Microsoft research into webspam

Microsoft just released a research project they think can catch webspamming attempts.

Strider Search Defender: Automatic and Systematic Discovery of Search Spammers through Non-Content Analysis

I also found their application Strider URL Tracer interesting. Too bad it doesn’t look secure from what I’m seeing? Keep in mind that the visitors to my blog are likely to use this tool for the most risky tasks. Anything that uses the actual Internet Explorer to visit questionable sites isn’t secure. They say you should use a virtual system or non-mission critical machine in order to do Batched Scanning. I’d head that warning…

They married it to Internet Explorer because of its other uses, of course.

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