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... So what? - I'll come clean. I still peruse through my spam folder a couple of times a week. First, although GMail is very good at stopping spam (if I get 5 a week into my inbox that's a lot), but it does stop some ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2008-05-13 10:21 - 0 comments

... get a good bargain. Or they'll do nothing (like with anti-spam) and totally miss the market. But they aren't the only shop that will be ... some of this does happen - although not fast enough. The spam vendors also have millions of honey pots out there to gather data about ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2008-01-07 10:35 - 0 comments

... and leverage something I know a little bit about - anti-spam. Basically, there are about 30-40 different techniques you can use to determine if a message is spam. None work all the time, in fact most are downright abysmal across the ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-08-07 15:22 - 1 comment

... their zombie/bot issues. BT has been the first to look at spam bots, but that won't help much when a DDoS is launched. And the ... and it'll also identify if any of your machines are spam bots. If your inbound mail is substantial, you may want to get another ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-11-10 10:10 - 1 comment

... stealing web sites will increase. Also expect to see more spam and the use of bots. That Captain Obvious suit is getting around, no? But ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-11-30 10:06 - 1 comment

... Link to this Of course spam works My bud EO (Eric Ogren) does a little Captain Obvious sleuthing here to come to the conclusion that spam works. Being a true capitalist, I know that we wouldn't get so much of ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2007-01-04 10:15 - 1 comment

... sequential growth in bots. Makes sense given the rise in spam and ID theft. Link to this 6 ways to Roto-Rooter ... disciplines to hit the big time. I guess anti-spam and web filtering are information oriented, but in kind of an outside-in ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2007-03-19 08:46 - 1 comment

... options for email encryption and also a bit on stopping spam and viruses at the gateway. They finish up with a little on securing ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-11-02 14:07 - 1 comment

... options for email encryption and also a bit on stopping spam and viruses at the gateway. They finish up with a little on securing ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-11-02 14:07 - 1 comment

... why security hasn't gotten better. That's why spam is still sent with reckless abandon. It's because there remains an ... as phishing works to compromise private information, and spam works to pump stock and sell trinkets, and millions of machines remain ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2007-01-19 11:42 - 0 comments