{"id":403,"date":"2007-02-17T13:15:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T19:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=403"},"modified":"2007-05-26T23:17:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T07:17:25","slug":"is-it-microsoft-xeler8rcom-or-us-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Is it Microsoft, xeler8r.com or us (1)?"},"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><\/p>\n<p>The other day, we searched the Internet with help of Google for good Adobe After Effects tutorials.  Then we ran into xeler8r.com.  We saw a category that said &#8220;Web Links.&#8221;  It looked like we could add a link to our website.  &#8220;Huh, nice!,&#8221; we thought, at first.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mac\/xeler8r_spam\/hotmail_spam_xeler8r.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/xeler8r_spam\/hotmail_spam_xeler8r.gif\" width=\"256\" height=\"180\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had to register.  All right.  So we set up a new Hotmail account <strong>only for this purpose<\/strong>.  We then registered an account at xeler8r.  We received a message concerning account activation.  And we clicked on the link.  Our account was activated.  Great.  And we added a link.  <\/p>\n<p>One week passed.  Two weeks passed.  Hmm&#8230;  Nothing happens.  Our link request was apparently ignored.  Then at Day 16, we received a porn-related spam message, which is titled <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chi(k gets her sweet ass pounded&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mac\/xeler8r_spam\/xeler8r_spam.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/xeler8r_spam\/xeler8r_spam.gif\" width=\"276\" height=\"181\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem is that there are only three parties that are aware of this Hotmail account.<\/p>\n<li> Microsoft &#8230; We use one Hotmail account to receive messages each from only single untrustworthy website.  And this is the first time we received a spam message.\n<\/li>\n<li> xeler8r &#8230; It&#8217;s the only source of spam besides us and Microsoft&#8217;s Hotmail.\n<\/li>\n<li> MacHouse &#8230; Us?\n<p>Maybe, the administrator of xeler8r.com should register an account and add a link to see what happens for himself\/herself.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, we searched the Internet with help of Google for good Adobe After Effects tutorials. Then we ran into xeler8r.com. We saw a category that said &#8220;Web Links.&#8221; It looked like we could add a link to our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}