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McAfee monthly spam report – educating people about spam

mcafee McAfee monthly spam report educating people about spam

Starting this month, McAfee has released the first issue of its monthly spam report that focus on spam and other things related to it.

The first release highlighting among other the cracking of major spammers leads by hosting companies and domain registrar.

And the increasing number of unemployment has increased the number of spam as well, which targeting this unfortunate folks.

Hopefully such report can help educating the people to avoid falling into this trap. Although it might be possible to eliminate spam 100%, but with small effort like this, we can restrain spam from spread further.

Read the first issue.

Admin 13 January 2009 spam , , , 1 Comment

You’re too vulnerable to attack from harmful email via Facebook

Despite Facebook’s victory against spam, on which Facebook won lawsuit against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital, which slapped with massive 800 millions charge, this doesn’t seem to send a tough ‘signal’ to them.

This nut is tough to be cracked right?

It was a ‘historic day’ yesterday, when I’m among the luckiest ones who received spam from them. It’s not me alone actually, but it seems that it spreads among the circle of friends in Facebook.

At a glance, this email looks legit. Yes it does, since this email was sent from legit Facebook email adress, and it was sent by your ‘friend’.

But the truth is, this is not something that they intend to do. The account is being manipulated by ‘unauthorized’ party to fool you and hence trick you to click on the harmful links. No clue how it was done, but it could be due to the carelessness of the users, when accepting/using certain applications that require you to agree on T&C (without reading any further) and then to notify all your friends. This is just my wild guess though.

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But lucky me, Firefox prevents this page from being opened. I’m then certain on what is inside(something bad) but what will happen if I’m using Internet Explorer or Chrome, would it effectively kill this threat like Firefox??

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It is quite troublesome to identify which one is legit or otherwise. You’re vulnerable to any attacks regardless how cautious you are.

In this case, keep yourself reminded not to open any Facebook requests sent via email. And, control which email you want to receive from the setting page.

Admin 26 November 2008 spam , , , , 2 Comments

Identifying spams no longer a big deal

stopforumspam Identifying spams no longer a big deal

I came across stopforumspam from WP-NoSpamUser. No, I’m not using another anti-spam wordpress plugin, since I still have faith on Akismet and Typed Antispam in protecting this blog from spams.

Stopforumspam is like a directory or maybe a yellow page, which ‘lucky’ spammer listing is based on the IP, email, nickname and where it is originated.

I’m using it quite differently though. Recently i got quite a number of emails from my website’s contact form. Some looks legitimate and real. In order not to be fooled again, I’ll compare sender’s information with the one available on stopforumspam. At least I’m not replying to someone that is not in existence.

Admin 10 November 2008 spam , , , 3 Comments

Don’t be fooled by malware exploiting Barack Obama

Feeling excited to watch Barack Obama’s historic win video received on email from unknown sender?? You better not!!

Sophos had just recently announced about such malware, that trying to fool you to install fake Adobe Flash update when you click the link on that spam email. According to Sophos again, the infected system could possibly risking some information being compromised. Quite severe the impact though.., so better watch out

Watch the video below to get more detail, or head your browser to Sophos

On local scene, do you think there will be fake chedet or anwar ibrahim exploited malware??

Admin 8 November 2008 spam , , , 2 Comments

Silence is golden for spams?

Akismet has caught 60,128 spam for you since you first installed it.

That is the (lucky) number of spams I have received so far. Within 16 months in existence, that’s translated to over 3,758 per months. Pretty huge for a blog like this.

Why on earth am I suddenly talking about spams? No la, it’s just that I’m doing some housekeeping, cleaning up the mess over here and there. Upgrading here and there. Plus minus putting a little touch up on the theme (I’m still feeling slightly lazy writing).

I don’t have the number, but based on the number of comments moderated, I feel that spammer has ‘dropped by’ more than usual. Like unmanned house, which tends to get exposed to burglary higher than manned house, the same fate goes to blogs, I guess.

It’s not really bothering me, but I’m glad that they are still willing to drop by even when I’m not around.. Lol. At least I got someone taking care of blogjer….

Besides, I found lots of comments like below pending approval (I moderate first time commentators). It is not marked as spams (indeed, since they’re not viewed as spams by Akismet), but it is valid comment in the form of spam.

hey nice post.

I will check it out.

interesting site it really learns me a lot…

Are you going to approve it? Well, to me, it depends.. if the post is about tutorial, foods, games, it definitely makes sense, but if the post is about disaster or announcement, the comments will be ‘buried’ right away. Imagine ‘I’ll try it out’ comment for ‘This is not Bill Gates’s daughter‘ post, funny rite. Try what???

For little blogs like this, i don’t think readers will care too much if their comment is deleted accidently, but be considerate..

Admin 16 October 2008 blogging , , , 1 Comment
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