Spam filters only in certain catagories?

[kcbuckshot]

Does anyone know if they turn off the spam filters off for certain catagories? Example: search for "online casino" (no quotes) #10 is www.cazino.net Lots of almost hidden text, and what I would consider spam in the meta tags. If you look around, I am sure you can find 100 more examples of this. Anyone know what's going on?

[seth_wilde]

I don't think it's a case of AV turning off the spam filters for certain categories. It's just that in highly competitive industries (like porn or gambling) your going to see more spam.

It's really a fine line for AV to walk, they want to eliminate spam, but at the same time when ever they turn up their spam filters they knock out "innocent" sites at the same time (and get many angry emails and posts in forums).

This cazino.net is blatantly spamming with hidden text, but when they change the hex codes enough to aviod detection, how can AV come just turn up the filters without knocking out legitimate sites?

[kcbuckshot]

The fine line makes sense. I'm not one of those guys that's "trying to make the internet a better place" I'm trying to make my bank account a better place, just bothers me to have to compete with blatant spammers like this, and many others.