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The free hosters have been placed in a tough position because they do not want to shut down legitimate users, but they also
do not have the technical resources to mine spam for Web pages that are being misused, O'Donnell said.
Lately, however, the hosters have been partnering with security vendors to address the problem.
Cloudmark is working with some hosting providers, hoping to sell them "reputation" information that tells them how many times
their member URLs are being seen in spam.
McAfee has been providing similar information to an undisclosed service provider, Kelly wrote. "This relationship has cut
the abuse observed by us on that provider by over 90% in less than a week."
He added, "let's hope those spammers are buying their new watches from pound$hop rather than Bolex this summer."
The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.
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