I got my first password stealing trojan yesterday. My, they’re good. I’ve never shopped at Citibank (sorry, Ditta) but for a moment I thought that maybe I had . This was what the email looked like: Dear sir, Thank you for your online application for a Citibank Home Equity Loan. In order to be… Read More »
Good news for Gator, the adware company I wrote about a few weeks back. According to CNET News.com a federal court has ruled that pop-up ads for rivals of U-Haul International, placed atop the moving company’s own site by a third-party software application from WhenU.com, are legal. Although the case doesn’t involve Gator Corp,… Read More »
Newly arrived anti-spam service Aliencamel, which I mentioned in an earlier column, tell me they’ve beefed up their service by ‘double scanning’ every email with virus engines from RAV and Kapersky. Aliencamel’s spam technology uses server-based whitelists — allowing email from such addresses to get through — and blacklists — blocking out ‘bad’ email senders… Read More »
Loose Wire — On-Line Ad Attack: It’s Pop-Up Hell: If ads keep creeping across your screen, you may be a victim of spyware — software that monitors your our surfing habits; It’s time to get rid of the invaders By Jeremy Wagstaff from the 12 June 2003 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review,… Read More »