Pharma spammers have begun targeting Microsoft's Web properties.

"Search engine poisoners are actively making use of Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces blog hosting environment, net security firm eSoft reports," writes The Register's John Leyden. "Miscreants are creating accounts which they use only to push links to the pharma-fraud sites. As a result the search engine ranking of these spamvertised sites is pushed up."

"The misuse of fake blogs on Live Spaces is a refinement of the well-established practice of link spamming: posting 'comments' on legitimate blogs that supply links to dodgy pharmaceutical websites and the like," Leyden writes.

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