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Information Technology News Beware of Google links says Symantec researcher | Beware of Google links says Symantec researcher |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 06 November 2007 | |
      
The trick is to take advantage of the inurl and intext search operators so that the search only finds the page being spammed, and then adding a parameter that simulates the user clicking on the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. Google's inurl operator restricts the results to URLs that contain the following string, while intext does a similar job on the pages' contents. Links in any email should always be treated with caution, but the growing use of URL classification and filtering services may be making some people careless. "As usual, spammers keep changing their techniques to defeat the filters, but on the other hand, we develop new techniques and technology to counter them," said Symantec's Jitender Sarda. |
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