Spam Counts and Summary
Spam Counts My GMail account stands at 392 spam emails in the last 30 days which is down 11% from last week’s 30-day count of 440. The OS Quest comment spam count jumped a staggering 115 to 493 from last week’s 378. This website is now in the sites of the bots and jumped from [...]
Project Honey Pot 5 Days of News
Project Honey Pot tried to make last week their’s by having a significant spam announcement each day last week. On Monday they announced a QuickLinks feature to allow anyone to participate in Project Honey Pot. Quicklinks are for people who don’t have administrator access to their webserver. You hide the link on a web page [...]
Mac Hacked – Both Sides Miss the Point
One of two MacBooks was hacked at the CanWestSec conference is Vancouver, Canada. Both Macbooks were part of the “hack-a-Mac-contest” at the show. A successful hacker got the Macbook. The Macbooks were set up with OS X and all the latest security updates (including 2007-004) but no additional security software or special settings. One of [...]
Viruses, Spam and Software Updates
SPAM Counts My GMail account has stopped 440 SPAM emails in the last 30 days which is a 9% increase from last week’s 30 day total. My other website has had 378 spam comments stopped by Akismet and none made it through. The Spam Chronicles is up to four stopped Spam comments Spam/Virus News Yahoo [...]
Avast AntiVirus Sound Tip
I’ve noticed that people are complaining that Avast announcing “Virus database has been updated” is an annoying feature. A compaint I whole heartily agree with. Here’s how to turn that off: Start Avast AntiVirus Select Settings from the menu Select “Sounds” from the settings dialog Click the “Settings” button (or just check “disable all sounds” [...]