Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 bing, email, google, icmail, pop3, SMTP
Back in 2006 I started using an email account with the free email provider icmail.net. I always used the icmail.net account as a secondary email address and stopped accessing the email about two years ago. I recently had a need to access my icmail.net email messages however found that icmail.net is extremely unstable these days [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 CAPTCHA, email, email address, hcard, html, junk mail, lottery scams, microformats, OCR, reCAPTCHA, spam, spam filters, spammers, spamming, unsolicited email
If you have ever put your email address on your website you will know how quickly spambots get your email addres and email huge numbers of messages to your address. There are various scripts (mostly javascript) available which attempt to fool spambots (i.e. hide your email address from spammers) however these scripts are largely ineffective. [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 1 email, gmail, google, internet search, spam, Trojan, virus
Google has very many products both in development and actively being used by huge numbers of people and organizations. Google is mostly known for Internet search however one product used by tens of thousands of organizations (as well as Google’s Gmail) is Postini which provides ‘email security’. Yesterday,‘Q2 2009 Spam trends’ information was posted by [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 2 australian government, backlinks, blogger, blogging, blogs, email, email filters, google, linking, optimization seo, search engine results, search engines, seo, software developers, spam, spammers, spamming, tags: serp, weblog software, weblogs, WordPress
Almost everyone is affected with email spam. Spam detectors / email filters have improved substantially over the past few years but unfortunately the skills of the spammers have also improved. It is not just businesses involved in the fight against spammers but also governments; The Australian government, for example, is taking spamming and the negative [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 anti-virus, email, word
Two eye opening reports have been published recently. Both deal with what has been termed Ghostnet which has been discovered in tracking the infiltration of Tibetan computer networks. The two reports are: ‘Tracking GhostNet’ (University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies and The SecDev Group) and ‘The Snooping Dragon: social-malware surveillance of the Tibetan [...]
