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What could happen if you’d replied to every single spam message?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Have you ever wondered what could happen if you’d replied to every “Buy V1agra” message, clicked on every link offering weight loss pills or video of Cristina Aguilera naked? Thanks to experiment organized by McAfee, we know what happens.
McAfee recruited 50 volunteers in 10 countries for a job every security expert tells you to avoid […]

Why can’t spam say goodbye?

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Everyone who has an email box, mobile phone, account on a social network, a blog, etc. has an opinion about spam as well. That’s because spam evolves and targets new territories everyday, why can’t we fight the spam efficiently?
Old-fashioned spam used for marketing purposes seems to be harmless in comparison with spam that infects computers […]

What have changed in 30 years of spam?

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Spam celebrates anniversary this year: 30 years have gone since the day a clever manager sent 400 email messages to potential customers inviting them to a presentation. Luckily, the name of the manager is being kept in silence; otherwise many would go on a headhunt to punish the one that gave a start to spam […]

What is Mail bomber

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

Mail bomber is the software that floods user’s e-mail with big number of mails. Mails can contain different information: from the simple newsletter to the offer to enlarge your body parts.
Mail bombers sometimes are used as mass mailing software and in that case are legal programs used for business improvement. Individual users also are able […]

What is spam?

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Spam is an e-mail message that is send to many people and floods Internet with copies. People don’t with to receive it, but it is sent without permission. Usually spam methods are used for advertising and commercial purposes. It is cheap way to advertise services and products because it costs very little or doesn’t cost […]

How to protect from Spam?

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

None of us has avoided receiving needless advertisements by e-mail. Sometimes such things are really annoying, especially when you get not one or two such advertisements, but about hundred. There is a special term for such obsessive net-advertisements – “spam�?. Just after several years spam grew into a universal epidemic.
So what is bad about that […]





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