A thread discussing the flurry of spam from aim.com and how to stop it, in particular for gmail users.

A fake update claiming to be from MSN Messenger contains a malicious Trojan.

It looks that airline spammers are not going to stop. They are constantly launching new spam campaigns targeting a number of different airline companies.

Mollom blocks website spam from around the planet. To demonstrate this, we created "Mollom's World Map of Spam", a live updated map with the locations of the website spammers across the globe. The map shows both the attack frequency per country, and the individual locations of the spammers.Postini has a similar map for email spam sources.

an excellent tip for gmail users !!

Apparently 30% of the spam we receive is sent by our colleagues and business contacts. It seems that re-educating ourselves and our colleagues, and perhaps evolving an internal business ethic towards the productive use of email at work may be the solution here. Afterall, it may save us $650 billion annually.

ore than 30 million users have been infected by a new wave of fake anti-virus programs

Melbourne, Oct 16 (PTI) A Queensland-based man is being suspected as a mastermind behind largest spam operation in the world, responsible for sending out billions of unsolicited emails in recent years, according to a media report here.

Hier wird erklärt, wie man eine zu Unrecht als Spam markierte Email aus der Spam-Quarantäne von AMaVis wiederherstellt.

American investigators have shut down an international criminal network they claim is responsible for up to a third of all spam emails on the internet.