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	Messaging spam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam where the target is instant messaging services.
		The increase in messaging spam may be motivated by its rise in popularity as well as the many steps to crack down on spamming since the late 1990s.
		Windows Messaging spam can be delivered using any NetBIOS port, so to block it at a firewall entails closing down ports 135 through 139, and 445.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Messaging_spam (675 words)

	Spam (electronic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spamming an internet forum is when a user posts something which is off-topic or doesn’t have anything to do with the current subject.
		Spam is frequently used to advertise scams, such as diploma mills, advance fee fraud, pyramid schemes, stock pump-and-dump schemes, and phishing.
		The excessive amount of SPAM in the sketch comes from British rationing in World War II, SPAM was one of the few foods that was not restricted and widely available; so by the time of the sketch, the British were fed up with the luncheon meat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spam_(electronic) (5639 words)

	Link spam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Link spam (also called blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamming or spamdexing that recently became publicized most often when targeting weblogs (or blogs), but also affects wikis (where it is often called wikispam), guestbooks, and online discussion boards.
		Link spamming originally appeared in internet guestbooks, where spammers repeatedly fill a guestbook with links to their own site and no relevant comment to increase search engine rankings.
		Wiki spam sometimes only appears on a wiki's sandbox page, but is often found defacing multiple pages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Link_spam (1188 words)

	Security & InfoCrime Guide: Messaging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Spam is also used because some marketers claim that response rates are significantly higher than those for traditional junk mail (eg 0.5% rather than 0.001%), although such figures are problematical.
		An August 2001 Gallup Poll report indicates that most US email users say that up to 30% of messages they receive are spam; 39% say they receive more than that, including 18% who say that at least half their e-mail is spam.
		In practice many consumers appear to be manually identifying and preemptively deleting spam on the basis of the message title, the sender's email address or even the ccTLD (with the exclusion of much email from Romania or S Korea).
	www.caslon.com.au /securityguide6.htm (2322 words)

	Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam
		The ideal solution would block all comment spam without any inconvenience to legitimate posters; unfortunately, in practice, that's no more possible than it is for a store to prevent every instance of shoplifting with no inconvenience to honest customers.
		A simple, rudimentary form of comment spam involves spammers sitting in front of web browsers, pasting spam into your comment form, and submitting it manually -- in other words, submitting spam the same way legitimate comments are submitted by your readers.
		Or, to defend against spammers who send a flood of spam -- dozens or hundreds of comments in the span of a few minutes -- your comment script could place a limit on the number of comments that can be sent from a single IP address during any given period of time.
	www.sixapart.com /pronet/comment_spam.html (6225 words)

	Messaging Spam Heads For Your PC - Xtremecomputing Forums
		It is thought that "spimmers" have developed the idea because of the attention-grabbing nature of IM, and the increasingly effective spam filters that specialist companies have developed.
		So there are fears that some people may be taken in by the spim messages because they think they are being directed to certain websites by people they know.
		In fact, the messages are generated automatically, in a very similar way to spam.
	www.xtremecomputing.co.uk /forum/showthread.php?p=6305 (505 words)

	Text messaging spam doubles, even as email spam filters grow more effective
		Spam accounts for close to half of all text messages sent to cell phones, a percentage that has more than doubled in just one year, said a text messaging provider Monday.
		The economics of cell phones -- and thus the spam they receive -- is quite different from e-mail, Begert noted.
		"With mobile spam, consumers have to pay for the delivery of annoying, unwanted messages to their personal phone," he said as he made a pitch for his company's services.
	www.newstarget.com /005419.html (551 words)

	Products: Mail & Messaging: Anti-Spam Protection
		Spam is advertising email that you didn't ask for and, more than likely, don't want.
		To deal with new spam attacks, these rules are updated every ten minutes and then transferred to Xtra's mail servers.
		That means every identified spam email will be caught before it arrives in your mailbox.
	xtra.co.nz /products/0,,11192,00.html (414 words)

	PCWorld.com - Spam Slayer: Beware Spam's Siblings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The term is meant to sound like the word spam, and the messages are just as pathetic as junk e-mail.
		Yahoo says IM spam isn't a huge problem for it, but in September the site required all users to update their Yahoo Messenger clients to help can IM spam.
		And you thought the spam in your in-box was all you had to fear.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,113211,00.asp (1128 words)

	Techdirt:Here Comes Text Messaging Spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Update: An organization in the UK is looking for examples of SMS spam in order to compile a database to show to people to convince them that there is a problem.
		SMS spam is horrendous, but sometimes the phone companies send out useful info to you by SMS (such as when you roam to a different country) and then its' OK (I suppose those are easy cases to allow for though)
		The idea of only permitting those in an address book to send messages is interesting, but will not work in many situations (someone calling from a payphone or sending the message via the web -- unless you made them enter their normal number during the course of sending the message).
	www.techdirt.com /articles/20030630/0114232_F.shtml (584 words)

	Unwanted/Unsolicited Email or Spam
		Spam is an electronic version of the junk mail you receive in your letterbox at home.
		Unfortunately it is much harder to prevent spam than using a simple "No Junk Mail Please" sign on your letterbox.
		Everyone who has an email address accessible to the internet is susceptible to spam.
	www.its.monash.edu /messaging/spam/ts-spam.html (133 words)

	ii.com • Reverse Spam Filtering: "Winning Without Fighting" by Nancy McGough
		After years of thinking about, writing about, and filtering messages, I've decided that the best strategy for me is to not filter spam, but instead to filter non-spam and let the dregs, which are often spam, fall through my filters and land in catchall mailboxes.
		Since the non spam messages, if there are any, bubble to the top of the sorted-by-spam-score box, I need to look carefully at only the top of these catchall mailboxes.
		When I find a non-spam message in a catchall box, I “bounce forward” it to one of my magnet-updater email addresses so that my non-spam filters will catch this type of message in the future.
	www.ii.com /internet/messaging/spam (2476 words)

	laura j. rinaldi: Instant Messaging Spam
		they come up with spam for your instant messaging, according to an article in the Feb 6th issue of Silicon Valley Biz Ink.
		For those who don't have a subscritpion, whe this article said was that if you think you can avoid spam by only using IM to communicate, then you may be in for a rude shock.
		Oh no, they are only sent to opt in lists, so it isn't spam then, is it.
	blog.sans-serif.com /2004/02/instant_messagi.html (143 words)

	Anti Spam Filter for Outlook - Outlook Express and Servers - SPAMfighter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		If a SPAMfighter receives a spam mail that is not detected by SPAMfighter, the user reports the spam mail with one click, and it's removed from the rest of the SPAMfighters in seconds.
		If you receive a spam mail that is not detected, click on a single button, and the spam mail is removed from the rest of the 1.026.861 SPAMfighters in 207 countries/areas in seconds.
		There has been an increase in e-mail spam during the past year at Pitt, and only 25 percent of students are...
	www.spamfighter.com (685 words)

	messaging spam - The messaging Spot
		We here at The messaging Spot have found some of the most relevant sites for messaging spam, and have compiled a list of the best messaging spam information sites online.
		Messaging spam is a type of spamming where the target is instant messaging services.
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	www.chinadancer.net /messaging-spam (369 words)

	Email Spam Stop - Messaging RU
		Spamming software is being used to send spam and to block it.
		… Even if you're angered by repeated spam, do not threaten the spammer … are fly-by-night individuals who disregard a simple polite request to stop.
		The hidden dangers of spam: spam has gone from virtually nothing four years ago to a major problem today.
	messaging.ru.com /email-spam-stop.html (600 words)

	ITSS Help - Email & Messaging, Spam Prevention Tips
		Any unwanted message should be forwarded as an attachment to this account.
		To forward as an attachment, right click on the messages icon and select "Forward as Attachment"; using this method ensures that the proper tracking information is included in the report.
		Messages reported to this account will be examined for possible additions to system subject blocks or domain blocks and will be reported to spam blocklists currently used by The Medical College of Georgia Messaging Services.
	www.mcg.edu /itss/Help/email/spamtips.htm (156 words)

	Gordano Tackles Spam in Messaging Update
		With Bayesian filtering, each e-mail message will have a score assigned to it that determines the probability that a message is legitimate or junk.
		Messages with a certain level of probability of being junk can be routed to specific folders, such as the "Quarantine" folder, or deleted.
		An update with new common spam words and phrases is updated every seven days by default, though users can choose to receive them as often as every five minutes.
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1401413,00.asp (881 words)

	PCWorld.com - Privacy Watch: Cut Off Instant Messaging Spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		With spam filters improving, and some Internet providers (as well as the government) taking legal action against spammers, a growing number of junk mailers are turning to instant messaging to get the word out about their sleazy wares.
		Fortunately, all major instant messaging packages let you limit or eliminate spim, but the settings that block it require you to make some trade-offs.
		Messages from people not on your contact list will be blocked.
	www.pcworld.com /howto/article/0,aid,115602,00.asp (666 words)

	The Open Group Messaging Forum - Coping with Spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Unsolicited and unwanted email, spam has become a major impediment to the effectiveness of electronic mail.
		In early 2003, The Messaging Forum issued a call to action to address this issue.
		In July 2003, the Forum brought together a number of companies who are seeking to address Spam in different ways and brought forward the final draft of a Manager's Guide to Coping with Spam.
	www.opengroup.org /messaging/spam (114 words)

	Spam-protected messaging
		The purpose of this function is to encrypt email addresses (see note), thus protecting them from being harvested by "spambots" (automated programs designed by spammers to collect email addresses from websites).
		You will receive a confirmation that your message has been sent; you may then close the window.
		Note that you have the option of sending a copy of the message to yourself.
	www.mcgill.ca /help/webpublishing/system/spam (292 words)

	Phishing, VoIP and spam top 2005 messaging agenda - vnunet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Phishing, regulatory compliance, voice over IP, and spam will be major themes for the messaging industry in 2005, according to analysts' predictions offered today.
		A report by Ferris Research suggests that 90 per cent of all mailboxes experiencing a spam problem will be protected by commercial anti-spam offerings by the end of 2005.
		The tougher regulatory climate is expected to drive an increasing interest in messaging archiving.
	www.vnunet.com /news/1160281 (434 words)

	USA.NET Hosted Email SPAM, Wireless, IM Solutions.
		Spam emails are flagged for user review in or they can be automatically deleted prior to delivery.
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	www.usa.net /solutions/enhanced.html (540 words)

	NASIOC - Popup messaging spam??
		A popup message like you might have sent to freak out your friends on the LAN in college...
		Exploits using server messaging block protocol can do ridiculous things to your machine, this is really nothing.
		The messages are stoppable by a firewall (port 135 spicifically with this program)
	forums.nasioc.com /forums/showthread.php?t=266364 (835 words)

	Looking beyond simple spam filtering
		After years of narrow focus on fighting spam, messaging security vendors are branching out in new directions as corporate customers demand more from them than filtering unwanted e-mail.
		Messaging security vendors face a dilemma; they must stay focused on blocking spam, viruses and other nasty code flooding corporate e-mail streams.
		But as spam and virus blocking become check-list items instead of purchase drivers, vendors looking to stand out are adding new features ranging from encryption and policy enforcement for outbound messages to new product lines that protect communications other than e-mail, such as instant messaging or Web interactions.
	www.networkworld.com /news/2005/101705-email-security.html (1443 words)

	Tech-Knowlogy : Text messaging spam on the way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Spam on wireless phones is widespread in Europe and Asia and reportedly heading here.
		Unlike the free-for-all Internet, wireless carriers are treating their networks like private property and planning to kill off bulk text messages at gateways before they hit customer in-boxes.
		It's wishful thinking to expect that to happen but there must be better ways that ISP's can detect bulk spam attacks and kill them before they get into our mailboxes.
	ej.typepad.com /ej/2003/05/text_messaging_.html (318 words)

	Cell Phones - Text Messaging Spam... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		With the mass of spam we all receive.
		messages from both the web and also from e-mail.
		I received a message today that I know to be generated by a virus.
	www.cell1.org /detail-6150806.html (2121 words)

	Text messaging SPAM - PDAPhoneHome.com
		Their answer was that they try their best to nip SPAM in the bud but suggest that I implement vtext filters (free service) to fully protect myself.
		Under the header: "Block Messages From:", select the desired option for both the "Allow Messages sent from the Web?" and "Allow Messages sent from e-Mail?" fields.
		All my SPAM was in Spanish, perhaps because I'm in San Antonio, and came from HOTMAIL (apparently).
	pdaphonehome.com /forums/showthread.php?threadid=8235 (581 words)

	Anti-Spam Software \| Anti-Spam Appliance \| Proofpoint Messaging Security for the Enterprise
		Get the latest news from the world of anti-spam, anti-virus, messaging security, content security and more.
		Proofpoint has created the industry's most effective enterprise anti-spam and message protection solution available on a hardened, zero-administration appliance.
		Proofpoint provides anti-spam software and email security software solutions for large enterprises to stop spam, protect against email viruses, ensure that outbound email messages comply with both corporate policies and external regulations and prevent leaks of confidential information via email and other network protocols.
	www.proofpoint.com (617 words)

	One2Connect Partners with Gennux to Provide the Solution to Unwanted Electronic Messaging (Spam) to Western Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		One2Connect’s efforts will be focused on the areas which are at the greatest risk of revenue losses due to Unwanted Electronic Messaging (Spam) such as Telecommunication Service Providers, Internet Service Providers, Public and Private Agencies and the End Users.
		They will be requesting assistance from all who are capable of contributing to their mission as well as those in neighboring Countries.
		They are committed to help those within the European Union to free them selves of the financial and emotional burden of the Unwanted Messaging Crisis which we are currently inflicted with.
	ca.prweb.com /releases/2005/1/prweb200427.htm (679 words)

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