Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Administration
MySpace can collect $6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users.
An arbitrator has ruled that Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colo., must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in attorney’s fees for barraging MySpace members with [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Administration
Spam email spiked to its highest rate in over a year last month, accounting for 76.8 percent of all email in May, according to a new report from MessageLabs. That’s the biggest chunk of spam email since February of 2007, when spam levels were at 77.8 percent of all email.
Spam email increased by over three [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2008 by Administration
If you’re regularly sent TinyURLs but have been burned one too many times by clicking through to an embarrassing link at the wrong time, head to TinyURL’s preview page and enable previews. This old but useful feature will set a cookie in your browser, and henceforth all TinyURLs you click on with direct you to [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Administration
From perishablepress.com…
In our original htaccess blacklist article, we provide an extensive list of bad user agents. This so-called “Ultimate htaccess Blacklist” works great at blocking many different online villains: spammers, scammers, scrapers, scrappers, rippers, leechers — you name it. Yet, despite its usefulness, there is always room for improvement. For example, as reader Greg suggests, [...]
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Posted on March 13th, 2008 by Administration
Now-a-days the Internet has become a home to spam. Literally millions of spam bots crawl the web daily, to find email addresses and then bombard them with spam emails thus destroying their efficiency and creating problems for users/admins. The easiest solution to this problem is to get a temporary or disposable e-mail inbox which automatically [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Administration
So there was an online poll set up on a website I help admin and noticed one contestant’s votes going up by 300 votes overnight. In comparison, other contestants would go up 100 votes in a whole day. This person was obviously cheating by using proxys and/or intercepting/modifying the HTTP headers, as the IP addresses [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Administration
Tired of getting phone calls from the same 800-type phone number, but have no idea who’s calling? 800Notes.com, a free user-submitted reverse phone directory, lets you see who might be ringing, whether it’s a sales firm, debt collection agency, or other cloaked caller. Whether or not you find a match depends on if anybody else [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Administration
The Digital Inspiration blog points out a Gmail trick that’s been just under the surface all along. Everyone who has an “name@gmail.com” address can also receive mail sent to “name@googlemail.com.” What’s the big deal? Well, knowing this gives you a stronger hand when you fight against spam, bacn, and all that other not-so-important but distracting [...]
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