Friday, October 2, 2009

Captcha has also been captured by the spammers

Most of the people who are running forums and blogs, are well acquainted with “captcha” system. The system was introduced to avoid spammers and to make sure that comments and discussions are done by the real human users. As usual, spammers have got a way out to deceive captcha system also.


Those who have very little traffic on their blogs and forums can review the comments and/or other enteries manually but it is not possible for the massively trafficked sites like facebook, twitter etc. An antivirus company has informed facebook of links, which convince the user that they have got virus in their computer and only a particular software can remove the virus. This artificially manipulated problem and then the solution convinces many users to buy the software.

Facebook was informed that it had many spamy links of the similar type. The anti-virus company AVG indicated that captcha system had not remained as efficient as it used to be. Now the facebook people are examining the way these spaming accounts were made.