Spam Counts The 30-day spam count for my Gmail account dropped almost 7% to 366 spam messages. None made it through. Back on December 3rd when I started counting the spam I had only 18 spam messages in a 5 day period. Now I’m averaging 61 spam messages every five days. Comment spam at The [...] Read more »
May 2007 Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released five critical security bulletins for desktop software today. In line with a growing trend, 3 of the 5 were for application software and not operating systems. Most of the vulnerabilities were also intended to be exploited through a website. Mac users also take notice since Office 2004 for the Mac is also vulnerable [...] Read more »
Summary of Week Ending May 5th
Spam Counts My GMail spam count held steady from last week and stayed at 392 spam emails stopped in the last 30 days. Comment spam at The OS Quest exploded and closed in at 1,000 but stopped at 976. With a 98% increase in just a week It came close to receiving nearly as much [...] Read more »
Avast AntiVirus Updated
Avast Antivirus, a free (for personal use, with registration) antivirus program has issued another program update which was downloaded to my PC today. It was upgraded from Avast! Antivirus 4.7.986 to 4.7.1001. This is the third program update by Avast in April. Prior to the three April updates the most recent update was in January. [...] Read more »
U.S. AntiSpyware Legislation: Oh-oh
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee approved a bill known as the Internet Spyware Prevention Act which was given the catchy name “I-Spy”. As a CNet News article points out, this has been tried before and hasn’t passed. While outlawing spam seems like a good idea in theory I suspect it will fail in practice. [...] Read more »