{"id":2227,"date":"2011-10-16T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T02:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2011-10-16T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T02:04:49","slug":"macupdate-flooded-by-spam-suggesting-chinese-product-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"MacUpdate Flooded by Spam Suggesting Chinese Product Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/101611_macupdate_chinese_spam\/macupdate_logo.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"MacUpdate\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nTOKYO (MacHouse) &#8211; If you are a Mac user, you should have heard of a web site called <strong>MacUpdate<\/strong>.   It&#8217;s a very popular web site where you can browse Mac software titles.  This web site appears to be currently flooded by Chinese spam.  If you enter the information page for a software title called <strong>ACLr8<\/strong>, you will see a suspicious site advertisement there.  (See Screenshot 1.)  This site advertisement is posted by someone who goes by the name of <strong>Xiao Mimjj<\/strong>.  If you click on his or her icon, you will see the same site advertisement over at least ten applications.  (See Screenshot 2.)<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"410\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/101611_macupdate_chinese_spam\/macupdate_netetrader_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/101611_macupdate_chinese_spam\/macupdate_netetrader_02_thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" alt=\"MacUpdate spam\" \/><\/a><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 1<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"200\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/101611_macupdate_chinese_spam\/macupdate_netetrader_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/101611_macupdate_chinese_spam\/macupdate_netetrader_01_thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" alt=\"MacUpdate spam\" \/><\/a><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nThe web site sponsoring this spam advertisement seems to be run by a Chinese vender.  Their web site is located at www.netetrader.com.  And its domain registration form suggests that they are from China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (MacHouse) &#8211; If you are a Mac user, you should have heard of a web site called MacUpdate. It&#8217;s a very popular web site where you can browse Mac software titles. This web site appears to be currently flooded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=2227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-mac","category-internet-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}