“All I did was try to download a Solitaire game from the Internet” Anyone who’s ever helped someone clean up a spyware infestation knows exactly what I’m talking about. One “innocent” little game came complete with 8 toolbars, 4 startup executables, 3 advertising generators, multiple registry entries, random processes and, ironically enough, an anti-spam program that…
in 2004-2005, when I was looking for a job, I heard from a number of IT consulting companies, and unfortunately, most of them turned out to be companies I would never work for. Between the ones that lied to me about jobs, or lied about my qualifications to companies, to the one’s who called my house…
Don’t you just love opening up Outlook over the weekend and discovering that some used your domain as a “from” address whilst spamming and now you’re left to deal with all the bounce-backs? There’s really nothing like watching the Inbox count go all the way up to almost 300, and then watch as SpamBayes identifies…
I had turned off my webalizer stats on this site a long time ago because of the number of spam referrers I was getting, in hopes that they would go away if there were no actual on-line links that they could get a benefit from by spamming my referrer logs, and after that I pretty…
I’ve talked about Mailwasher’s anti-spam product before, and Matthew from the Firetrust team that developed it dropped me an email today to let me, and those of you who have been interested, know that the new free version 5 is now available from mailwasher.net Tags: Mailwasher
Matthew from Firetrust was kind enough to send me a free copy of the new, pro version of Mailwasher a while back. The program has gotten better, added some serious features, and still gives you all the fun of bouncing spam back to the sender. (Of course, the actual value of that is still open…