Spam & Phishing

Stupid spammers

Don’t you just hate them ?! I do… They are just wasting my CPU power and bandwidth to detect such stupid evasion techniques. I mean… look at the picture below: Why the hack would I send to myself a picture with all kind of meds and then, write at the end some text from a […]

General

Nigerian scam with MS Word Document attached

There is a new type of Nigerian scam (aka 419 scam) where the body of the email looks like the one in the screen shot below and the real content is in the attached MS Word document. Here is the content of the Word document: Why this ? Because it is very hard to detect […]

Spam & Phishing

MSN Messenger Stock Spam

Here is the first messenger Stock spam 06.08.2008 12:14:45 Graciela: aipepwabemHot Stock Alert Global Agri-Med Technologies Inc. Symbol – GAGO This New and Undervalued bio tech IPO has huge potential with their new product BreastAlert Read their latest PR and get in on GAGO It’s an easy doubler from this point

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Google is … sorry ?

I am using the Google lite extension for Firefox 3. I typed there “futex” (Fast User space muTEX) and I received this URL: http://sorry.google.com/sorry/?continue=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dfutex%26ie%3DUTF-8 and this page: It is really interesting what those links show: virus checker http://www.download.com/Antivirus/3150-2239-0.html spyware remover http://www.download.com/sort/3150-8022-0-1-4.html

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Safari vs. Firefox 2.x

I recently installed Safari and immediately liked it. It looks cool, much cooler than Firefox. But, how friendly is it ? Well, too friendly… as in… too dumb 🙁 Just a very simple example where to save a file. And there are many others. Unfortunately, I had to stop using it. It just doesn’t offer […]