My past opinion was that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft had sufficient resources to protect my computer when I connected to one of their properties. That may not be true!

I use both Yahoo mail and gMail to handle most of my email communications since I thought their platforms were well protected by industrial grade spam and virus protection. After all, these are the “big guys” with vast resources.

It appears as though spammers have found a way around Google’s CAPTCHA routines on Blogger after having hit gMail and Hotmail.

Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker™ technology has discovered that spammers, in their recent tactics, have targeted Google’s well-known blog publishing system “Blogger” aka “Blogspot”, following the streamlined Microsoft’s Live Mail Anti-CAPTCHA, Google’s Gmail Anti-CAPTCHA and Microsoft’s Live Hotmail Anti-CAPTCHA operations.

The big problem now is the new danger of going to a blogspot.com web site which may be set up by a spammer. The site may redirect you to the spammer’s web site or another web site that they want to advertise.

This little detour might also give the spammer the ability to drop some nasty software or spy bot on your system (depending on your security settings.) Since Blogger and gMail are usually considered safe spots by most anti-virus software, it’s possible that the AV software will not perform its most thorough security checks for traffic coming from either location.

The highlighted article is a little techie, but it shows the lengths to which spammers will go to “make their buck.”