
April 18, 2010 03:35 by
Admin

It has been brought to our attention that there is a bot (software to impersonate human activity) that has been developed to automate reading and rating of articles, hence fraud the system. The author of this bot, realised there was a simple exploit left open when posting the rating back to the system. The bot would automatically reload pages and wait for articles to become available, then when available it would open them, fake read for random intervals and then submit a rating, then repeat the process - very similar to human activity.
The bot does not work anymore as we have integrated extended security measures to protect the system from fraud as such. The author decided to suspend the "basic" free edition of the program and now sells an advanced version for $49.95. Please do not purchase this as it will not work due to the fact that the exploit has been patched up.
There was a multiple page discussion on one of the forums and has been deleted due to the nature of the discussion.