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Referrer Spam Author : Andrew Symonds
Spamming is just spamming until one technique came. This is perhaps one of the most ingenious moves made by those who spam. It is cleverly disguised as legitimate websites or e-mails. The illegitimacy will only be noticed upon close scrutiny. This is what most people know as a referrer spam. Referrer spamming is conducted through the use of websites. This method utilizes various landing pages which were methodically done in order to rank in va...

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When Hormel Takes The Fight Out of Spam Author : Faldo
In the past few years Hormel Foods Corporation has been doing the legal rounds in preventing software companies from using the word "spam" in the branding of their junk email fighting products. An Associated Press (AP) article recently said Hormel was afraid this practice of software companies may dilute its brand name. It is totally understandable that Hormel is merely protecting one of its most treasured brand names. They are afraid that the...

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Even The War Mongers Have Gotten Into Spamming Author : Faldo
Everyone has had their fair share of junk email in their inbox. The topics are an entirely eclectic mix--from recommendations to buy stocks to sex performance enhancing medicines to outright scams. The people behind such spam are usually unscrupulous marketers and entrepreneurs out to make a quick buck. But nowadays, even the war mongers have resorted to spamming as a venue to address their deceitful propaganda. One of my most obedient friends...

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How To Tighten Up Your Email Security Author : Internet Security Squad
These days email is a necessary part of communication. However, this also means that email is one of the most popular ways for a virus to infect your computer. You need to protect yourself from the threat of fraud and infection. Viruses Email attachments often contain viruses so you need to be careful whenever you open any type of attachment even if you know the sender. There are some viruses that can infiltrate your address book and then s...

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How to reduce spam Author : Tim Shaw
SPAM is the one thing that is certain with the Internet, and there are few people who have not experienced at least one spam email. Whether annoying or time-wasting, or actually offensive and rude, follow these steps to eliminate it. Spam type number one- random attacks Many spam is just sent to random addresses, in the hope of someone receiving them. Try these XX tips to stop random attack spam 1. Do not have a catch-all email address A ...

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The Problem Of Demoting Spam On The Internet: Yahoo!’s Trustrank Approach Author : Danny Wirken -
TrustRank is an attempt to counter the web spamming activities that threatens to deceive search engines’ ranking algorithms. It propagates trust among web pages in the same manner that PageRank propagates authority. However, tests would show that the combination of trust and distrust values have greater ability to demote spam sites than with the use of trust values alone. The Assumption A link between two pages holds an implied conveyance o...

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Spam: Where it Came From, and How to Escape It. (via CobWeb/3.1 kupl1.ittc.ku.edu) Author : Stanley
Who Cooked This!? (How did it all start?) The modern meaning of the word "spam" has nothing to do with spiced ham. In the early 1990's, a skit by British comedy group Monty Python led to the word's common usage. "The SPAM Skit" follows a couple struggling to order dinner from a menu consisting entirely of Hormel's canned ham. Repetition is key to the skit's hilarity. The actors cram the word "SPAM" into the 2.5 minute skit more than 10...

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Two Main Groups Of Spam! (via CobWeb/3.1 kupl1.ittc.ku.edu) Author : Camry James -
There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at lurkers, people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of ...

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Fighting Spam! (via CobWeb/3.1 kupl1.ittc.ku.edu) Author : Darry J.Oswald -
It's been nearly a decade since spammers and their enemies begun evolving competitively. As with the classic cheetah/gazelle model originally formulated by Darwin, each time one group becomes a little faster or more agile, its adversaries develop traits for outwitting and outrunning it. In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as...

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An Introduction To Spam Filters Author : Peter Emerson
Using spam filters is another very effective way of combating spam or junk mail. These programs use some keywords like ‘guaranteed’, ‘free’, etc and block any email with those words in them. But this has the disadvantage of sometimes blocking even important mails from your contacts and preventing those senders from sending mails to your address again. The way out is to use add-on spam filters which allow you to control the content that should be ...

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