Kill Voice Spam Before It Grows
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Spammers have come close to ruining e-mail--and threaten to do the same to Internet telephony. The time to stop them is now.
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Lycos Europe has released a special screensaver for Windows and the Mac OS platforms that will attack spam web pages. The screensaver âMake Love No Spamâ will overload a variety of spam servers by flooding
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After having some issues with spam comments over on his blog, Ryan Malesevich decided to do something about it. So, being the WordPress fan that he is, he implemented a new plugin to help things a bit - removing the ability to comment on a post older than 21 days.   I'm using a plugin called Auto-Close Comments. Whenever you write a post, edit a post, or anything similar to that, it will go through the database and close any comments for posts older than three weeks. I'm going to try it out for a while to see how my spam comments are altered.   You need to install it manually since there's no official packaged plugin for it, but it's a pretty simple matter of cut & paste to get it working. Then, you just define the number of days that you want the cutoff to be and you're all set.
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Ryan points out a handy tool to help keep even more spammers from making their way to your blogs and posting comments - Bad Behavior.    I love Akismet the spam filter for comments that is built into Wordpress. It's blocked 812 spam comments in a little under 2 months for me. I was content with it, but I grew tiresome that it would even get to my site. Akismet is great for blocking spams that are already to your blog, but there has to be something out there that would block the spammers from coming to your site in the first place.   Luckily there is something like that, it's called Bad Behavior.    Luckily, it's also made for Wordpress, so you can download and install directly with no fuss. He comments that he's already seeing results with even more caught than Akismet was before.
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Today&#39;s new word, for all you dictionary freaks, is &quot;spim&quot;. Spam + IM (Instant Messaging) = Spim. IM Spam. And for many IM companies it is the bane of their existence requiring increasingly aggressive filtering and block list capabilities.
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Public chatter on mobile phones is annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem?
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Time to start thinking about how Google can block the next worm that attempts to use the search engine to spread.
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From product keys to click behavior, application developers need to stop annoying their users.
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Users should be wary of pressing the 'click here to remove' link on spam messages because it serves to confirm to spammers that junk mail messages are being read.
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If you can&#39;t stop &#39;em, sue &#39;em. That&#39;s what Microsoft has announced they are doing to seven spammers who are accused of sending unrequested e-mails with visible pornography to hundreds of thousands of internet users.
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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I spend 10 to 15 minutes a day adding addresses to my âblock sendersâ list. Is there any way I can block all of these at once and report them to some entity?
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It&#39;s called &quot;spim,&quot; and it&#39;s the instant-messaging equivalent of spam--a shotgun blast of unwanted advertisements via instant-messaging tools or chat rooms.
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At the risk of breaching Internet civility, a European Web portal is offering its visitors a weapon against spam: a screensaver program that tries to choke spam servers by flooding them with junk traffic.
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Striking out against spammers (sounds good already!) Lycos have developed a screensaver that should help to put the nasty blighters out of business.
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Latest spam blast invites recipients to see themselves in a video, but 'YouTube' link leads to malware.
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Early users of consolidation service complain Yoomba spams their contact lists with invitations to join up.