Here’s a little warning to you all. A few days ago I got a message from one of the users at Entrecard asking me to do an ad-click-trade. He clicks on my Google Adsense ads and I click on his so that we both earn money. dear sir/madam, i just …

Today I notice a weird message in one of our discussion forums. It’s a spam bot hosted by Keyweb AG in Germany trying to figure out if the discussion forum is moderated or not. The good thing is that this forum where the spam was posted in is actually moderated, …

As a follow up on yesterdays post about Akismet and how it’s not stopping spam as effective as it used to I’ve counted the spam comments we’ve received in 3 of our blogs since the 10th of October 2008. On the graph you can see 3 major “incidents” where the …

Most of you already know about the WordPress plugin Akismet and you may also laready use it to stop spam in your WordPress blog. But recently we’ve discovered that the plugin is not working as good as it used to. When we started using the plugin it stopped 100% of …

Google has announced that they will turn off their service for phishing protection used by Firefox 2. This due to the old protocol used for communication and that Firefox 3 is out since a long time ago. Therefore it’s important to upgrade to Firefox 3 as soon as possible because …

One of the hackers, Maksym Yastremskiy, that hacked the network at TJX Maxx and got access to over 40 million credit card numbers got sentenced to 30 years in prison. During 2005 they hacked the wire-less network at TJX Maxx hacked and by using trojans and other spyware programs they could …

A new trojan called Troj/Qhost-AC is blocking access to file sharing sites like The Pirate Bay, Mininova and Suprbay. The trojan is said to be a keygen to unlock pirated software and when it’s installed on the computer it’s changing the host file in Windows to redirect some file sharing …

Have you recently noticed an increase in spam linking to docs.google.com? If so there’s a reason for it. More and more spammers have figured out how to abuse Googles fantastic services to redirect visitors to other sites (the spammers own sites) 🙁 Most free web services like for example Hotmail, …

This Monday McAfee released an update of their antivurs software that by accident classified a file in Windows Vista as a trojan. The supposed trojan should steal the users password according to the incorrect information from McAfee and some users may have gotten the file ”conime.exe” deleted from their Windows …