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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 29, 2006
According to this article, spam in Britain has risen for 50 percent in the last two months alone: "As Christmas approaches, the daily trawl through in-boxes clogged with offers of fake Viagra,...
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by Ivy on November 28, 2006
Only in America a victim can get even more traumatized and forced to pay absurdly high fines. Is our legal system a big mockery, a flight over a cuckoo's nest? Cnet News reports about Mark Mumma,...
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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 22, 2006
Thanks to our gods, spammers are no longer making money on dreaded stock pump-and-dump spasm (like the one on the photo, I received it only today), so we are sure it will soon stop. The Register...
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by Ivy on November 21, 2006
As it turns out, only one slip, one click, one reply, can make you a victim of spam e-mails for years and years to come. Spam and spammers never die, which was proven by Bob Sullivan over at The...
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by Ivy on November 15, 2006
Who is the person behind 'Vi@gra, stock or win!' unsolicited e-mails that fill your inbox? Well, Spamhaus put a name and a face to ten worst spammers in the world: "This TOP 10 chart of...
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by Ivy on November 14, 2006
50000 Google video subscribers received Kama Sutra virus to their inboxes last week, compliments of Google, reports ZDNet: "W32/Kapser.A is better known as the Kama Sutra worm. Some antivirus...
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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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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 November 07, 2006
According to Help Net Security, SpamThru Trojan is responsible for a vast increase in both spam and virus infection among PC users: "The developers of SpamThru exploited numerous tactics to...
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by Ivy on November 03, 2006
Cameron Marlow of Overstated warns about Flickr related spams. He recieved an e-mail asking about his photo published on Flickr. The link provided took him to a website which has nothing to do with...
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