Entries posted in June, 2008

Spam harvester tracking

Stumbled on this today, while investigating dodgy user agent strings: “Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website.  More »

Our top 40 local searches

A few months ago I wrote about how most of our visitors come here via a Google search. A small percentage of those even use the search box on the top-right, once they get here.  More »

Trust the Midas touch?

I received this “mainsleaze” spam a few days ago from Midas. Now this is supposed to be a reputable, mainstream company but stupid actions such as this are likely to damage their reputation for quite a while: Looking at the email headers and body reveals that apart from “dataxlt.com”, “online-replies.  More »

Dell phishing scam

I received this email, claiming to be from Dell, and offering to give me a free laptop, just for answering a short survey: From: “Computer Testing Program” <KelleyDominguez@shulogu.matfelon.com> To: xxx@lutrov.  More »

Microsoft’s cashback and Yahoo

Microsoft recently announced that it’s willing to pay people money for using their crappy search engine, provided the people buy something, and provided the people live in America. The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Microsoft aren’t after Google, they’re actually after Yahoo.  More »