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Friday Five: Silly Spammers

Friday July 31, 2009

Five awesome spam subject lines recently received: Energy to tear her ham wallet! The longer your love instrument is, the longer the pleasure lasts. Power up your pork rocket. By enhancing your friend down there you enhance your popularity. With blue pills you can be macho even at 70!

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Personal Library Hack

Monday August 25, 2008

Here’s a little trick to help you keep your books from getting lost forever. If you’re like me, you get a ton of snail-mail spam, what we used to call “junk mail”. Lots and lots of companies — especially those concerned with getting your money to save the whales, the environment, the lives of endangered [...]

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Cell Phone Spam

Tuesday July 15, 2008

I have gotten over a dozen phone calls today from (949) 374-5125 and (208) 650-4253. I had been answering the phone on the first or second ring and there would be nobody there. At first I assumed it was just some moron repeatedly calling the wrong number. But just now a call from the first [...]

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AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0

Wednesday May 28, 2008

If you’re getting that annoying message telling you that your copy of AVG Anti-Virus is about to expire, you can get the new version here.

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Akismet Works

Wednesday April 2, 2008

I installed Akismet here at the beginning of the Fall of 2006. I really don’t know how I lived without it. I emptied the queue about seven hours ago, and when I got to the office this morning there were already almost 1500 comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks flagged as spam. Akismet has protected your site [...]

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A Chick with Problems Big and Small

Wednesday August 8, 2007

Wow. You have got to feel bad for Kaitlin Corcoran. She’s got identity issues; she’s unclear on what her middle name is. She’s dating two guys at the same time, and they both have drastic problems with their anatomy. And she feels the need to tell me — a complete stranger — all about it. [...]

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Turn On Links

Tuesday February 20, 2007

One of the world’s worst, most-annoying spam-prevention systems is the one in my current version of Outlook — Microsoft® Outlook® 2003 (11.8002.6568) SP2. I’d say about one out of every three times I attempt to click on a link in an email, I get a warning telling me that all links in the message have [...]

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AmericanGreetings Valentine Virus

Wednesday February 14, 2007

If you get an email with the subject line “Valentine’s Day eCard !” that looks like it came from AmericanGreetings <services@americangreetings.com>, it’s most likely a virus. I’m not even going to take a chance by clicking the link. The link appears to be to the americangreetings.com domain, but if you hover your mouse over it [...]

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Akismet and Comment Spam

Thursday January 11, 2007

Since I installed it 143 days ago, Akismet has killed 23,683 spam comments on this blog. That’s an absurd 165 pieces of spam per day. And the number is definitely increasing daily at what I consider an astronomical rate. I have no doubt that in the time it takes me to write this post I [...]

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Weight Spam

Friday November 3, 2006

I receive an incredible amount of spam. I have a dozen or so email accounts and I manage about two dozen websites. Plus I run the IT department at my office. I get about 500 spam comments and 1500 spam pingbacks and / or trackbacks on blogs each day, and that’s with Akismet and a [...]

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