Date: 12/03/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, spam

Lycos Europe as you probably know has created a screen-saver which allows a controlling lycos software to target the idle time of the machines which installed the screen-savers to flood the network of known spammers. Some people are getting concerned that it amounts to ddos attack. Frankly I don't care. Anything to get these spammers business down [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ddosing-the-spammers-who-cares/

Date: 03/12/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

A 'comprehensive' sweep of the net by 70 law enforcement organisations from 26 countries should help authorities combat phishers, spammers and scammers, says a leading consumer protection agency. It sounds too good to be true and effective. I am keeping my fingers crossed. The surprising part of the news is at the end: According to recent estimates, spam [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/massive-web-trawl-nets-spammers/

Date: 03/14/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

I receive daily several thousands of spam emails on debt consolidation, mortgage and on organ enhancements advice/pills for organs I do not possess. I have been offered millions by unknown Nigerians, offered services I do not care about, images which were bad enough to spoil my day! I manage to filter most of them daily using [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/naive-bayesian-is-a-failure-against-spam/

Date: 03/15/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: java, web, spam

I'm currently running Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop (had it for about...two years), and there's been this really annoying problem for the past few months, and I've completely given up as to a solution. The problem I'm having is that I can't seem to open any new windows. For example, if I'm on a website and I click on someone that's supposed to come up on a popup, it won't. But I get the regular, annoying, spam-like popups just fine. At first I thought it was because of Javascript, like my computer was eating it or something...but it doesn't work with people who insert the " target='blank' >" code either. I've looked through all of my Internet Options and computer options, and I can't seem to find my way out. Any solutions?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/25055.html

Date: 03/17/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

It was surprising to find no comment spam after installing WordPress 1.5, noting that I haven't enabled CAPTCHA with this upgrade. However I soon realized that I wasn't receiving any normal comments too on very commentable articles. I realized yesterday the culprit was this option in WordPress: Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/all-comments-get-nuked-by-blackhole-option-on-blocking-open-proxy-lists-in-wordpress-15-strayhorn/

Date: 03/18/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

Feel free to copy it to your Blog. It can be added in Options/Discussion/Comment Blacklist text area. It takes care of my comment spam. If you decide to add it to your site then remember to surely test it by commenting on your posts to see that the comments go through. This post will always be [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-blacklist-for-wordpress-15/

Date: 03/19/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

Overview A Plugin to bounce back referrer spam attempts; requires no upfront configuration, no mod-rewrite. It is like the strong silent bouncer at your favorite club. Tested only on WordPress 1.5. Should work with earlier versions. It does one job and does it well. Enough said. Background I was trying to block referrer spammer’s from my blog sites. I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/word-press-1-5-plugin-referer-bouncer/

Date: 03/22/05 (Security)    Keywords: technology, spam

Rather than just filtering content, Big Blue's spam-fighting technology verifies sender identity and strikes back.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/IBM+debuts+spam+assailant+tool/2100-1009_22-5629998.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/23/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

A year back I posted a case study on how to deal with a spammer about Richard Milford, a stupid spammer and scam artist. The case was quoted by Plaxo as I dealt with them to get him (Richard Milford the stupid spammer) removed from their system. Afterwards he tried few times to contact me. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spunky-spammer/

Date: 03/23/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

PubSub is a tool to push feed items to your desktop. You register at PubSub, identify topics of interest and the news will start coming to your desktop automated and in near real-time. This model shares the same weakness as email. Both push content to your desktop. Email now also pushes spam (around 80% of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rss-push-model-ex-pubsub-is-not-viable-in-long-run/

Date: 03/23/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: security, spam

According to a survey conducted by security firm Mirapoint and market research company the Radicati Group, nearly a third of e-mail users have clicked on links in spam messages. One in ten users have bought products advertised in spams.   I am speechless!

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spamming-is-a-successful-strategy/

Date: 03/28/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, html, spam

Does anyone know how to stop the spam bots from posting on guestbooks? I have a few sites up and I have to monitor all the php guestbooks for bot posts.

And some of the posts I can't even delete. I know HTML and basics but my friend made me the PHP guestbook so I don't know it 100%

Hopefully someone can help me! Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/183936.html

Date: 03/31/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: templates, software, html, security, virus, spam

I'm really dissatisified with the current state of e-mail and news software, so I've come here to ask for suggestions based on certain requirements.

I only have one general requirements between the two of them (e-mail and nntp software). They should be free (as in beer) or preferably open source. If I must I will pay.

E-mail
*Fast, fast, fast - if it's slow on my 2Ghz P4 then something is wrong.
*OE (Outlook Express) or The Bat! like interface. I don't want to do 2983492384239482 billion tweaks to make it right.
*Should be able to effeciently and "stable-y" (to recover from corruption/crashes and in terms of not redownloading the same messages.) large mail boxes with tens of thousands of messages.
*Effecient support for said mailbox via IMAP.
*Multiple account support
*Good support for contact lists
*Should include built in HTML viewer, not rely on something like MSIE's HTML display control. It should also be smart enough to only display basic stuff, with the option to disable displaying of "external" (non-embedded) images.
*Relatively easy to use plug-in support. Preferably something procmail like that executes external programs for each program or something even more effecient (like a dynamically loaded library that is persistent in memory). This will be used for external viruses and anti-spam crud. (Note: while built in anti-spam stuff is nice, I'd rather rely on the much better external anti-spam stuff and AFAIK there isn't any e-mail software that can mark messages as spam and auto-send them back to an external anti-spam program).
*Built in procmail like stuff is good too.
*Support for mail message templates (i.e. different ones for forwarding, replies, etc...)
*Should include advanced searching and filtering options like in The Bat!, except less crappy.
*Good S/MIME and OpenPGP support that is actually compliant with the standards and can decode messages in place (not just launch an external program to view them).
*Ability to sort messages by various factors.
*Good mail message import/export ability for backup. Compression is nice, but I can always do that manually.
*High configurability in general is good.

News
*Fast, fast, fast - if it's slow on my 2Ghz P4 then something is wrong.
*Should be able to handle large newsgroups, on the order of tens of thousands of messages well.
*A fast OE like interface with a preview pane that can show images.
*Same thing as above about HTML viewing.
*Good binary/encoding support is ok, but I'm not using it for porn so it's not a big deal.
*Ability to sort messages by many different factors

It should be obvious, but security is important in the implementation.

P.S. Spare me what you think the obvious answer is. I won't bash specific clients, but lets just say some are just plain stupid in design and remain popular despite crap for features or crap for a user interface/configuration methodology.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/648358.html

Date: 03/31/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: spam

Anybody use a good mailing list system (preferrably free or super cheap) that they would recommend? Some stupid person on my mailing list reported me as spam because she forgot she was on my list (dumbass) and the company I use didn't handle it so well. I blew my stack at them and before I go really crazy I'd like to move my mailing list and then proceed to go nuts on them.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/844262.html

Date: 04/01/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam, microsoft

Scott Richter, the man behind OptInRealBig.com and billions of junk mail messages, said lawsuits had forced the company into Chapter 11. OptInRealBig was fighting several legal battles, most notably against Microsoft, which is pushing for millions of dollars in damages. BBC NEWS Much of the spam in our mailbox comes from few big spammers like him. Once the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/self-declared-spam-king-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection/

Date: 01/01/70 (Webmaster View)    Keywords: css, spam

Matt Mullenweg's response to the WordPress - search engine spam scandal:

The articles hosted content thing was just a short-term experiment, an interesting idea (original and relevant Wikipedia-type content on the site) that was badly implemented. As an experiment it could have been conducted much better than it was. The content should have been more topical to WP issue, I should have kept up with the content that was going up, the links should have never had the overflow CSS, and I should have discussed it with more people. Each was a mistake and they combined badly - I'm very sorry.

I take full responsibilty for how it was implemented. It was wrong, and it wasn't thought through

Comments

Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/blogging/wordpress_matts_reply

Date: 04/04/05 (Security)    Keywords: spam

Civil charges filed against two Tampa men charged with running a spam operation carry up to $24 million in potential fines.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Florida+files+multimillion-dollar+spam+suits/2100-1009_22-5653662.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 04/08/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web, spam

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but anyway:

I'm sure some of you familiar with spam email. Does any of you know reliable spam reporting site that works?

Thank ya :)
xposted in webdev

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/849636.html

Date: 04/08/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: web, spam

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but anyway:

I'm sure some of you familiar with spam email. Does any of you know reliable spam reporting site that works?
I'm currently using spamcop.net

xposted in web_design

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/187977.html

Date: 04/08/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: virus, spam

US has again achieved the dubious distinction of being responsible for maximum amount of spam (35%) with South Korea (25%) at second place. What is more interesting is: According to Sophos more than 50% of all spam is sent from "zombie" PCs, computers that have been take over by hackers or virus writers. The good news is: Deborah Platt [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/us-computers-again-leader-in-worldwide-spamming-followed-by-s-korea/