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 News
by Ivy on January 30, 2007
IT Networks write about two South Koreans who allegedly sent out 1.6 billion spam emails over two months: "The men, one aged 20 and the other 26 years old, are alleged to have broken the law by...
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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 News
by Ivy on January 26, 2007
Well, we knew that already, didn't we? No one in their right mind would consider MySpace anything but a laughable hobby, and absolutely noone should leave any real info on it. Apart from the...
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Filed in archive Fight!
by Ivy on January 24, 2007
Did you ever want to report a spammer but didn't know how to do it exactly? Or did you even try to look at the message-source of the spam e-mail and didn't even know where to start from? Well,...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on January 22, 2007
Roger A Grimes from PC Advisor warns that internet, as we know it, is one big nasty pile of criminal traffic: "In 2006 alone, a third of all US adults had their identity and financial information...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on January 18, 2007
Although image spam is kind of a genius spam answer to evolved text spam filters, image spams are becoming more incomprehensible by the day. But, e-mail servers are suffering nonetheless, because...
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Filed in archive Anti-Spam Tools
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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Filed in archive Anti-Spam Tools
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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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 Fight!
by Ivy on January 10, 2007
We all know that to win the war you need great tactics, weapons and people who fight. And although spam filtering is getting better every day, there is little done to track down spammers, write and...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on January 08, 2007
While the fairly innocent Zack questions his ways for promoting his new website by writing (original) content and adding his articles to Digg, Del.icio.us and other aggregators and bookmarkers, some...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on January 04, 2007
According to Computerworld, we can blame Rock Phish for the steady rise in phishing over time: "Security experts estimated that Rock Phish is responsible for between one-third and one-half of all...
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Filed in archive Anti-Spam Tools
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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Filed in archive Malware
by Ivy on January 02, 2007
My inbox has been full of New Year congrats for quite some time now. As I suspected, I didn't become wildly popular since last year, but it was the spam-virus campaign that was in its full blow...
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