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What’s SPIM? SPIM is SPAM sent to instant messaging clients instead of email clients. This week a US Teenager became the first person arrested for sending SPIM after he was accused of sending more then 1.5 million unsolicited IM’s to members of MySpace.com. The police lured him to fly to Los Angeles on a business offer, then arrested him when he arrived and they were able to ID him. Here’s more on the details of the story from News.com ..
It was only a month ago that Microsoft Corp. announced its free antispyware application; however, malware has already been detected by an antivirus company, Sophos PLC, that will disable Microsoft's program and delete all files in the program's installation directory. The malware, known as BankAsh-A, not only deletes all of the Microsoft antispyware files, it then goes on to install
Pirate Pocket Mechanic, get your data booty plundered, matey (Engadget)“Anyone remember CDRWin? If you gave it a pirated serial it would just take it without question and punish you by spitting out bad CDs all the time. Well, a bit more harsh is the maker of Pocket Mechanic, Anton Tomov, who programmed his app to hard reset (i.e. cause total data
I have been doing some research were Geek News Central is supposedly hitting sites with trackback pings, when in fact we never did. Some low life's are trying to jury rig the trackback process.. The only thing I can figure is they are adding the pings to their database by hand or have a tool that does a fake reverse
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Blog about work or make your employer look bad and don't be surprised to receive a pink slip. This is the #1 reason I never discuss my work or anything remotely close to a topic that could get me in trouble. Boing Boing has a list of companies that have all fired webloggers. [BoingBoing] Note: Any company that wants to
Panda Software, a respected vendor of antivirus software applications within the technical community, has named a Trojan, Downloader.GK, as the most malicious virus of 2004. Even though Downloader.GK isn't technically a virus, an application that independently distributes itself, the program has caused the most damage to users' computers, according to data collected by Panda Software's ActiveScan process. Until now, the