{"id":1001,"date":"2008-01-17T00:12:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T08:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2008-01-17T00:37:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T08:37:32","slug":"mac-related-websites-fall-victims-to-affliate-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Mac-Related Websites Fall Victims to Affliate Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nTOKYO (MacHouse) &#8211; <strong>The Omni Group<\/strong> (<strong>omnigroup.com<\/strong>) is the developer of Mac-only cool applications including <strong>OmniWeb<\/strong> (web browser) and <strong>OmniGraffle<\/strong> (illustration).  <strong>MacRumors<\/strong> (<strong>macrumors.com<\/strong>)&#8230;  We don&#8217;t often go there, probably once a month at most.  But I suppose it&#8217;s a popular hangout for Mac users to exchange information.  The forums of these 2 popular Mac-related websites have been exploited for affiliate spam.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As shown in Screenshot 01, affiliate spam posts circulated in the WordPress blog community.  If one clicked on the 2nd hyperlink, he or she would be directed to a specific post at <strong>forums.omnigroup.com<\/strong>.  There is a hyperlink above a big screenshot.  This hyperlink is supposed to forward Internet users to the website of <strong>mens-medication.com\/viagra\/<\/strong>.  It&#8217;s a fake online pharmacy store.  Likewise, the forwarding link at <strong>MacRumors<\/strong>: <strong>Forums<\/strong> will direct Internet users to <strong>pills-deals.com\/cialis<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"460\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/spam_comments.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/spam_comments.gif\" width=\"140\" height=\"38\" alt=\"Mac Forums Omni Group affliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 01<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/mac_forums_spam.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/mac_forums_spam.gif\" width=\"140\" height=\"126\" alt=\"Mac Forums Omni Group affliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 02: Source &#8211; macrumors.com<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/omnigroup_spam.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/omnigroup_spam.gif\" width=\"140\" height=\"126\" alt=\"Mac Forums Omni Group affliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 03: Source &#8211; omnigroup.com<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"295\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/mens-medication.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/mens-medication.gif\" width=\"140\" height=\"126\" alt=\"Mac Forums Omni Group affliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 04: Source &#8211; mens-medication.com<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/pills-deals.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/011608_mac_forums_omnigroup_spam\/pills-deals.gif\" width=\"140\" height=\"126\" alt=\"Mac Forums Omni Group affliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 05: Source &#8211; pills-deals.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (MacHouse) &#8211; The Omni Group (omnigroup.com) is the developer of Mac-only cool applications including OmniWeb (web browser) and OmniGraffle (illustration). MacRumors (macrumors.com)&#8230; We don&#8217;t often go there, probably once a month at most. But I suppose it&#8217;s a popular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=1001\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}