If you receive an e-mail claiming to offer “documentary materials” proving a link between the Bush Administration and Al-Qaeda, don’t open it — it’s an e-mail worm. Apparently it’s not a very good e-mail worm, because after awhile it just stops working. Still, don’t open any file that says september11.exe.
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I’m glad I don’t use sparkLIST…
By Tom Mighell on
If you read last week’s issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, you’ll know we’re currently talking about spam — how it happens, and how to avoid it. This article from the New York Times Technology Page reports how tens of thousands of e-mail newsletter subscribers have been receiving porn spam and other unsolicited
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Drive-By Spamming?
By Tom Mighell on
In a follow-up to my article in this week’s Internet Legal Research Weekly, this article from CNET discusses how companies with wireless networks may be vulnerable to spammers. All they have to do is drive up to a building with an insecure wireless network, log in, and spam away.
Have you gotten any of these e-mails?
By Tom Mighell on
Sophos, an anti-virus company, has released its list of the Top Ten E-Mail Hoaxes in August. If you get an e-mail that’s on the list, please, PLEASE think before you forward the e-mail to everyone you know.
Hate popups? Kill ’em dead
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Security
A Baltimore company is rolling out a software tool called I Hate Popups, a utility designed to eliminate popup ads that plague all of us while we search. It’s free to try, $9.95 to purchase.