It pays to get a second opinion on Free Online Virus Scanners

Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008 12:50pm admin

Once in a while – say every 6 months – why not get a second opinion on if your computer is infected with something that your existing anti-virus product may have missed? It is also handy to have a list like this just in case you do notice something wrong with your computer (slowdown or unexpected pop-ups or error messages) and your existing up to date AV solution doesn’t set off the warning sirens.

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8 Signs That Job You Found Online Is A Scam

Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008 12:22pm admin

With both the holiday and the economic down turn just around the corner it is tempting to ‘work from home’ and ‘make big cash’ but most of these offers send via e-mail are for money mules working for organized crime.

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DSBL is no longer

Continue Reading Add comment December 2nd, 2008 11:39am admin

The DSBL list which was used by some anti-spam systems to block open relay and proxy servers that could be used by spammers to forward spam has been taken off-line.

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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) re-gaining in the Billion-dollar underground economy

Continue Reading Add comment December 1st, 2008 04:38pm admin

Over at IT Business they are reporting that Internet Relay Chat or IRC is again a popular place for Cyber Criminals to hang out and market their ill-gotten gains. With a market estimated at 7 Billion dollars you can be sure that they aren’t going away anytime soon.

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Reduce Your Spam with a Disposable E-mail Address

Continue Reading Add comment November 28th, 2008 07:41pm Shaun

Some sites that you go to want you to register and provide a valid e-mail address to send you your password or a signup verification link.

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McColo Hands Off Botnets to the Russians

Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008 04:32pm admin

Brief respite from spam could be over as McColo hands off Command and Control of Botnets to a Russian network.

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Dilbert – Our Spam Filter Has Become Self Aware?

Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008 11:48am admin

Has it come to this? Do we need an anti-spam engine so powerful that it becomes self aware?

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Study shows how spammers cash in

Continue Reading Add comment November 18th, 2008 01:12pm admin

Here’s an interesting article on the BBC News website that shows that spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send.

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McColo – Why Would They Host Spammers?

Continue Reading Add comment November 14th, 2008 05:48pm admin

The recent big news is about the Washington Post being involved in the shutting down of a Co-Location hosting provider (McColo Corp.- AS26780) that has as customers some of the biggest spammers on the Internet – some reports are as high as 2/3rds or even 75% of all spam worldwide was associated with them.

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Operation Pangea – Pharmacies taken offline in 9 countries

Continue Reading Add comment November 14th, 2008 01:27pm admin

Drug Administration and 6 other organizations under the direction of World Health Organizations’ International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce and the Permanent Forum on International Pharmaceutical Crime were successful in raid on Pharmacies operated out of Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.

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