08/31 2005 – What does spam mean to you? Today I received a cease and decist notice from the intellectual property law firm Merchant & Gould, acting for Hormel Foods, the company that actually owns the trademark SPAM (as in pressed, canned, luncheon meat). If you haven’t ever heard about this rather vicious canned product, [...]
Sober.q worm spamming from whitehouse.gov
2005-05-19 Av Kommentera
Yesterday, when the Sober.q worm hit, I was somewhat disturbed by the fact that this domain was getting bounces where one of my addresses had been used as the from address for these political spam messages. I don’t know if I should feel better when realizing that the president@whitehouse.gov address is used for this too. [...]
Loads of German political spam via Sober.q
2005-05-18 Av Kommentera
I’m actually quite relieved that it’s not only me getting almost a thousand spam mails in German today. At first I was worried, since I have been receiving almost as many bounces to one of my email addresses used at Drinkalizer.com. But now I hear complaints from all over. And according to F-Secure, it’s a [...]
Gevalia på oväntat besök i inkorgen
2005-05-13 Av Kommentera
2005-05-13 – Har du fått spam om Gevalia på sistone? Då är du långt ifrån ensam. Ett av Krafts amerikanska bolag har på sistone valt att marknadsföra Gevalia-kaffe på den amerikanska marknaden genom att anlita de riktiga storspammarna som Eddie Marin, Scott Richter eller några av deras kollegor. Inom anti-spamkretsar pratar många om att börja [...]
What is Gouranga?
2005-05-09 Av Kommentera
I’ve been hit by loony spam before, and I’m not the only one who’s predicted that we will see more religous spam. Still finding the Gouranga mail when going through the last two weeks of spam made me very curious. My first thought was viral marketing, specially after seeing the first listing in Google’s SERPs. [...]
OptInRealBig spammer files for bankrupcy protection
2005-03-30 Av Kommentera
03/30 2005 – Is this a small victory for the antispam community? From DenverPost.com (and now gone): E-mail marketer Scott Richter fought lawman Eliot Spitzer, but he’s knuckling under to the world’s richest man, Bill Gates. Richter’s company, Westminster-based OptInRealBig.com, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Denver. The company cited a costly legal battle with [...]
Referral spammers (or marketers as they call themselves) are getting desperate
2005-01-31 Av Kommentera
01/31 2005 – It’s amazing what you can find in your referral logs when it comes to referral spammers, but today I was actually spammed by a site selling the tool for doing referral spamming. *effy.net – The Mass Referrer Marketer. [Ducking the nofollow link attribute]They have a page full of info of how referral [...]
Referral spammers – why are they doing it and what should we do about them?
2005-01-07 Av Kommentera
Better anti-spam filtering
2004-11-23 Av Kommentera
11/23 2004 – After a recent change of hosting companies, the amount of spam that makes it through to my inbox is just a fraction of what it used to be. The web hosting company currently hosting this site (Datakultur.com*) has an optional server-side spam filter, that really does the job. Combined with the built-in [...]
Gevalia makes horrible coffee
2004-08-23 Av Kommentera
What is Gloria Hole?
2004-08-06 Av Kommentera
Spam and mail worms… Ha! I'm on a Mac!
2004-05-04 Av Kommentera
05/04 2004 – I don’t know, some days you just feel like relaxing, enjoying a Cosmopolitan drink in a cool bar, or exploring some new exotic drinks with strange liqueurs instead of chasing for new interesting links to follow up. Especially on days like this, when the Sasser virus seem to scare a lot of [...]
Korean spam still tastes the best
2004-04-27 Av Kommentera
04/27 2004 – Evereone reading this site knows how I feel about spam and the scumbag spammers who fill my mail system and use up valuable bandwidth. It all boils down to a distinct feeling pretty close to hatred. Still, there is something special about Korean spam. The cartoon style, the fact that I really [...]
Äntligen ett svenskt spam-förbud!
2004-02-18 Av Kommentera
2004-02-18 – Äntligen är det dags för ett svenskt förbud mot oönskad reklam via epost! Frågan är nu bara om vi får se en sista explotion innan förbudet träder i kraft? Moderaterna är det enda parti som vänder sig emot förslaget eftersom det inte kan anses vara heltäckande. Må så vara, men nu finns det [...]
Epost-reklam till barn – misstag eller slarv?
2004-02-17 Av Kommentera
2004-02-17 – Igår var jag upprörd. Mina två äldsta barn, Alice 10 år och Love 8 år fick båda motta ett s.k. ”medlemsbrev” från KF-företaget PAN Vision. Jag kunde inte förstå hur detta företag, som inget av dem kände till kunde ha fått deras adresser. Tankarna skenade iväg med mig och min mer konspiratoriskt lagda [...]
Someone is spamming from spoofed lindqvist.com addresses
2003-10-07 Av Kommentera
10/07 2003 – Is there something more awful than to open up your inbox just to see it cluttered with mails titled Returned mail: User unknown from senders like Mail Delivery Subsystem? That’s what’s happening to me right now. Someone is using my domain to send out v.i.a.g.r.a spam to a whole bunch of aol.com [...]
Did you get spam today? It was probably Windows powered.
2003-08-20 Av 6 kommentarer
Where you heavily spammed by the new Windows viruses today? Well, you aren’t alone. Milllions of mails with the same 9 subjects have been sent out through Sobig.F infected computers, that now have become virtual spam relay hosts. And if that wasn’t enough, mal-configured anti virus software send out notifications that our email addresses have [...]
Will we see new kinds of spam soon?
2003-08-06 Av Kommentera
1 juli klubbade riksdagen en lag som de inte ens följer själva, som handlar om att jag som sajtägare måste ge dig som besökare möjlighet att stänga av kakor från den här sajten. Jag väljer att följa lagen genom att hänvisa dig till Googles guide för hur det går till att stänga av cookies.
Even more referral spamming domains blocked
02/13 2005 – I’m mildly surprised that the nofollow link attribute doesn’t keep the referral spammers from using more and more domains for their strange kind of marketing attempts. I just keep adding them to my blacklist, whenever I find them. The only thing new is that there see to be more of them doing [...]