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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »