We are kicking it in April and this is your chance to win a free Apple Ipod Shuffle with 1 GB memory! The rules are pretty simple and the survey is easy, more than easy... It's just a matter......
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Filed in archive by randy on March 29, 2006
Nick Gerakines: Malware Complaints is a site that has been set up by helpers and administators of many help forums for people to complain about the spyware they get. Anything from a short note to a...
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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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As announced in the main page of Creative Weblogging, we will be giving away prizes to lucky readers of the network in April. Sometime next month, we will be conducting a survey, and all you have to...
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Filed in archive by randy on March 28, 2006
Virus Bulletin: Symantec has reached an out-of-court agreement in the pre-emptive lawsuit it filed against marketing firm Hotbar.com Inc. In the unusual case, the anti-malware vendor sought a court...
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Filed in archive by randy on March 24, 2006
Suzi Turner: Yesterday the news hit about another zero-day exploit for Internet Explorer with code publicly available and today the malware pushers are already using the exploit.......
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Filed in archive by randy on March 22, 2006
Suzi Turner: Claria announced today that the company will be out of the adware business by the end of the second quarter. In April Claria will launch the beta version of PersonalWeb(SM), a "next...
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Filed in archive by randy on March 19, 2006
Like most Nigerians, you're probably finding that it's increasingly difficult to earn a decent living from email. That's why you need to attend the 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference....
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Filed in archive by randy on March 17, 2006
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Google Inc.'s Web search systems infringe on a publisher's copyright. [cut] Judge Surrick's ruling found that Google enjoys projection...
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Filed in archive by randy on March 16, 2006
Marcel Marchon uncovered a rather clever IRS phishing scam. The subject and body of the email follows. IRS Notification - Please Read This. After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity...
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Filed in archive by randy on March 15, 2006
Nick: For anyone who bought a CD that contained the Sony XCP rootkit, this is a reminder of the settlement that you are entitled to. You are entitled to receive a new CD without the rootkit on it, as...
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Filed in archive by randy on March 06, 2006
It seems the 419 email scam is live in well in now lives in Silicon Valley. Alec Saunders reports that a venture capitalist has been emailing startups saying "I am working with two Tier 1 funds...
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Filed in archive by randy on March 06, 2006
Today was the beginning of a brand new blog comment SPAM attack on my KBCafe blogs. Hundred of comment SPAM, each slightly different, so that I couldn't isolate a pattern and ban just that...
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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 by randy on March 02, 2006
Anthony: I was recently attempting to mail some javascript code from my yahoo account to my gmail when I came across this vulnerability. Apparently javascript will run if it is withing the preview of...
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Filed in archive by randy on March 02, 2006
Suzi Turner: Media Girl blogged that the Minnesota Republican Party is distributing CDs asking voters about their views on gay marriage but that CD is collecting data from members and transmitting it...
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Filed in archive Malware
by randy on March 01, 2006
Thoughts? original......
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Filed in archive by randy on March 01, 2006
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft on Tuesday posted a non-security-specific update to Internet Explorer (IE) 6. While the Redmondians didn't advertise it as such, the new bits are a direct result of the...
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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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