Saturday, March 8th, 2008
New spam emails can turn vulnerable PCs into spam-spreading 'zombies'.
The spam has a link which purports to allow users to opt out of future emails. However, MessageLabs, an e-mail filtering company, warns that these links are part of a scam and, if clicked on, will turn a victim's PC into ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The ranks of spyware and adware expand daily, but some take root more often than others. Here are six of the usual suspects.
These spyware and adware mischief-makers have taken root on more than their share of hard disks. Symptoms include performance and compatibility problems, not to mention continuous pop-up invasions.
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
From the scam of a lifetime department: A spammer in our Broadband Tweaks forum is pushing a referral scam service called Juice Boost, which promises users 2Mbps speeds for free, anywhere there's a phone line, using "State-of-the-art data compression, byte stream and ultimate data burst technology". The service also promises ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Large companies are now so concerned about the contents of the electronic communications leaving their offices that they're employing staff to read employees' outgoing e-mails. According to research from Forrester Consulting, 44 per cent of large corporations in the United States now pay someone to monitor and snoop on what's ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The people in my personal focus group (my wife, my mother, and some coworkers at CNET) agree that this is one of the creepiest things they've ever heard of: a new service that will tell your correspondents exactly when you opened the e-mail they sent you. It will also tell ...
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