You learn something new every day I suppose. This came up recently and was new to me. I have probably close to 20 websites I either own or maintain, and I’ve never seen this user agent before:
“Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20070308 Minefield/3.0a1″
Most of the sites I take care of probably don’t fall [...]

… or so this article reports. You mean attackers target people to make money?

Yeah it’s true. Apparently this new site SpiralFrog.com is allowing people to download *select* free music by listening/viewing some ads, filling out questionnaires, and wait for a period of time for the download to occur (giving you time to perform the prior). I’m curious to see where this goes - they say that you can’t [...]