What is the point of spam?

Anonymous
What is the point of the weird spam that is posted on the ends of long threads like the one below? Can it infect my computer somehow? TIA.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/240/12080.page
jsteele
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I believe that type of spam is a failed attempt to post encoded javascript. I haven't been able to reverse engineer it, but I think that part of what they attempt to post gets filtered out. Never click on any links that manage to get posted in such spam messages.

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Anonymous
Thanks.

What about the ones that have titles like "Will this work" and then the post is something like, "sorry I hurt your feelings" or another random statement. Can they do any damage?
jsteele
Site Admin Online
Those can't hurt your computer as long as you don't click on any links they may contain. The "will this work" posts are most likely test messages that are posted in order to record the steps required to post. Once they walk through the steps, they program the spambots. It's a bit of an arms race. They record the steps to post, I record them recording the steps. They program their spambots, I put in blocks on their spambots. Rinse and repeat.


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Anonymous
Thanks!
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