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.

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