Free Web Hosts Are Now Targets For Spammers

Spammers have found a new way to avoid being blocked immediately. They are surviving for longer periods without being discovered by using free web hosting services. They are doing this by jumping on the backs of some legitimate free web hosting companies for as long as they can. This has come to light after a report by security company McAfee.

McAfee’s Spam Report for January 2010 has brought to light the fact that there are a growing number of spammers who are now signing up with free web hosting companies and are getting free subdomains as well as free hosting. The access to a third level domain that they are more often than not given means that to others they appear to be a genuine site. It is here that the problems begin.

One of the main reasons for this increasing trend is the fact that spammers are aware that they will get blocked much quicker if they are not associated with a genuine site that has been existing for a while. The fact that the free web host has been operating for a while means that they will more than likely have had genuine traffic directed to it. This can result in a longer delay before spam blockers actually block the host. More than a billion messages could be generated during this delay .

The report by McAfee has identified free web hosts which have links with 0catch.com as the most likely web hosts to be targeted. This is because they do not do anything to stop spammers from hosting malware and they have no problem providing free hosting to anonymous persons.

This all provides even more reasons for those wishing to set up a legitimate online business to steer clear of free web hosting. Paying for good quality web hosting is something that all genuine online businesses should choose. This will enable them to prevent spammers from destroying all the hard work they have put in to their online businesses.

When you decide to go into internet marketing, you should make sure that you have web hosting dealt with beforehand. Newbie’s can find, though, that the web hosting world can be rather confusing. For example, you may come across reseller web hosting or even linux web hosting while searching different options.