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As the year draws to an end, we thought it high time to do another of our Top 10 favorite spam subject lines.  The choice (unfortunately) is always aplenty but we think you’ll enjoy these unless you can do better of course!   In the vague category 10.  ‘This will help you! Soon holidays!’ WhatRead more

Reported last week in PC Pro, leading security firms AVG and Symantec have been accused of ripping off their customers by cutting short their AV subscriptions once they had upgraded to different versions of the software. How? Believe it or not, pop-ups and email were the mechanisms used to dupe customers into taking discounts onRead more

Currently, there are several different approaches to fighting spam, including: Technological: anti-spam software (e.g., Vircom, GFI, Symantec, etc.) Associative: associations of private interests such as ISPs and large corporations; the most recent example being ASTA (Anti-Spam Technical Alliance), formed by AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, British Telecom, Comcast and Earthlink Legislative: many countries are now issuing theirRead more

A year ago, in november 2009, GFI Software acquired spam blocklist provider SORBS promising improvements to the responsiveness and data quality problems: GFI is now actively developing plans for the future of SORBS, including SORBS 2.0 and methods to improve SORBS data and responsiveness. Having a reputation service within GFI will allow us to provideRead more

This is a new spam that has just started showing up in my inbox.  A few others seem to have received it.  It seems like a non-threatening phishing attempt redirecting clickers to mysearchmusic.com.  The destination site seems unharmful at first glance, and acts as a MP3 Search Engine, with Google AdSense. Here is the content ofRead more