Security Focus warns that the number of botnets has almost tripled in the last couple of weeks: "The weekly tally of bot-infected PCs tracked by the group rose to nearly 1.2 million this week, up...
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by Ivy on March 06, 2007
We all love forums, because you can share your opinion, get expert advice, exchange news with members, form communities and stay within boundaries, since there are always moderators to delete any...
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Fighting spam in not a chore for the slow-thinkers. As spammers adapt swiftly, so must the fighters, and HexView says there could be a good statistical chance to significantly lower amount of spam. I...
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by Ivy on February 14, 2007
I'm getting a feeling that a lot of security experts, already burnt by the massive spread of e-mail spam, are now getting over excited about SPIT, working to extinguish the crime before it's...
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by Ivy on January 16, 2007
I don't know how prevalent SPIT really is, but Grand Central recently deployed first of a kind VOIP spam filter. The press release says: "(GrandCentral Communications) announced the release...
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by Ivy on January 15, 2007
Although I don't usually mend people's computers for free, nor for money anymore, I recently got a hysterical plead from my mother to check out what's going on with their neighbor's...
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by Ivy on January 03, 2007
Well, I'm sure a lot of you don't know squat about html or encoding, but would still like to be able to have e-mail contact with your readers. So, instead of surfing the web and googling(TM)...
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by Ivy on December 20, 2006
The Redmond guys are taking spam more seriously than ever. Microsoft has recently issued a widget for its Outlook e-mail client which lets you report junk mail as it comes, leaving it to Microsoft to...
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by Ivy on December 10, 2006
Ok, I think that by now every living being in the developed world has their own Gmail account. And with it dozens, if not tens of dozens of invitations, which are translated to new e-mail accounts at...
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by Ivy on November 30, 2006
Although there are hundreds of free ways to lessen spam coming to your inbox, and I have written about a tom of them, did you ever wonder if paid services give you a better degree of security? Can...
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by Ivy on November 23, 2006
One more free service which can definitely help you to keep your inbox free of spam is the 10 minute mail. You can simply click to get a disposable e-mail, which can be used for forum sign-ups,...
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by Ivy on November 09, 2006
We all have this problem, don't we? CAPTCHAs are simply not enough anymore to stop spammers from seeding your comment fields and various contact forms. Only last week we suffered a spam flood,...
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by Ivy on November 08, 2006
Jim Harper over at cato@liberty ponders that CAN-SPAM is not worth even the paper it is written on. Or disc space if you wish. In fact it is costing us a lot of $$, and does nothing really. He...
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by Ivy on October 25, 2006
Thanks to Dataflex I found out another great free online service which helps you fight spam. As we all know, now and than you want to put your email address somewhere, be it a blog, MySpace or...
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by Ivy on October 19, 2006
Martin Ringlein over at Maryland Media blog has found a handy way to stop automated comment spam in blogs. I know we all suffer from that pests, so if you're java handy, and even if you're...
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by Ivy on October 12, 2006
If you read your mail using MS Outlook, then this is your lucky day! I've found that Techallica points to a Spam Bayes Outlook plugin, which sounds very interesting and useful. The plugin is open...
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by Ivy on October 04, 2006
Although I have recently written about 'get one mail' service, I have found a list of places offering disposable e-mails on Ghacks, so check it out if you're in a need of spam honeypot...
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by Ivy on September 20, 2006
As one of the readers requested, I did my best to find ways to stop comment spam on MT powered blogs. The first thing I did was to go to sixapart/movabletype website and look there. Sure enough,...
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by Ivy on August 30, 2006
Is putting ISP's on blacklists, marking them as spam friendly and blocking their traffic an act of terrorism? Overstock from TechRepublic certainly thinks so: Terrorists? Yes that's right. One...
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by Ivy on August 28, 2006
If you have to display your e-mail address on your website or blog, than you must be freaking out from the amount of spam you're getting. But, do not fear! Instead of thinking of different ways to...
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by Ivy on August 24, 2006
I must admit I am using the 'get one mail' tool very often recently. I came across it on a forum somewhere and went to check it out, have to tell you I was impressed. What's the deal...
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by Ivy on August 16, 2006
If you're running a Wordpress blog and get comment spam by the tons, there might be an easy solution, and a nifty one on top. As the admin from Internet Tech Blog discovered, one man is fighting...
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