Date: 01/10/08 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, spam

I'm curious what people here see as the current best practice for email forms.

Lately it seems that the standard Form2Mail cgi (Matt's scripts) that I've had in place for years, has started generating a lot of empty messages, or messages from "nobody@isp.com"... i'm interpreting this to mean that they are getting more attempted attacks from spammers. Or they stop working periodically (!)

What is the current preferred method of sending secure email from a form, without the mailto address being visible to spambots? I've seen more php out there these days- But it's hard to decide at face value if any of the purported free php things out there are any good.

At one bulk host, i tried the wizard to set up a php-MySQL "php form generator" (phpformgen.sourceforge.net) but that proved really difficult to set up and i never did get it working.

Suggestions? I'm looking for free, or cheap license for a bunch of different sites.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1352817.html

Date: 01/18/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: spam

Oh, dear. Things are getting nasty, make sure your spam filters are set to superblock! From: The HATEgrenade Team: Has anybody ever pissed you off so bad that you wanted to add them to a SPAM list? ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=228

Date: 01/20/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: database, spam

SplogSpot is service that keeps track of spam blogs or Splogs. The splogspot spam database can be queried by using the SplogSpot API. A nice idea. Is the service appears to be dead since March 2007? The recently updated splog dump from SplogSpot has the latest entry from 20th March 2007: Casino Club Las Vegas - 07:45 [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/

Date: 01/28/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, spam

A few items of note: There's a Western Union spam with Trojan payload; Beware Super Bowl hijinx this week; And if you really want to be a malicious hacker move to Japan. Among the notable: Western Union spam with Trojan Sunbelt Software reports...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=834

Date: 02/06/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: database, virus, spam

The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse exploits. I was recently testing this list againt spam email. Here are few observations from [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/overview-of-exploits-block-list-xbl-spamhausorg-in-comment-spam-protection/

Date: 02/06/08 (Security)    Keywords: security, spam

For the third month running, compromised computers in Europe have pushed out more spam than those in the U.S. European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited e-mail than those in the U.S. for the third month in a row, according to security vendor Symantec. Symantec...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6229352.html

Date: 02/05/08 (Security)    Keywords: spam

Symantec released its February state of spam report and Europe has become the center of the spam universe. In its report, Symantec said: The percentage of spam messages that claimed to originate from Europe is now significantly greater than the percentage of spam messages originating from...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=853

Date: 02/08/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam, yahoo

With the popularity of blog spamming, can Nigerian scammers (and spammers) be left far behind? Here is an interesting attempt to scam, posted as a comment on blog against this article: Name: frank taylor | Email: frank****@yahoo.com | URL: http://KindAttention | IP: 41.210.17.190 | Feb 8, 9:06 AM | Type: normal [[A (sub)human being [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/419-nigerian-scam-hits-the-blogs/

Date: 02/19/08 (Security)    Keywords: technology, security, virus, spyware, spam

D-Link generated a lot of buzz when it unveiled the SecureSpot Internet Security Device at CES in 2007. The unit sits between your broadband modem and router, acting as a hardware shield against spam, viruses, and spyware. Now D-Link has integrated an updated version of the SecureSpot technology into its...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/soho-networking/?p=145

Date: 02/26/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, spam

March 3rd is our D Day. We will launch a new version of our corporate website. We will also launch Comment Guard Pro, a WordPress plugin to eliminate comment spam from blogs. We will also formally launch our new forum and customer support site. This is a big big event for us. All our product [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-d-day/

Date: 03/03/08 (Security)    Keywords: spam

What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws constitutional? The Virginia Supreme Court took that matter up in the case of Jeremy Jaynes, a particularly obnoxious...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3689

Date: 03/03/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

I am very happy to announce the much-awaited release of Comment Guard Pro for WordPress blogs. Comment Guard Pro is designed to unobtrusively protect your blog against all types of comment spams - trackback spam, pingback spam, robotic spam using comment form, human submitted spam (where the spammers actually goes to your site to spam [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released/

Date: 03/03/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, spam

I have received dozens of spams from ContactThem Network affiliates who follow this simple template: Hi, We’ve seen your website at http://blog.taragana.com/ [Full URL here] and we love it! We see that your traffic rank is [######] and your link popularity is [##]. Also, you have been online since [#/#/####]. With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/contactthem-network-perfects-distributed-spamming/

Date: 03/12/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, spam, shopping

I was just spammed (unsolicited commercial email) by Storrz, first (I think) online shopping mall in India (remember WebVan?). They state that orders received before 12 PM will be delivered by 2 PM the next day, anywhere in India. Storrz is based in Bangalore so within Bangalore, all orders received before 12 PM are [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/finally-online-groceries-in-india/

Date: 03/21/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

I received a non-typical email spam, a well written (spams are usually filled with bad spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, especially those from Dakar, Senegal for example) email from Maria Wyatt (most likely forged) claiming to be Nadezhda from Saint-Petersburg in Russia. The full email without the headers: Hello! How are you? I hope that all good [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dating-spam-with-love-from-russia/

Date: 03/23/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, spam

Users, including forum admins, sometimes gets message while editing a post, sometimes for quick edits and sometimes for longer edits - “The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.” This is not really an error but one of the two protection mechanisms in place in phpBB to protect your forum from spams. Here is how [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-fix-phpbb-error-the-submitted-form-was-invalid-try-submitting-again/

Date: 03/23/08 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, spam

I have a script that regularly sends out lots of e-mails. Like, up to 500 at once. And since I don't want to use BCC or have everyone's address in the To: field, I've been calling up the e-mail list and looping through it, using one mail() command at a time. This has proven to be very slow. Is there a more correct way to do this? I checked out some other code I've messed with, like phpbb, and they just use Bcc and "undisclosed recipients" in the To: field. I don't want to do that, it'll make the e-mails more likely to get sent to people's spam folder.

Any other recommendations on the best way to deal with this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/616936.html

Date: 02/24/09 (Computer Help)    Keywords: web, linux, spam

OK I'm really looking for two things here.

1. I have multiple email accounts that I would like to consolidate into one portable space. I don't know if there is a webmail program that I could install on my webspace or something that could use pop email (the one that my webhost uses sucks and i hate it). I have a lot of mailing lists and all kinds of crap saved into thunderbird, but whenever I want to send an email I have to use this computer and that's becoming more and more of a pain in the ass. I've tried zenbe and I don't like it. I don't want to use gmail's feature to import pop accounts because i'm not too crazy about gmail (or any other free webmail for that matter) having access to all these emails that i'm using for my other thing. I don't want to use like portable thunderbird because it's not cross-platform (i use linux, windows and mac osx all on a regular basis) and I would like it to be web-based so I don't have to fuck with my flash drive every time I want to check my email. Something like this has to exist, and I'm sure it's free,  I just don't know where to look anymore.

2. I would like to know where I can send text messages from the internet. I don't know if just emailing a phone number works all the time. I send text messages to multiple people on a pretty regular basis (not spam but reminders about meetings and stuff) and I'm eating up all my text messages on my non-unlimited plan. This also must exist too, I just don't know where to find it.

Thanks for any help you can give me!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/953129.html

Date: 03/09/09 (Security)    Keywords: technology, security, spam

Last week Twitter user Fausto Cepeda asked Ryan if we could go beyond discussing straight security news and talk about product and technology trends on the blog. It was perfect timing. Cloudmark (disclosure: yes, this is my employer) has announced that they have been providing anti-spam...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2834

Date: 02/25/09 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, html, spam

Hey, all... I know that HTML emails are kind of spammy, but you do what the boss wants, right?

I've made sure all my images are full direct paths to files up on a server, all of my CSS is done in-line, and when I test the email by sending it to my co-workers everything looks dandy, but when I send a test out to Gmail or Hotmail all of my background images are stripped out. Is there something wrong with my code?

The code for my main div with the background image is: