Sophos

5 August 2008 13:19 GMT

Spaces Live Microsoft's flagship social networking site (ab)used

As I type a large spam campaign is abusing spaces.live.com Microsoft’s flagship social networking site.

A typical message using spaces.live.com:

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The obfuscated part of the domain is a random username.

If you were to click on the site you would see a page similar to this:

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When you follow that link you will get to a generic RX site:

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I have bravely clicked on the links so you don’t have to and we would recommend that you take the spam pledge and never click on links in spam.

Pob, SophosLabs, UK