Spam Bulletin - December 2006

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editor: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2006-12-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; The medium or the message? Dealing with image spam (feature)

News

Anti-spammer loses case

Anti-spam activist sued in case that brings enforceability of state anti-spam laws into question.



Feature

The medium or the message? Dealing with image spam

In last month's VB John Graham-Cumming reported on the rise and rise of image spam. Here, Catalin Cosoi describes a technique for dealing with this form of spam.

Catalin Alexandru Cosoi - BitDefender, Romania


Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - December 2006

What is anti-virus software? (comment); Leaps and bounds (analysis); What next? Trojan.Linkoptimizer (analysis); Trojan crimeware - is it worth all the fuss? (feature); Windows XP x64 (comparative review); VB2007 Vienna (call for papers)



Poll

Do you use the same password(s) across multiple websites?
I use the same password for all sites
I have a number of passwords but use the same for some sites
I use a different password for each site
I don't sign up to any sites that require a password

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