{"id":935,"date":"2007-10-22T18:01:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T02:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=935"},"modified":"2007-10-22T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T02:06:51","slug":"apple-discussions-plagued-by-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Apple Discussions Plagued by 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; If you need help for the Apple products you own, <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/\">Apple Discussions<\/a> is a place where you can get help from fellow users.  Cyber criminals occasionally manage to post spam comments.  In one occasion, we saw a spam comment in which clicking on a hyperlink redirected to another website with a computer virus.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This time, a cyber criminal posted two identical spam comments under <strong>QuickTime<\/strong> category.  They are both titled &#8220;<strong>Make Thousands of Dollars In Days!! No Joke!! Oprah Had a Show On This!!<\/strong>&#8221;  There is a hyperlink at the bottom of the long message, and clicking on this link will NOT redirect you to a malicious website.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"450\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><a href=\"mac\/apple_discussions_spam_102207\/apple_discussions_102207_01.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/apple_discussions_spam_102207\/apple_discussions_102207_01.gif\" height=\"140\" width=\"122\" alt=\"Apple Discussions spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/apple_discussions_spam_102207\/apple_discussions_102207_02.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/apple_discussions_spam_102207\/apple_discussions_102207_02.gif\" height=\"140\" width=\"122\" alt=\"Apple Discussions spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/apple_discussions_spam_102207\/apple_discussions_102207_03.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/apple_discussions_spam_102207\/apple_discussions_102207_03.gif\" height=\"140\" width=\"122\" alt=\"Apple Discussions spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (MacHouse) &#8211; If you need help for the Apple products you own, Apple Discussions is a place where you can get help from fellow users. Cyber criminals occasionally manage to post spam comments. In one occasion, we saw a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=935\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","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\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}