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29 percent of Internet users have purchased something they were pointed to via spam, according to a study by Marshal. Not surprisingly, the most commonly purchased items include Viagra and porn, but also software, and luxury items such as watches, jewelery and clothing - the counterfeit type.

News Analysis. Microsoft could use a little good news about why Google Sites is bad. Looks like spammers and malware distributors are ruining Google's neighborhood.

Dear startups: I know you think your new company is important enough that everyone wants to hear about it all the time, and I know the marketing folks tell you that email newsletters are a great way to keep new customers from forgetting you exist after they sign up, but you’re wrong and they’re lying.

Posting emails addresses on public forums and webpages is a sure shot way to get your email address picked by Spam Bots and get listed on spam lists, the most common hack used to prevent SPAM BOTS is to post email address in malformed state for example xyz@abc.com can be posted as xyz [AT] abc.com

It seems that every single day I get more and more spam. By spam I mainly mean comment spam on my many blogs. I could just as easily complain about email spam, but that’s really another issue. I’ve written about spam and spammers recently and the measures I’ve taken to combat spam on my blogs.

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Recently I visited the Affiliate Summit East and got to meet some Black Hat SEOs from WickedFire. I won’t go into a review on the summit in this blog, but I will talk about some interesting conversations I had with the black hats.

Call it outreach, call it propaganda or call it brilliance or even desperate measures, spammers (people) who favour the Georgian side in the recent conflict have been spamming using email, to get their point across.

So… I’m really having a spam issue right now. More than I ever have before that I can remember. I’ve been keeping up on this blog which talks about new dangers out there in the cyber-interweb world, and it’s been helpful to keep me aware, and it’s so accurate. No sooner did I read about a new one today that it’s appearing in my inbox.

Check out the Brunswick Zone bonuszone.com web site for discounts on bowling. Remember to create a special email address for subscribing to sites like this. This will keep the SPAM away from your real email address. If you don’t know how to create a special email address for this, go to gmail.google.com and created a gmail account.