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Claria quits adware I got Spam?!
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 generation platform designed to provide consumers with a highly personalized Internet experience." http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060321/sftu028.html?.v=46 [...] Read More
Hotbar adware dispute settled I got Spam?!
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 ruling that would allow it to label certain Hotbar.com products as adware (see VB, July 2005, p.3). Under the terms of the settlement Symantec will dismiss the suit, but it will continue to classify Hotbar's program files as low-risk adware. [...] Read More
180 Inside Out I got Spam?!
Jimmy Danniels interviews an x-employee of renown Adware producer, 180solutions. I personally had no idea how much criticism was out there until I discovered Google alerts and turned them on. It was quite an eye-opening experience. There is a company meeting every Monday morning hosted by Keith or Dan during which they talk about stuff coming up, but _normally_ they do not cover negative stories. http://www.revenews.com/jimmydaniels/2006/03/180_from_the_inside_out.html [...] Read More
Adware Maker Sues Anti-Spyware Vendor The Search Engine Weblog
Adware maker Zango is tired and sick with having their "software" removed from computers by PC Tools, makers of the popular Spyware Doctor software, without due notification. Representatives from both Zango and PC Tools confirmed that Zango had filed suit against the antispyware vendor. However they declined to provide details on the lawsuit except to say that it involved a dispute over the way Spyware Doctor rated Zango's software. In a statement [...] Read More
Adware Stealing My Computer, Money and Precious Time The Personal Finance Weblog
What a bad day I had yesterday. Somewhere along the way I hit a Web site that forced malware/adware onto my computer. If you've never had this happen to you, it's bad. And it's not hard to do. There are many sites out there set up to look legitimate, but as you surf around, clicking a link on one of these sites could actually lead to malicious programs being set [...] Read More
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on April 30, 2010
Using tarpits to get back at spammers I got Spam?!
There's a nice step by step tutorial on Benzedrine.cx explaining how to get revenge on spammers by using tarpits. The author says: "I don't like getting spam. The problem is not detecting it automatically, that works very well with tools like SpamAssassin and bmf. Even though I can automatically delete spam without reading it, the spammers still successfully deliver their mails and get paid by volume. I want to hurt them. [...] Read More
Spammers Using Google To Evade Filters I got Spam?!
According to a researcher at Websense Inc, spammers are now using thousands of Google accounts to get past spam filters. Instead of including links to the website they want people to visit, they insert a link from Google Page Creator. "They'll send out a big long spam run, and include the URL they registered with Google Page or a blog service," Dan hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense, told [...] Read More
Infamous Spammer Sandford Wallace Busted Again I got Spam?!
Infamous spammer Sanford Wallace has been busted again-this time for using Myspace to spread his spam and spyware. Wallace began his spamming career more than a decade ago, resulting in lawsuits from AOL, CompuServe, and Earthlink. As a result he agree to stop spamming but ultimately did not. He closed his company, Cyber Promotions, but later started a new one called odysseus Marketing with some partners. [...] Read More
Spammers As Friends The Social Networking Weblog
I get them all the time. Friend requests from people who are nothing more than spammers. They create these nice profiles and ask me to add them to my friend list. I usually read through a profile before I add someone. I catch a lot of them. Spam profiles. Sometimes I don't catch them and add them to my friends. Later they start sending me messages from their spam site [...] Read More
Google Pages Revamped To Fight Spammers Java Entrepreneur
You all must be knowing that Google had done away with a feature in Google Pages which enabled users to create different websites with different addresses but don't worry as the company has now revamped the feature and introduced it again. With Google Pages you can create web pages using AJAX interface and forget about creating pages using HTML or other desktop applications. Besides creating web pages you can also [...] Read More
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on April 20, 2010
Anti-virus, pro-spam? I got Spam?!
The PCWorld contributor Erik Larkin published an interesting article telling us about the new AOL free standalone antivirus program called Active Virus Shield. He's concerned that by signing an EULA he's allowing AOL and its partners to send him spam: "You also agree to receive electronically from us periodic notices about Active Virus Shield and other services that may be of interest to you.",points Erik one part of the AOL [...] Read More
Judge Orders End to Weight Loss Spam Organization I got Spam?!
A U.S. judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop sending spam promoting it's weight-loss and anti-aging products. The judge also fined Sili Neutraceuticals nearly $6.2 million dollars for violating the CAN-SPAM Act and the FTC Act. Judge David Coar said the company violated the FTC act by claiming that users of their hoodia products would lose 40 pounds a month, and that using Human growth hormone would reverse [...] Read More
Sponsored Post: Multiple Levels of Spam Blocking Necessary I got Spam?!
Creating a spam free environment is a panacea; however the best approach of blocking spam may also be the most annoying to the end users affected by it. A number of anti spam vendors use several levels of protection, on the ISP, the network edge, the mail server(s) and on the users machines themselves, normally in the form of a plug in to the mail reader, other vendors promise to [...] Read More
Spam is here to stay The Search Engine Weblog
Spam has found a fertile dwelling and it is here to stay. Why? This is because eliminating spam is next to impossible. There are persons who receive 50 emails every day and they consider it part of their daily life. The fact is businesses - whether big or small - have a strong motivation to send bulk email. This is because compared to regular mails or hiring telemarketers, said method [...] Read More
Automating Virus and Spam scanning using Amavisd-new HackITLinux
To those who are using Linux on their mail server will find this tutorial useful. Whilst Linux is not really prone to getting virus unlike that other operating system from Redmond, more often than not, clients connecting to the Linux-based mail server run that OS from Redmond. It is important to add virus-scanning tool in the server to filter all viruses before they reach the client. In addition, spam is a [...] Read More
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on April 10, 2010
1/3 of spam pictures I got Spam?!
You can say a lot of things about spammers, but you can't say they are not resourceful. Once they've seen how much of their illicit e-mail is being stopped by filters, they've soon figured out to use .gif (picture) spam format to get past the anti-spam software. Monsters and Critics Michael Thieroff reports that almost 1/3 of today's spam is in fact pictures: "Olaf Pursche, a security expert for the Hamburg-based magazine [...] Read More
Mapping spam I got Spam?!
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 billion spam emails. The most of it comes from the US, which might surprise you. But the sad truth is that we are perhaps the most computer-stupid nation, since most of the spam comes from zombie [...] Read More
Gif spam again I got Spam?!
I have noticed that even though our providers promised to make .gif spam go away, I still get bundles of it (of course, it's automatically redirected to my Thunderbird trash folder). Although many of spam-fighters started employing the ocr tehnique to distinguish unsolicited adverts from pictures people send you, that tehnique is becoming obsolete, so it's advantage for the spammer team again. How come, you might ask? Well, first of all, [...] Read More
Spam is here to stay The Search Engine Weblog
Spam has found a fertile dwelling and it is here to stay. Why? This is because eliminating spam is next to impossible. There are persons who receive 50 emails every day and they consider it part of their daily life. The fact is businesses - whether big or small - have a strong motivation to send bulk email. This is because compared to regular mails or hiring telemarketers, said method [...] Read More
Are Online Dating Seniors Less Likely To Use Pictures? The Dating Weblog
There was an article last week about online dating which discussed it from the perspective of daters in their fifties and sixties. At one point, the article mentioned that the woman who was waiting at a restaurant for her date to show up didn't know what he looked like. And that leads one to wonder ... are online dating seniors less likely to concern themselves with photos than someone in [...] Read More
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on March 31, 2010
Receive only one mail - disposable e-mail service I got Spam?!
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 here you ask? Well, you know all those sites that force you to register in order to see full content, leave comments or download things? Although many of those are perfect in keeping [...] Read More
Get disposable e-mail Firefox plugin I got Spam?!
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 e-mail (forums, websites, blogs...register forms etc.) But, the thing I was really interested in were the Firefox disposable-email extensions Ghacks writes about. Apparently, there are two Firefox extensions providing this great service. One is Create disposable e-mail address [...] Read More
10 minute mail I got Spam?!
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, website subscriptions and lots more! As the maker said: "By clicking on the link below, you will be given a temporary e-mail address. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on [...] Read More
Howto : use google's imap and mail application as GTD tool Web 2.0
Google recently enabled imap on all gmail accounts - a great move. Google already offered pop3 download of email, but that didn't really cut it. Imap offers full sync, which means that mails marked as read on your mailclient are immediately marked as read on the gmail site. That's what I call syncing ! But there's more you can get out of this. You can create a nice GTD application using [...] Read More
Disposable DVD-to-Video Camera The Gadgets Weblog
Designer Jennifer Murphy has come up with a way for consumers to make a DVD recording without buying an expensive DVD video recorder. Of course, that technology is getting cheaper by the minute, and Murphy's disposable dvd recorder is planned to be available for as low as $15. The concept is the same as the disposable still-shot camera. You take the pictures, then you go to the store and have [...] Read More
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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 generation platform designed to provide consumers with a highly personalized Internet experience." http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060321/sftu028.html?.v=46 [...] Read More
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 ruling that would allow it to label certain Hotbar.com products as adware (see VB, July 2005, p.3). Under the terms of the settlement Symantec will dismiss the suit, but it will continue to classify Hotbar's program files as low-risk adware. [...] Read More
Jimmy Danniels interviews an x-employee of renown Adware producer, 180solutions. I personally had no idea how much criticism was out there until I discovered Google alerts and turned them on. It was quite an eye-opening experience. There is a company meeting every Monday morning hosted by Keith or Dan during which they talk about stuff coming up, but _normally_ they do not cover negative stories. http://www.revenews.com/jimmydaniels/2006/03/180_from_the_inside_out.html [...] Read More
Adware maker Zango is tired and sick with having their "software" removed from computers by PC Tools, makers of the popular Spyware Doctor software, without due notification. Representatives from both Zango and PC Tools confirmed that Zango had filed suit against the antispyware vendor. However they declined to provide details on the lawsuit except to say that it involved a dispute over the way Spyware Doctor rated Zango's software. In a statement [...] Read More
What a bad day I had yesterday. Somewhere along the way I hit a Web site that forced malware/adware onto my computer. If you've never had this happen to you, it's bad. And it's not hard to do. There are many sites out there set up to look legitimate, but as you surf around, clicking a link on one of these sites could actually lead to malicious programs being set [...] Read More
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