Attacked By the Pathetic Wee Beastie Called Spam
The Barbados Blog unknown to me has recently been attacked by the scourge of the Internet, that wee beastie called SPAM. Every time someone visited my site they would have to suffer the pain in the butt of having pop up adds appearing on the pc they were viewing my site on.
The problem of The Barbados Blog and spam was something I never personally knew about because I have a pop up add blocker and everyone else that has one wouldn’t have had to suffer this pain. But for those that don’t have a pop up add blocker and fortunately most computer savvy people nowadays have one, but for those that don’t, go get one, you can get them for free.
Now you may be asking how the hell did the dreaded spam find it’s way on to my blog? Well I downloaded a pretty wee online status flash widget from widgeo/compteur.cc, and it had code imbedded in it to create spam on my site. I added this widget to my site because it was kinda fun to see all the various countries around the world that had people visiting my blog.
I must have had the widget on my blog for about 3 weeks or so, before a kind visitor from China sent me an email making me aware that my site had pop up adds on it and that I obviously wasn’t aware of the problem.
Once I discovered The Barbados Blog had been plagued by a bad rash, I had to find out what was causing the problem. Thankfully with a little bit of help from the master of he universe Google, I eventually found out what had caused my loyal and faithful readers of my blog to suffer the nightmare of pop up adds. The good thing I suppose is that it only took 2 seconds get rid of the widget, now I would just like to get my hands around the neck of the person that created the dam spam.
I really, really hate all kinds of spam, whether it is pop up adds or emails. I don’t know why companies associate themselves with spam, because I personally think it would drive away business, rather than get business.
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hello!
I had the same problem last week.
i checked my blog and was appalled with annoying pop ups. i think it was coming from my chat box.
good thing because the following day it was gone.
i was already thinking of removing my chat box.
cheers!
I would keep a close eye on the chat box and see what happens, because pop ups could drive people away from your site.