Sophos is claiming that this latest Sober.P variant now accounts for almost 79% of all viruses that the anti-virus firm sees on their protected networks. They also estimate it’s over 2% of all e-mail, although an estimate like this is likely to be harder to make. Swirbo can definitely vouch for this increase — the…
As an IT services firm, our clients frequently ask us to handle the removal of spyware from their machines. Inevitably, we get the question… “Why do people do this?” Our natural answer was always, “To make money…” Not very informative if you think about it. When the extra-curious clients ask “Why”, we would give a…
Ah, the proliferation of digital devices! Doesn’t it seem that everyone has shiny new TREO or BLACKBERRY that keeps them connected to their email 24/7? Could the world move any faster to a spammer’s paradise? I recently attended a seminar, “Get Motivated”, which had all sorts of A-Type personalities seeking to glean knowledge from the…
Last week, NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer announced a lawsuit against one of the country’s biggest Internet marketing companies, Intermix Media, Inc., in connection to their support of spyware and other forms of adware. People are now beginning to speculate that Intermix may just be the start, as they follow the money:
I recently read an interesting post on Jackson Miller’s blog about where to store thoughts while researching. I echo his sentiments in that I’ve had very little luck finding anything that really assists with creativity and brainstorming. Originally, I used a program called ‘The Brain‘ by a company called Natrificial. It was awesome eye candy…
Kasperky’s site has some more details on the latest variation of Sober.P going around.
We at CentreSource are huge proponents of the Debian distribution of GNU/Linux, which is why it delights me to see that Sarge (3.1) has officially been frozen. No word on hell, yet, but I would expect it should follow closely after the pigs fly. In all seriousness, Debian’s release timelines are not one of its…
This one slipped by me, but on the 1st, Levano officially bought IBM’s PC division. It will be interesting to see how this proceeds.
CNET has a great article covering the ongoing battle between municipal public ISPs and the big telcos, including this handy map of ongoing legislative battles. Here’s what it had to say about Tennessee: Municipal wireless Functioning projects: Franklin, Jackson Projects under development or consideration: Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis,Clarksville, Lebanon, Murfreesboro Municipal fiber-to-the-premise Functioning projects: Jackson Projects…
Nick highlighted some of the disadvantages of E-mail handshaking as a spam prevention method (or “challenge/response” for the technical term) in this post. Yet another disadvantage is a little understood, highly problematic and confusing problem called “backscatter”. What is backscatter exactly? To explain backscatter, we need to start with how mailservers dealt with unknown users…
