There's nothing like checking your email and seeing that it's full of messages from people you don't know that you didn't ask for. No, you don't want to buy dog food, beauty products, diet pills, plants, or software. Still, you keep getting these...
Remember when spam was just another disgusting thing you would never eat? Then you got older, and the words to a great Monty Python song became "spam." Now, spam is something you should never do. Or, in the case of spam-blocking programmes that...
Who did the cooking!? (Where did everything start?)
The current meaning of the word "spam" has nothing to do with ham that has been spiced. In the early 1990s, people used the word because of a skit by the British comedy group Monty...
It's been almost a decade since spammers and the people who try to stop them started to change in a competitive way. As with the classic "cheetah and gazelle" model, which Darwin came up with, every time one group gets a little faster or more...
We've all had to deal with spam emails that are annoying and sometimes dangerous. Still, most of us do. There are great anti-spam tools on the market, so there's no reason to keep putting up with this.
Before we can figure out the answer,...
If you run a business and use email, spam will be a big problem for you. How you handle it can make a big difference in how well your workers do their jobs. Spam email has always been a bother, and it has gotten worse over the last few years....
A link farm is a group of sites that link to other sites in order to boost the link popularity of those sites. This is when a website gets links from a lot of different sites that have nothing to do with it. This is called spamming, and a search...
Understanding computers and how to protect yourself from identity theft
Over a billion people around the world can now find information quickly thanks to the Internet. As a person connects to more computers, companies, and other people...
Spam has to be one of the most annoying things on the Internet right now. When pop-ups were first introduced, every website I went to was full of them. I hated them, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. Spam sent out so many copies of the same...
Spam has probably happened to everyone who uses the internet at some point or another. At first, they are easy to ignore for people who know how to use the internet. However, for people who have never used the internet before, the messages can be...