My Gmail 30-day spam count was almost unchanged at 305, down just 2 from last week’s 307. My second GMail account picked up a three new phishing emails from last week bringing the total to eight. Seven have been for Paypal and one claimed to be from the “National Credit Union Association”. So far the [...] Read more »
Eight Anti-Spam Tips
The best ways to prevent spam aren’t necessarily software and ISP spam filters. Our own habits and email practices can reduce spam without costing a dime. Here’s some of the things I do to keep spam away. 1. Have a disposable email address that you can use for websites and other registrations. Setup a mailbox [...] Read more »
Security Update 2007-05 for Mac OS X
Apple has released Security Update 2007-05 which keeps it in the one-a-month category for the year. According to the Apple notification it contains updates to the following components: bind CarbonCore CoreGraphics crontabs fetchmail file iChat mDNSResponder PPP ruby screen texinfo VPN The update is for both Intel and PPC macs. Read more »
Spam Counts for Week Ending May 20, 2007
The 30-day spam count for my GMail account continued to drop this week. It was down 16%, from 366 to 307. I have a second GMail account that was created less than a month ago. It received 5 PayPal phishing emails, two of which made it through the GMail spam filters. The two that made [...] Read more »
Symantec: Hackers Can Bypass Firewall With Windows Update
Symantec has been in the news recently for saying Microsoft’s Windows Update can be used to update malware. Specifically, for using BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) to update itself. Some took the headline view when they posted about the story and gave the impression that Windows Update was vulnerable. It makes good headlines to say [...] Read more »