How many times have you clicked on a link to a news story and then ended up at the brick wall that is the “Register” page? It happens to me all the time.
I’m a regular reader of the Drudge Report, and as most Internet users know, that site contains many links to various news stories […]
When high-speed Internet was introduced in my area about 6 years ago, I was thrilled to finally dump my slow dial-up service. There was one thing, however, that I really missed about my old dial-up service.
I was getting my dial-up service from Earthlink (formerly Mindspring) back then and they had a very nice spam filter […]
I got an e-mail yesterday that was obviously an attempt to infect my PC with something. A few years ago that something would very likely be a run-of-the-mill virus.
These days however, it is more likely to be some kind of trojan program that would allow some hacker somewhere to turn my PC into a spam […]
Maybe you have not noticed an increase in e-mail spam over the last week or two because you get so much of it under normal circumstances, but I can tell you that there has been a virtual storm of e-mail spam going on.
I can always tell when this happens because a few spam messages manage […]
It’s been a while since I have posted any information regarding e-mail scams. Frankly, I just got a bit sick of the same old scams arriving in my inbox all the time and I shut off the e-mail account that was attracting most of it.
Just today one of my other e-mail accounts picked up a […]
Since I have eliminated most of my e-mail addresses that were receiving lots of spam, I was a bit surprised to see a new scam e-mail show up at one of my e-mail addresses.
I have heard about these lottery scams before and have even received a few of them in the past, but this one […]
Despite all the precautions I take here to remain free of the various nasty things roaming around the net, occasionally I end up having to deal with this crap.
This time one of my kids ended up infecting his PC with a ton of ad-ware. It was placing icons on his desktop and popping up various […]
I’ll have to give credit to the spammers and other varieties of internet-dwelling lowlife for one thing: They are a damn creative bunch! They have come up with some absolutely ingenious schemes to keep the money coming in.
It used to be that a virus or worm or other nasty bit of software was released primarily […]
I had heard the stories more than once. Someone who has an internet-based business sets up a newsletter or a mailing list to stay in touch with customers and potential customers via e-mail.
After signing up and agreeing to receive the newsletter or mailing list messages, some clueless AOL user receives an e-mail message just as […]
I am continually amazed at the number of low-life characters that have crawled out from under their rocks to infest the internet with all manners of schemes and scams. I imagine these must be the types of people that would have been pulling telephone scams on old ladies back in the days before the internet.
Beyond […]