End of the Road for Trackbacks?
I’ve just deleted two trackbacks that led directly to malware installation routines posing as Anti-Virus scanners. On IE7, it was necessary to switch off the iexplore process manually to get the windows to stop. I’ve scanned for any traces using Spybot - S & D and seem to be clean.
This is obviously really annoying for all of us, and if I find this trend continues, I’ll be forced to switch trackbacks off altogether. It’s difficult for the spam detection filters installed on the site (Akismet and Spambot Assassin) to detect these latent attacks, and the risk of damage to readers’ data - with me as an unwitting accomplice to the attackers - is very worrying.