Spammers have come up with a way to avoid being detected for longer. They are surviving for longer periods without being discovered by using free web hosting services. They are doing this by jumping on the backs of some legitimate free web hosting companies for as long as they can. A report by security company McAfee has brought this despicable trend to our attention.
The Spam Report by McAfee for January 2010 has shown how these spammers are joining free web hosting companies and are utilising their offers of free hosting and free subdomains. The access to a third level domain that they are more often than not given means that to others they appear to be a genuine site. This is what causes the problems.
The reason for this growing trend is because it is not as easy to block a site that has been legitimately in existence for some time as it is to block a brand new infected site. The fact that the free web host has been operating for a while means that they will more than likely have had genuine traffic directed to it. This means that there could be a significant delay in the length of time it takes the spam blockers to block the host. This delay can give the spammers time to generate more than a billion messages .
Any free web hosts with links to 0catch.com are seen to be the ones that will be most likely to be targeted by spammers according to McAfee. This is because they do not do anything to stop spammers from hosting malware and they have no problem providing free hosting to anonymous persons.
Legitimate online businesses should use these reasons for not choosing free web hosting. Those who want their businesses to thrive should only choose reputable web hosting that they have to pay for. They can then make sure that spammers do not spoil their business.
Anybody thinking about venturing into internet marketing should have hosting sorted out. Newbie’s can find, though, that the web hosting world can be rather confusing. An example of this could be coming across reseller web hosting or even linux web hosting when you are looking at different hosting plans.