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Do not call, do not spam, do not mail 8 May 08, 22:42 ET Struggling back from our mailboxes on Earth Day, we found ourselves under a heavy load and we contemplated yet another postal rate increase. ... more The Perp Walk 8 May 08, 18:04 ET Your comment will be posted immediately, unless it is spam or contains profanity. For more information, please see our comment guidelines . Luke Mullins is an associate editor at U.S. News , covering banking, real estate, and white-collar crime. more Srizbi Botnet Accounts for Half of All Spam 8 May 08, 17:55 ET A single botnet has grown so dramatically in the last two months that it now accounts for half of all the spam, according to new research from Marshal's ... more Stop Spam. Publish Books 8 May 08, 17:48 ET Can you really stop the global fight against spam AND help to publish books online? Yes, using a nifty website called reCAPTCHA. ... more Finding God in your inbox? Spam goes spiritual 8 May 08, 17:33 ET By Kristen Campbell, Religion News Service Then, slipped into the cyber-epistle, the kicker: If you love God and/or are not ashamed of your religious ... more Live music best bets 8 May 08, 14:27 ET Loading ... *To prove you're a person (not a spam script), type the security text shown in the picture. Click here to regenerate some new text . Rock Candy will focus on indie/alternative rock, electronic, international and country/roots. more Srizbi now the dominant spam botnet 8 May 08, 12:09 ET Research by Marshal claims the last two months have seen the botnet Srizbi dramatically growing in threat. The new botnet on the block Srizbi now accounts ... more E-mail users got first taste of spam 30 years ago 8 May 08, 11:57 ET From the first mass unsolicited messages in 1978 to the 120 billion that are sent every day now, two things have stayed constant -- people hate them, but they make marketers money, Vito Pilieci writes. more The Spam Report, May 2008 8 May 08, 11:05 ET By Mark Sutton on Thursday, May 08, 2008 Symantec's monthly spam report for the month of April 2008 shows that while spam may have reached its 30 th ... more Srizbi Botnet Sets New Records for Spam 8 May 08, 09:59 ET Researchers claim the botnet is responsible for 50 percent of all spam, and is the biggest of its kind in history. It's 300000 zombie computers are being ... more Srizbi Botnet, Half Of All Spam 8 May 08, 09:58 ET A single botnet has grown so dramatically in the last two months that it now accounts for half of all the spam, according to new research from Marshal’s ... more Twitter: Yep, We've Got A Spam Problem 8 May 08, 09:56 ET We'd been wondering when Twitter would start tackling its increasing spam problem. Now blogger Jesse Stay tells us the messaging platform is quitely trying ... more Poll: Do You Report Your Competitors as Spam in Google? 8 May 08, 08:17 ET Ann Smarty goes through the conflicts of reporting competitors as spamming Google search results. Yes, this is a topic we covered many times here, including: Reporting Spam: Is It Ethical How Can I Report Spam to Google? Google Spam Reporting Working Does Google Investigate Spam Reports? Quick Spam Reporting Tool In any event, the related Sphinn thread has discussion on ... more Spam & Hackers Staying One Step Ahead of Password Thieves 8 May 08, 03:23 ET By Etan Horowitz Since most people need passwords to secure lots of important information, remembering more than one or two long passwords is difficult. ... more Srizbi sending half the world's spam 8 May 08, 02:32 ET by Stephen Withers The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company. "Srizbi is the single greatest spam threat ... more What's Considered Spam On Twitter? 8 May 08, 00:34 ET I have been using Twitter for a while now, and it is quite a useful tool. I don't know that it is an indispensable utility that I depend on, ... more

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