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September 6, 2005
Links Roundup
- Apparently, referrer spam is "new"
- Multi-billion dollar international software monopoly turns to half a dozen guys on a houseboat for help stopping spam
Gibson: "We don't do a good job of responding to abuse." - Apparently, Yahoo! is a great place to host phishing sites
Maybe it's because their abuse desk is MIA? - UK Information Commissioners Office admits it has no power over spam
Surely they can send in agent 007 to take out a few people in southwest Florida? - Some interesting "spam as percentage of all email" numbers from Tiki
- The best way for individual users to stop spam and protect their ability to receive legitimate e-mails is to ensure that their own computers are protected against viruses and trojan horses, thereby forestalling those machines from being used as spam relays. Next, use an ISP that protects your IP addresses from being placed on block lists.
Amazing logic. - Insight from the mid-90s on whether unsubscribing from spam is sufficient
Apparently, "legitimate" email marketers aren't very competent. - Virus writers exploit Katrina disaster
- China Holds Anti-Spam International Summit
- Microsoft's SenderID might lose official backing
- Irish Spam abusers will net jail term
- Adware maker seeks to thwart rogue installs
As opposed to all those legitimateannoying thefts of resources? And Sunbelt Software is anti-spyware? Feh. - Trojan swaps porn sites for Koran text
Posted by schampeo at September 6, 2005 8:35 PM