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You may have noticed a severe drop in the amount of spam coming through to you. Two things have factored in to this wonder: our filters are continuing to learn the new profiles coming in, and a data center in California that was a major source of spam was shut down on Tuesday, 11/11.
We’ve all been there — staring at an unreal number of junk messages, wondering “who clicks through on this stuff? How do these guys make any money?”
Well, researchers at UC-Berkeley and UC-San Diego have published a study saying that spammers get, on average, an estimated 1 response per 12.5 million messages. Amazing. Click here to [...]
In the current times a simple the mention of the word spam brings up really bad connotations in the mind of most internet users. Before it would make us sick because we thought of that horrifically salty wannabe pork that came in a can, but now it has a whole new, equally terrifying meaning.
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This morning and yesterday we have seen an outbreak of false phishing emails under the false disguise of an Enom.com email, and now they have expanded this to Network Solutions emails as well. Please note that the actual companies have nothing to do with this, but it is someone using the appearance of [...]
Do you get a bunch of junk mail in your email application that’s coming to you in a language that you don’t even understand? Are you an Apple Mail User? If those are both true please read the rest of this article. I will describe in detail how to get rid of this problem as [...]
Last week Adam blogged about CSS and Internet Explorer which gave you some insight into how to make your site mesh with the amazing browser we all know and love, Internet Explorer (catch my sarcasm?). Well, today there are a few more ways you can read up about accomplishing this feat, and we do consider it [...]
When using webmail.dogbark.com, we advise that you not compose any email over 3 paragraphs (100 words or so) within webmail. The reason for this is that webmail will automatically sign you out after 10 minutes of inactivity (and typing an email does not constitute activity). So if you’re writing a really long email, chances are [...]
Beware of any email you receive that claims to be MobileMe (Me.com) with a billing issue for your account. With the wave of new iPhone users and Mac coverts, Mac users are becoming a larger target for the “black hats” out there. If you do receive such an email, remember that the safest option, rather [...]
Here’s a great article explaining what’s behind the “Daily Top 10″ spams going around. The basic bits of the article are that if you click on anything, it will try to load a fake Flash player. It is Windows-only, but will invade and “phone home” to install more malware from the originating server.
Massive faux-CNN spam [...]
This morning I fell victim to what has become a very common spam technique. I open my Mail this morning and have 248 message coming my way with subjects like “mail delivery failed” or “return mail: see transcript” or “undelivered: free porn”.
Yes, somehow, somewhere, someone used my email address …