spamming

Into every life, a little spam must fall. About half the e-mail sent every day is junk. You can be as careful as you want with your e-mail address, yet somehow, word gets out, and the junk flows in. But there is one thing you can do to trace leaks when they occur, and it's free. The secret is to...

Internet security firm McAfee recently released its January 2010 spam report which included a summation of the 2009 spam world. Included was a list of the top celebrities used to bait you into reading spam. You just can't pass up Angelina Jolie or Oprah Winfrey, can you? The study also found that,...

A plan by Yahoo to have its e-mail users voluntarily pay a penny for each e-mail they send to help cut down on spam may test the limits of how much -- if anything -- people are willing to pay for anything on the Internet that is already free.Even the lowly penny may be too much too much for people...

His name is Sanford Wallace, and his alleged spamming might possibly make him the most disliked man on the Internet. Facebook has a civil lawsuit pending against him, which has been stalled by his filing for bankruptcy. Myspace has already been granted a $230 million judgment against him for...