I have been blocking more and more Twit spam followers lately on my Twitter account. Some of the accounts have been suspended by Twitter, which is great, but it is still a a nuisance. Just one more by-product of Web 2.0 I guess. But the real quandary is what to call Twitter Spam. SPIT is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Link This is the trojan I mentioned in my last post. Vet
Go check out this article at Dark Reading. Looks like this group is creating a botnet with a trojan that has a cracked version of Kaspersky AV to clean machines (except for itself, of course) to make sure it gets all the bandwidth it can to send out spam. It is called the SpamThru trojan. This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thanks to Mike at MCWResearch for letting me know that Akismet was down today. I got a good amount of obvious spam, but they caught it pretty quick and everything seems OK now. I didn’t notice it because it is Sunday, and I just happened to check my email. I can’t say anything bad about those […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s my “poor self esteem” question for the week. Should I be concerned that I have not been getting much comment spam the last two weeks? I am fairly sure my readership has gone up in the last month or so, but the amount of spam has gone down. I use Akismet, and it does […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I saw this article about the rise of image spam, and I started thinking about the image spam I have been receiving. A very high percentage of it (for me) has been stock spam, just like in this article. And the author of the article mentioned that there was a rise in the value of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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