Date: 06/22/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: linux, spam

I tried to install Mandriva 10.2/Mandrake 10.1 (tested them both) on my desktop computer. Specs: 2x SATA 160gb and raid0 VIA raid controller. It would install just fine, but when I tried to boot I just get a spam of L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 ....anyidea what is wrong? I installed it like 3 times..same thing. If I use just one sata drive it boots, but it's very buggy, slow, programs wont open etc. I would really want to use linux. But I always have to install XP :(. Is it so that Linux doesn't work on raid0? Would sound a little weird to me.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/711059.html

Date: 06/23/05 (Security)    Keywords: technology, spam, microsoft

MSN and Hotmail will flag e-mail without a Sender ID tag, a move critics see as Microsoft forcing its antispam technology onto the world.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+pushes+spam-filtering+technology/2100-1009_22-5758365.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 06/29/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: spam

Internet standards group approves "experimental" proposals to curb spam using domain authorization and e-mail authentication.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Antispam+proposals+advance/2100-9588_22-5768498.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/05/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

All the comment spam plugins of the world do not protect you against spams which are written by humans. No amount of comment spam prevention plugins or .htaccess tricks protect you against them. So how do you fight when humans write the spam themselves instead of bots? In this article I first discuss the more [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-fight-against-sub-human-written-comment-spam/

Date: 07/07/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: spam

 Russell Shaw has an interesting tip for PR types, set up a Wikipedia entry and keep it updated. He points to the Skype article on Wikipedia -- which is certainly a detailed article on Skype, and looks like it is fairly neutral, as opposed to Wikipedia Spam. I have to [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=369&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/08/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, spam, yahoo

I received a strange comment (spam) from an user nicknamed John complimenting this blog. He provided his web address as www.yahoo.com and gave his email as john@yahoo.com. It was suspicious because Yahoo is not known to engage in such behavior. No decent company in their right mind would. The IP address recorded was 202.149.50.6. Not surprisingly [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/yahoo-spamming-this-blog/

Date: 07/14/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: blogging, rss, software, spam

What features would you like in your dream blogging software? Let me know your thoughts. Here's what comes to my mind: Commenting with: WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion) Strong Spam Protection through: Blacklist Trackback Moderation Keyword (regex) moderation IP Banning Referrer Bouncer Rule based spam checking Full support for RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3, Pingback protocols Offline Blogging support through MT and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-would-be-the-features-of-an-ideal-blog-software/

Date: 07/15/05 (Security)    Keywords: spam

Service aims to tell subscribers if their network is home to compromised PCs being used to send spam.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Sophos+promises+to+sniff+out+zombie+systems/2100-1009_22-5790292.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/27/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

Russia’s most notorious spammer, Vardan Kushnir, 35, was found dead in his apartment in downtown Moscow on Monday, July 25. Someone repeatedly smashed his head with a heavy object and then ransacked his entire apartment according to authorities. Vardan Kushnir was arguably the most hated person among 17.6 million Internet users in Russia, whom he continuously [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/solving-spam-problem-the-russian-way/

Date: 07/27/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

My Referrer Bouncer plugin for WordPress Publishing Platform has been rather popular plugin with WordPress bloggers. It simply bounces referrer spammers back to their own domain, effectively forcing them to spam their own servers. It is a simple plugin, does one thing and does it well. Sometimes people want to find out if the plugin is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-ensure-your-site-is-protected-by-referrer-bouncer-plugin/

Date: 08/02/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

Christopher Abad, a research scientist with Cloudmark, a San Francisco-based spam filtering service provider spend time lurking (possibly using bots) in phishing communities and gained valuable understanding on their economies and social structure. To summarize the economy is still based on demand-and-supply (no surprise here) - "Phishing economies are self-organized merchants and consumers governed only by [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spending-time-with-phishers-phishing-society-economics-etc/

Date: 08/09/05 (Security)    Keywords: technology, spam, microsoft

Lack of popularity of Microsoft's antispam technology could make it harder to reverse consumers' eroding faith in e-mail.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Sender+ID%27s+fading+message/2100-1009_22-5824234.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/10/05 (Security)    Keywords: spam

Gold bars, cash and a fully loaded Hummer H2 are among the prizes AOL is offering as it celebrates a settlement with a spammer.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/This+spammer%27s+stash+could+be+yours/2100-1009_22-5826897.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/26/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

I enjoyed this short informative movie about preventing hacking and protecting your computer from Sunrise, a broadband provider from Switzerland. It talks about firewalls, IP address blocking, spamming, trojans etc. in a easy to understand format. It can be a refreshing reminder for experienced and a good starting point for new users. Check it out.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/short-movie-about-computer-hacking/

Date: 08/28/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

Four Spammers down, hundreds to go. James R. Schaffer, Jeffrey A. Kilbride, and Jennifer R. Clason were each charged on Thursday with two counts of fraud and one count of criminal conspiracy under the U.S. law known as CAN-SPAM, short for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act. CAN-SPAM law, in effect since January 2004, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hunting-spammers-the-legal-way/

Date: 08/30/05 (Security)    Keywords: web, spam

New Web site aims to help determine whether a specific computer has been sending legitimate e-mail or spam.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Web+site+gives+e-mail+senders+a+reputation/2100-1009_22-5844408.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/31/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: software, web, spam

I recently bought a domain and one week afterwards I opened my inbox to discover that the domain was being used as return addresses (they're using random non-existent usernames@my domain) for spam selling discounted (and probably pirated) software. I've informed my webhost about this and they've provided me with some information on how to report this ("Determine the appropriate abuse department(s) responsible for the message source and any URL's or email addresses used as a contact point by the spammer." "send FORGERY complaints to the abuse addresses. Many abuse departments will consider forgery a more serious TOS violation than sending UCE.") but despite having thousands of e-mails with full header information I can't find an originating IP address as most addresses in the "received from" seem to be local ISP addresses from across the world.

I have had better luck with WHOIS and nslookup, in that I know where the site is hosted (a legitimate host in Jordan) and have the registration details (a suspiciously long PO box in Beirut) but without a way of proving that the person with the discounted software websites is also responsbile for the spam and spoofing I don't really have a leg to stand on here. :(

Anyone been in my situation before or have any advice?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/240638.html

Date: 09/20/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: asp, web, spam, yahoo

I work for a great dot-com and everyone here is an expert in some aspect of the Web. As it happens the core techie team is much smaller than the other specialities. As a result it tends to be myself or my team who find new sites or recommend trustworthy technical resources and I'd like to widen that field a bit.

Yahoo has a system called My Web 2.0 (beta) which I'd love to merge with webdesign (this isn't cross-posted). I'm always torn when someone posts a link to a handy new site because when I'm grumpy it looks like spam but when I'm in a better mood the links are almost always useful. I want to get more webdesign recommendations but I don't want to encourage people to post links here more often! I think My Web 2.0 is the solution (er, no, I don't work for Yahoo!).

In short, I'd like to swap My Web 2.0 community invites with people on this group and with my work-based Yahoo alias. I'm Andrew and if you'd like my to invite you to the community you'll need to leave your email as a comment. I suggest either screening the comment so spam-bots can't find it or writing like 'andrew at angrysockpuppet dot com'. I wouldn't mind if people wanted to put their own sites into the system too but perhaps we could tag them "homepages" or "mysite", etc, or even "lj webdesign" as appropriate.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/982932.html

Date: 09/21/05 (Security)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, spam

New variants of the veteran pest have been sent out in two waves of spam, an antivirus firm says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Bagle+attack+comes+in+two+waves/2100-1009_22-5875863.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/02/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: spam

Earlier today someone spammed a community I'm in, so I just blocked all pictures that were hosted by tinypic.com. They took care of everything so now I was wondering how do I un-block pictures hosted by tinypic.com?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/325305.html