It’s like Godzilla versus King Kong, or Kramer versus Kramer, or something. CNet news is reporting that adware and spyware (and bears, oh my!) has started targeting competitor wares by detecting and removing them from computers infected by both. In fact, in a lawsuit filed last month, Avenue Media is…

The State of California is resorting to good old-fashioned U.S. mail to notify 1.4 million California residents that their personal information may have been compromised as a result of a hacking incident. The warning was made necessary by a hack-attack on the computer systems at U.C. Berkely, through which the…

You know all that spam you’ve been getting, promising you a university diploma? Well, the only degree that brothers Craig and Alton Poe are likely to be encountering in the foreseeable future is the third degree. The siblings, along with Trinity Southern University and Innovative Cellular and Wireless, have been…

IBM has announced that it is making it FairUCE anti-spam product available for free. “FairUCE” stands for “Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial Email”. FairUCE is an SMTP proxy for PostFix which works as a sort of amalgamation of email authentication and challenge/ response. In theory, at least, and hopefully in…

There are so many anti-spam products out there for Windows users, how is a person to know which one to choose?

by Karl Jacobs, CEO of Cloudmark Email security is becoming a critical concern for small businesses today as email infrastructure is under constant attack from spam, viruses and fraud attacks.  Spam, known as unsolicited e-mail, has become the single largest nuisance for Internet users with an estimated 45% of all email being defined…

Taking a page from Bush the Senior, who immortalized the words “Read My Lips, No New Taxes”, President Bush today signed into law a three-year ban on the taxation of Internet connections. The new law completely bans any tax on any sort of Internet connection, from dial-up to broadband. Said…

And you thought that Lycos’ “Make Love Not Spam” screensaver was bad (or good, depending on how you looked at it). A company called Symbiot has developed a software package which is ostensibly designed to protect your system from attacks…by mounting a good offense qua defense. Using a process which…

I hope that all of you Windows users listened to Aunty, and didn’t download that Lycos “Make Love Not Spam” screensaver. Netcraft has announced that Lycos Europe has pulled their screensaver project, “Make Love Not Spam”, and now when you go to the site it simply displays a cute little…

A new security warning issued by Microsoft this week affects a large number of Windows users. In fact, according to the Microsoft site, people who should read the warning include “Customers who use Microsoft Windows”. That’s a pretty broad field. The security issue, rated by Microsoft as “Critical”, involves a…

It’s (one of) every IT manager’s nightmare: thousands of users, downloading and installing a seemingly innocent add-on program, in this case one offering to speed up their Internet experience. However, in reality, the program has the ability to compromise the most sensitive of user information, including passwords and more. This…

You just knew it had to happen, right? You can’t take aim at a group of spammers and just expect them to sit there quietly and take it on the chin. At least, not if you have half a brain. I mean, spammers aren’t really known for their social gracefulness,…

As could have been predicted, Lycos Europe’s “Make Love, Not Spam” campaign is drawing a lot of sharp criticism. In fact, Steve Linford of the anti-spam company SpamHaus has been quoted as saying that “It’s irresponsible of Lycos to put its name to it because it lends legitimacy to [DDoS]…

Almost a year to the day that Federal law makers passed the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and sent it to the president for signing, the Ohio state legislature has passed, by 89-1, what is being lauded as one of the toughest anti-spam laws in the country. Acts prohibited under the…

According to a report prepared by Harvard Law student Benjamin Edelman, if you use Gator, now owned by Claria, you may be in a bit of a bind if you want to remove the GAIN (Gator Advertising Information Network) adware which has been installed on your computer by the Gator…