Spam On User-Generated Web 2.0 Content Websites

Spammers are not hiding themselves in the crowd of forum posters and web 2.0 kind user generated content websites are one of the most popular targets. Here are some astounding stats:

95% of comments on blogs, chatrooms and posts on forums are spam
69% of content classified as objectionable had at least one malicious spam link
78% of new web pages discovered in the first half of 2009 had at least one malicious website link
77% of ‘malicious website pages’ were actually genuine websites that were compromised with malicious code.