Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on April 05, 2007
Except from filtering, reporting, fighting against, loathing and cursing spam which comes to your inbox everyday, there is, as it proves again an again a ton of fun stuff you can do with unsolicited...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on March 21, 2007
We already know how many spammers there are, and now Discover shows us where there are hiding. Discover Magazine posted a nice map of spam hotspots, which was made by pinpointing origin of over 1...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on February 26, 2007
Don't you just hate receiving text spams? I kind of got used to email spam, but when I get it on my mobile it really pisses me off. How did they even get my number? I'm not listed anywhere....
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Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on February 13, 2007
I remember times, some years ago, when people with little morals and a big urge for a high page rank and keyword search position included white on white (yellow on yellow, black on black and so on)...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on January 31, 2007
In this brave new world there really are companies who cherish their reputation, and more importantly for us, care enough to get their newsletters, offers and other subscribe adverts out into your...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on January 30, 2007
Frantic Industries says that 94 per cent of email is in fact unsolicited, which leaves us with 6 per cent of emails which we in fact want to read. Although this is nothing new to us all, the author...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on January 11, 2007
Andrew Graydon from SC Magazine likes his spam raw, so he doesn't implement any spam-filters to one of his addresses in order to track down what's happening in the spam sending world. In his...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on November 13, 2006
Lorelle, that wonderful blog blogger, has done her best to remind us what is blogging all about: writing and getting comments on our writings. Fearing of spam we have made it as difficult as possible...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on September 13, 2006
Well, although I have said on numerous time that spammers are smart, they obviously consider receivers of their spam mail dumb and ignorant. I have in the last couple of days received over 100...
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on April 19, 2006
Shane Keats: On March 23, New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer sued Gratis Internet for allegedly selling its users' personal information in violation of its own privacy policies. Gratis,...
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on April 15, 2006
Tired of getting email spam all day? The nice thing about fax spam is you can only get one at a time. Turns out, if you leave a fax number on your domain registration, then you will get fax spam.......
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on April 09, 2006
Hormel foods has a position statement on the use of their trademarked term SPAM. We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE, although we do object to the use of the word...
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on April 07, 2006
Ryan Singel: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been on a crusade against spammers and spyware companies, but it's a wonder anyone actually knows about it. I called yesterday asking to...
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on April 07, 2006
Engineers at Google (including Matt Cutts) have modified a McDonalds toy to detect SPAM. They are currently tracking a large amount of SPAM in the San Diego area.......
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on March 28, 2006
Ben Golub, CEO of Plaxo: To everyone who hated getting Plaxo update messages, felt we were generating acquaintance spam, or otherwise were harmed by the service, I personally apologize on behalf of...
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on March 04, 2006
Adrian Pritchett: A little while ago I wrote a message to a friend, and after I clicked to send I got a CAPTCHA screen that said I had to verify the code in a graphic to send the message. It......
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on March 02, 2006
Lee Gomes: There is a new and insidious threat to the World Wide Web: a slowly rising tide of "original content" on Internet sites that is at best worthless, and at worst possibly even...
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on March 01, 2006
Chris Pirillo: We wish to express our serious concern with AOL's adoption of Goodmail's CertifiedEmail, which is a threat to the free and open Internet. This system would create a two-tiered...
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Filed in archive Malware
, Spam
by randy on February 28, 2006
Guess What? I'm now blogging for Creative Weblogging on our new I GOT SPAM blog. Like this blog, the topic is malware. I likely won't be cross-posting much and spending more time on the new...
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on February 07, 2006
Antone Gonsalves: America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. on Monday said they planned to launch certified email services that would bypass spam filters and deliver messages directly to subscribers....
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Filed in archive Malware
, Spam
by randy on February 02, 2006
Last week, I had the forturne of one of my x-cow-orkers joining the malware photo sharing Website called Ringo. While trying to get this persons photos, Ringo asked me for my MSN username and...
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on February 02, 2006
Just a thanks to the . original......
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Filed in archive Spam
by randy on February 02, 2006
I'm getting some awefully creative comment SPAM. It would seem they are writing on topic, even quoting other blogs and bloggers, but adding hidden links via <SCRIPT>, <NOSCRIPT> and...
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