Date: 08/03/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, web, spyware, spam

Hi. A few weeks ago I was using Internet Explorer as my web browser and I noticed these popups kept showing up:

http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k193/AutumnRoseAngel/Popups/

So I removed IE and switched to Firefox, but I soon noticed that Firefox kept messing up on some of my pages, but no more popups.

So I'm reconsidering Firefox and moving to Netscape. I'll just try Netscape on here, I've used it at school and it works fine there.

What's the best way to remove spyware/spamware? What programs should I use?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/666466.html

Date: 08/08/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, css, spam

http://www.zerospamnow.com/index.redesignv2.php
1st problem is getting background images to stretch correctly with MSIE

2nd problem is overflow: auto with MSIE.  Is there a work around for this?


I used the CSS trick with absolute and z-index to make the background image 100%x100%

    

         
     

Date: 08/13/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

LinkieWinkie is a nifty little site which throws back at you reciprocal link love. So when I link to LinkieWinkie, I can expect it to link back to me. Interesting social experiment. I expect it to be soon flooded by spammers.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/understanding-linkiewinkie/

Date: 08/16/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: spam

Company, owed $12 million by a spammer, gets permission to dig for gold and platinum bars in his parents' garden.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6106230.html

Date: 08/18/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: spam

I turned on my computer this morning, got Thunderbird started on checking my mail, & went to get some coffee. When I returned, my computer was in mid-reboot..come to find out that Windows Update had been busy updating. Grr.

I open Thunderbird, & it just hangs there.."program not responding"..sheesh. Close it, open it back up (and it appears to open okay), set it to check mail, & am a bit concerned when my inbox appears empty..hmm okay, maybe it's taking a minute to load up. Nope..one single e-mail (spam, no less) loads up & that's it..all of the previously existing contents of my inbox had vanished.

Is there any way I can recover these (some very important) e-mails or am I screwed? Oh, I'm running Windows XP Home, for the record.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/373260.html

Date: 08/31/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: spam

I've been asked to set up a photo submission form that will collect obituary photos with obituary notices and be emailed to one of my co-workers. I've never done this, and while I think I know the mechanics, I would like to ask here exactly what is involved in creating a photo submission form and what I should know. I already know very well how to set up a regular message submission form with validation and protection against hacking/spamming. I just feel that a photo submission form is somewhat different. Am i wrong?

Also, examples that I can modify for our use would be nice.

Thank you for your help!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/351246.html

Date: 09/06/06 (Security)    Keywords: spam

Court denies convicted spammer's appeal, rejects argument that the state law is unconstitutional.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6112967.html

Date: 09/08/06 (Security)    Keywords: web, spam

Malware that steals access codes sits on Samsung server and is spread by malicious spam and IM, Websense says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6113611.html

Date: 09/08/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: css, html, web, spam

     Instead of trying to roll my own solution, anyone know of a reliable IMAP/POP mail reader to be used in the back end of a website.  What I am doing is dedicating a email account on the server to receiving incoming articles.  On the command of the web Admin or a crontab script, the email's would be parsed/validated, with emails not from another account on the website being ignored, and then checking for something like "@PASSWORD='password'" on the first line.  If thats passes, any embedded, attached img's would be parsed into jpg/png, the email body would be copied into a .htm file, and then authorized by the web admin.

The reason for doing this is that a lot of the content writers are clueless about HTML/CSS so I want to make it really easy for them to be able to publish articles onto the website using something simple like a email client as a WYSIWYG editor.   I am going to use a fairly long email account name to try and avoid random spam and put in filter to reject any email that doesn't originate from the same server.  Otherwise I am putting the KCEditor in the admin section as a another way of writing up articles.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/493721.html

Date: 09/11/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, spam

I am talking about setting up a full featured website for your small business or personal use with your own domain and receiving your emails@your-domain.com address. You can setup emails for yourself and your employees. It comes with high quality spam protection. You have unlimited bandwidth on your website and potentially unlimited disk space. You [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-setup-your-small-business-website-email-for-599-per-year/

Date: 09/13/06 (Security)    Keywords: spam

Company wins $84,177 over term violation; U.K. individuals, though, are virtually helpless against spammers, lawyer says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6115328.html

Date: 09/14/06 (Security)    Keywords: spam

In two cases, spammers sent sexually explicit e-mail messages using "zombie" computers, the agency says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6115948.html

Date: 09/15/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: spam

In a Spanish portal we have, we are getting a lot of email and comments spam written in Chinese that comes out as glibberish. I've been trying to find a way to block it by blocking messages not written in latin charsets but I can't find exactly how. Do you have any idea, please? The problem is getting out of hand.

Many thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/494864.html

Date: 09/15/06 (Security)    Keywords: spam

Manager of an antispam blacklist was hit with a multimillion dollar judgment, but the order may not be enforceable.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6116009.html

Date: 10/03/06 (Security)    Keywords: spam

Two plead guilty to offenses under the Can-Spam Act after ISP finds they had sent out thousands of junk messages.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6122249.html

Date: 10/15/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: asp, spam

Hey everyone,

Have been finding that I am getting a lot of spam via FormMail on sites lately. I've been using FormMail as opposed to JMail (Yes, ASP)

I want to use CAPTCHA with the contact form so I can get rid of these spambots, but have not used one of these scripts before.

Form -> FormMail.asp -> Thanks.asp

Form is the form (duh)
FormMail.asp processes the form
Thanks.asp acknowledges the form entry

SpamBot should be unable to get the form processed if they do not enter the CAPTCHA code on the form.

Any insight as to where to put things where is appreciated. I've come across a few free CAPTCHA scripts for ASP but they have examples of "This is a valid entry" and "This is not a valid entry", which does nothing for me.

I think the logic for what I am trying to do is:

If CAPTCHA="right code"
Then Process Form
Else Don't process form

If anyone can help with this, it would be appreciated. I am sure there's others out there with the same problem.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1178389.html

Date: 11/19/06 (Algorithms)    Keywords: spam

So, I've turned off anonymous comments, turned on IP logging, deleted that last message and marked it as spam and banned them.

It's odd, because nothing is more likely to generate sympathy for the targets than this type of crap.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/algorithms/86545.html

Date: 11/27/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

In Simple Thoughts blog and many other blogs worldwide there is a feature to email an article you liked (or hated) to your friends. Recently I noticed that this feature is being abused to send SPAM. How does it work? When you email any article to anyone, you are offered a choice to write your own [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spamming-by-email-this-article-feature/

Date: 11/27/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, spam

These armies of zombie PCs are used by cybercriminals for sending spam. Part of a series on hot security topics.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6138435.html

Date: 11/27/06 (Security)    Keywords: spam

Experts blame rise in spam on computer programs that hijack millions of home computers.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6138454.html