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Spammers defies Bill Gates ‘magic Solution’

PaulJanuary 22, 2009

Sopho’s published statistics and I thought I would talk about it here. Bill Gates promised to have a Magic Solution 5 Years ago. Sophos Also provide a Chart of the Dirty Dozen:

Sopho’s also is claiming that “US retains its crown as spam king“. I don’t think so because of the the Other 32.4%. The US can’t be the main culprit to spam. So What was this ‘Magic Solution’ that they promised 5 years ago?

Microsoft has two techniques in mind for solving the spam issue, both based on the premise of changing the economics of email to place a greater burden on the sender.

[Via CBR]

Microsoft did have some good ideas but they wouldn’t work for right now because the first part of the ‘magic Solution’ was to add mathmatical question to each and every email we sent out. I know that this wasn’t going to work because hackers have already created a systems to get around the captcha verification.

[ad#ad2-right]Spammers of course are the ones who is sending out the spam but they have people who write virus software, which I consider a hacker. You see they want to infect systems so they can easily send out even more email. When a system becomes a Botnet they usually are used to send out email. If your curious as to what a Botnet is Check out the Wikipedia entry for further details. So they need these systems to be able to send out spam, and other types of email phishing. Most of the time a spammers spam just for money because they make money by spamming people. I hate spam because it clogs up our email accounts with unwanted emails.

So Did Microsoft come up with a fix? According to Sopho’s they seem to be dropping percentages from 2004 to now in the US. I have to wonder if Microsoft proclomation made them worry and go outside of the US. I don’t think it will stop in fact, I suspect with the economy like it is we will undoubtedly start seeing even more spam and even more computer infections.

In order to prevent yourself from viruses and computer infections, you will need to install Anti-virus software and a Good firewall, not just the Default Windows Firewall. This will greatly increase your chances of not getting a virus and possibly help prevent some of the spam. You should also tell your associates or customers the benefits of preventive updates. You should also remind people about not clicking links in emails and also not everything you read is true.

Google SearchWiki dies after two days!!

PaulNovember 22, 2008

According to Techcrunch Google Pulls the Google SearchWiki. Unsure as to way but here’s what they said:

Users are reporting that the recent changes to Google’s search engine, called SearchWiki, have simply disappeared from the site. It’s certainly gone from my account.

[ad#ad2-right]User reactions were mixed but weighted heavily towards “this is lame,” and there was no way to turn off the features other than to conduct Google searches without being logged in. Another way to turn it off was to switch search engines.

[via TechCrunch]

I’ve got my theory on this, and it’s quite a good theory. I think it was a making search results come up wrong or not at all. The last two days they’ve had that going my page views have drop BIG time. According to my Stats I’ve had 236 Unique Visits for Thursday, and 232 Wednesday. My Friday stats show that I only got 185 Unique Visits, dropping 40 to 50 people. My stats for today which is incomplete shows that I’ve only gotten 136 unique visits. Although that is complete you can see where I dropped drastically. I think Google was getting yelled at by websites due to the stats dropping. I am guessing people could tell if they wanted to go to a site just by reading the comments. This will hurt every site, including TechCrunch. I will say this is only a theory and this might or might not be the case.

This however is the best possible explanation that I could come up with. Do you know why they did that? I don’t know?

Google Creates the ultimate Search Wiki!!

PaulNovember 21, 2008

Google has started to do let people rate the searches and help find the better articles. Google is calling it Searchwiki. Here is a screen shot:

[ad#ad2-left]You can now help judge and rate search results. You can also X out the ones that are not right. I am going to play around with this even more. It started out on Google Trends and Now people are all wanting to know more about this. This could help my site even more. I want to know what others are thinking about this? Is this Good or can this be good for the spammers? You decide.

Some other Websites talking about this are:

TechCrunch

Wall Street Journal

ZDNet

These are just a few but I wanted to let you see what other websites are talking about this new feature. I do want to hear what you think about all this and what is likely to come later on?