Spam levels are returning to normal following the recent takedown of crime-friendly ISP 3FN, which temporarily interrupted the operation of a significant spam spewing botnet.…
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Spam levels bounce back after botnet takedown
Well, look what the spam cat just dragged in - address book importing spam from Bebo.
Why is it that these various social networking and other sites seem to simply consider the incidental spam attendant to address book importing (if they think about it at all) to be the cost of doing business - and, mind you, a cost sent COD to the people receiving the spam - when in fact it’s really an occupational hazard?
Doesn’t Bebo realize that the reason that the spam from Bebo ended up in our junk folder is precisely because of these not-best practices? (We’ve written at some length on the business hazards of these practices over on our corporate blog here and here.)
Haven’t they learned from Flixster’s experience, and the dozens of comments from people complaining about the Flixster address book importing spam, and Flixster’s CEO’s ineffectual attempts to explain away the spam?
Do they really want their Wikipedia entry to have an entire section dedicated to their spamming and “common complaints”, like Flixster does?
Of course, Flixster is hardly the only company guilty of this practice, which is getting more and more common. Facebook,
Quechup, and countless others, are all doing it.
Which brings us back to the primary question, which is: why are they doing it, if it leads to spam, bad feelings about their company, and more?
The pat, and somewhat superficial, answer is “because everyone’s doing it.” But the underlying reason is because the more users that a social networking site can boast, the more its perceived worth, and the more its perceived worth, the greater the likelihood of a big fat cashout payday, when someone buys them. In other words, they want to make themselves into an attractive acquisition target, and to do that they need to bloat their user rolls.
In the end, yes, it’s all about money. After all, what’s more important - the integrity of your inbox, or their cashing out?
Remember the days when people started businesses because, you know, they wanted to be in that business?
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Miscreants have created a Michael Jackson mass-mailing worm.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Jackson mass mailer adds to attack onslaught
A security researcher is calling for action against Chinese internet firms which are failing to protect their services from abuse by cybercrooks.…
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China spam crisis provokes researcher’s ire
The Internet and e-mail access have opened up an entirely new universe of communication and convenient discourse to millions. However, all the good they seem to provide can be spoiled by nothing more than an inbox full of spam e-mails. These days, those unwanted and unsolicited e-mails are more than just a nuisance, many of them are illegal.
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Reverse Email Search - Here is a Great Way to Stop Annoying Spam
E-mail has revolutionized the way we communicate. In just a short amount of time, it has become a resource that most of us feel we would be hard-pressed to live without. But for all its promise and convenience, e-mail comes with a downside - spam.
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Reverse Email Searches - Now You Can Find Out Who is Spamming Your E-mail
It is perhaps the most widely-known worm in all history of worms. It struck the computer world in 2001, and infected a big number of computers all over the world.
I Love You Worm spreads through email as an attachment to the letters. But the text of the letters seems so nice and sweet that users opens an attachment without even thinking that there could be a virus. The text of e-mail may contain words like ‘I love you’ and everything that is similar to that. So, if you get such a letter with an attachment from unknown person, do not open the attachement!
This worm spreads very fast, because when it gets to the system, it immediately sends its copies to all the addresses from the Outlook Express address book. It also harms the system, by copying itself in the system folder and writing its information to the registry. It may also harm some of your files, for example *.mp3 files.
This worm has plenty of variants, so be careful with it. The filenames may be different from listed here.
Updated Miscreants have wasted no time exploiting the shock death of Michael Jackson to run email harvesting and banking Trojan campaigns.…
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Spammers have wasted no time exploiting the shock death of Michael Jackson to run an email harvesting campaign.…
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Spammers swift to exploit Jackson death in email grab
VirusCleaner is a bogus anti-spyware program that uses false scan results and fake security alerts to convince you that your computer is infected. Usually, this fake program is installed through the use of Trojans. Those Trojans display fake security alerts from Windows taskbar or pop-ups stating that your computer is compromised. VirusCleaner may be also promoted on various untrusted websites and via fake online scanners or advertisements.
When installed, VirusCleaner will ostensibly scan your computer and display a list of counterfeit infections that can be removed only after you purchase this program. To make things worse, this parasite will constantly flood your computer with very annoying security alerts and privacy violation notifications. Here’s an example of a fake security alert produced by VirusCleaner:
“Resident Shield Alert
Accessed file is infected
Threat detected!
File name: C:WINDOWS504052.exe
Threat name: Virus found Win32/Heur
Detected onopen.”
Virus Cleaner will effect your computer performance, making it work slower than usual. This program may also hijack Internet Explorer and redirect you to malicious websites that promotes this rogue product or other malware.
In other words, VirusCleaner is a fraud. The main purpose of this fake spyware remover is to scare you into purchasing this useless program. Don’t waste your money. If you find that your computer is infected with VirusCleaner, please use the removal guide below to remove it manually for free.
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