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For the past two years up to March 2010, spammers have abused the Microsoft spaces.live.com free service to set up redirections to their spammed sites. Microsoft was chosen as the abuse victim for these reasons Microsoft is abundantly aware of the severity of this issue. The redirection URL lends itself to ready detection and suspension via an automated tool, given that it follows a fixed format, and redirects to an easily detectable, albeit growing, range of target sites.

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  • For the past two years up to March 2010, spammers have abused the Microsoft spaces.live.com free service to set up redirections to their spammed sites. Microsoft was chosen as the abuse victim for these reasons Microsoft is abundantly aware of the severity of this issue. The redirection URL lends itself to ready detection and suspension via an automated tool, given that it follows a fixed format, and redirects to an easily detectable, albeit growing, range of target sites.
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  • For the past two years up to March 2010, spammers have abused the Microsoft spaces.live.com free service to set up redirections to their spammed sites. Microsoft was chosen as the abuse victim for these reasons 1. * it is free, reducing the cost of the operation to the spammers 2. * live.spaces.com is such a large provider of web sites, that few URL blacklisting services would be likely to blacklist email containing links to it, in fear of creating many false positives 3. * Microsoft's abuse reporting system is inadequate, and the company's responsiveness is woeful 4. * redirection URLs in spam would result in only the redirectors being blacklisted if at all. The redirection target sites effectively "fly under the radar" and are less visible for reporting and suspending by registrars. Microsoft is abundantly aware of the severity of this issue. The redirection URL lends itself to ready detection and suspension via an automated tool, given that it follows a fixed format, and redirects to an easily detectable, albeit growing, range of target sites.
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