam, we advise that you stand up, talk to other victims and form a cooperative body to hunt down whoever is responsible. For removing spam pages will not solve the problem at all.
Furthermore, MacHouse has proceeded to destroy some of spam domains, which we hope will soon be inactive in a few days. We regret to inform that we resign from this volunteer work in securing safe Internet enviroments.
Therefore, from now on, we will spend less time taking care of other people’s business. MacHouse needs to go back to its expertise. It’s time for us to concentrate on producing video tutorials for Mac users and its members.
Administrator
I’m sorry you aren’t getting paid to do this.
Your articles have been posted on NowPublic.com
but I can totally relate to the time issue.
Just getting rid of spam in my user accounts from my two websites takes tons of time.
ut one of them just started getting spam.
do you review other webhosts?
May i suggest Hostroute.com that’s where most of my spam started up from. Not very good support. sometimes days before they would respond to a support ticket, and some hacking too. would notice strange scrambled codes at the bottom of my pages.
Some spammers were using my addresses to send, and the support team said to change my email addresses. Didn’t helpmuch. Even after removing all email addresses.
What does keep them out of some of my boxes is this little trick:
(moreinfo at yoursite dot com )
sorry, it didn’t take the whole comment
check the code, click on it. see what’s in your mail to: field.
One obvious one (comments) didn’t work but this one did, and the ‘info at’ did.
Kept them out of boxes that they used to flood.
otherwise I have an article about it on my blog. will send you the address if you like. but not on the site.
Rene
>do you review other webhosts?
No.
>Even after removing all email addresses.
I’m sorry to tell you. But once
you get themthey get you, you can’t really stop them. You can stop using and discard those e-mail addresses.