The very good anti-virus software got a little better with version 8. But the free version (which made it so popular) is not yet available. For now, you’ll have to stick to the excellent v7.5.
Category: SPAM
This year wishes come from scammers, too
Visibly, in 2008, scammers and spammers start early: The sheer number of emailed wish cards seems to have increased to very high levels. Only one advice: If you receive a “best wishes” electronic card from somebody that you don’t know, don’t even spend time (and computer security) checking it. It’s most probably a mean to…
Print all the world’s SPAM
In 1998, Nick Philip created an art installation willing to show the real volume of SPAM. An email address on nowhere.com forwards all SPAM it receives to fax machines that print it all.
Fight SPAM and scan books
It is well known that the human brain has pattern matching capabilities much further advanced than those of the best equivalent software programs. This explains that failure rates of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program may be as high as 1% (or even 2%) of errors, which is requiring later human proof-reading to ensure a reasonable…
Spammers hit by the SEC
You certainly noticed in the flood of SPAMs that is probably arriving in your mailbox as in mine, that many of them are promoting stock exchange securities -that you usually do not know about. This is generally part of an elaborate (but old) scam known as ‘pump and dump‘. It consists in buying shares of…
Ridiculed scammers
For once, a scammer let us smile (though against his will). Let’s smile. Today, it is the 419 scammers that have been baited by an Internet user who decided to have fun with them and convinced them that he would give a lot of money to people who would recreate famous scenes from movies or…
Chirurgy and web site
As you certainly noticed, we changed significantly the look-and-feel of our web site. The plastic surgeon used its scalpel to give a new face to the web site: reduce the size of the pages (faster downloads for you), improve readability (the white background increases the contrast), come back to a more sober graphic design (only…
SPAM is flaring up again
As a matter of fact, the holiday season seems to be a season of SPAM. This web site is receiving again a large amount of comment SPAM. I guess that the spammers are hoping to catch bloggers while they are distracted by more family matters. Thanks to Akismet for catching all that. I only have…
Advertising turns to SPAM on MySpace
When a good idea appears in the Internet space, it attracts people, a lot of idle people and a lot of marketing people. Of course, with marketing comes its shameful brother: SPAM. This is exactly what is happening right now on MySpace, the virtual social network where teens have been spreading and sharing for months…