Originally Posted by
OverThereTooMuch
Many spammers post a link to an image.
Anyone know the reason for this? Is it to track pageviews (not sure why this would be interesting), or are they trying to spread some sort of corrupted file with malware?
This is still happening quite frequently, and has been for the past few months. I notice it quite easily as it comes up as a large broken image due to a restrictive proxy I have.
It is almost always a link to the same website (lifeh...) preceded by a section of text from a previous poster in the thread. The spammer always makes 6 posts.
Should be simple to flag/block links to that website?
No idea what the purpose of the spam is though..