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Many of our users say the accuracy of our spam filter is one of the key reasons they love Gmail. And while we think you should never have to look in your spam folder, we know some of you may want to know why the messages there were marked as spam.

So starting today, we’ll be showing a brief explanation at the top of each of your spam messages. Simply look at any message in your spam folder and now you can find out why it was put there and learn about any potentially harmful content within the message.

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Now that social curation site Pinterest has become the hot-new social thing, with loads of traffic and highly addicted community, it seems to be time for spammers to take advantage of its traffic and intense virality.

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Twitter announced this week that a “parental controls”-type feature is in development. In your feed, you will soon notice an additional flag on Tweets that contain links that may contain content not suitable for the younger Twitter users.

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Compromised Twitter accounts are once again being used by criminals to spam out adverts to unsuspecting users.

In the latest attack, Direct Messages (DMs) have been sent between Twitter users promoting a "make money fast" website.

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Text links are an important factor in today's search engine optimization, and exchanging links with other websites is a good way to get them. However, doing a link exchange with a website that is penalized can have some detrimental results.

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There's a zombie invasion going on - and it could have infiltrated your business, your home office, or even the corner of your bedroom.

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How do I create an account at Mailinator? It's simple, you just send email to it. Temporary accounts are created when email arrives for them. First, you give out the mailinator email address you created, and then you check it. It's that simple.

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Facebook's security team have reason to celebrate as they have claimed another scalp in the ongoing fight against spammers on the social network.

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Apparently, Google integrated its Places offering into Google's regular search back at the end of October, and almost immediately various search engine optimizers (both the "white hats" and the "black hats") almost immediately realized that it was really easy to game the system: you just create a "business" at a fake, but real-sounding, address. Some companies are quite upfront about how to do this:

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McAfee and Cisco have released their detailed cybersecurity reports for the third quarter and there’s good news and bad news. Malware surged in the quarter, but spam eased off a bit.

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In 1978 Gary Thuerk sent the first ever spam email advertising a new range of microcomputers to 400 users of the ARPANET service. In 2010 we’re still looking for a solution to this increasingly frustrating problem, and most of us don’t want to pay.

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Generate an anonymous alias that will forward to your real email address. It will automatically be deleted after either your set time or message limit has been reached

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Create a free disposable email address! It's really easy to use:
Create a new email address on trashmail.net. All mails to this address will be forwarded to your real email address for a number of times you can set up on the following form. When the limit is reached, the Trashmail.net email address will be automatically deleted. All following mails (like spam, newsletter, etc) will be rejected at Trashmail.net.

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This tool analyzes a web page, searching for characteristics that search engines could consider spam. If you don't know what "search engine spamming" means or if you want to know how this tool works, you can read the Spam detector FAQ.

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This test will check a mail server IP address against 147 DNS based email blacklists. (Commonly called Realtime blacklist, DNSBL or RBL).  If your mail server has been blacklisted, some email you send may not be delivered.  Email blacklists are a common way of reducing spam.

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On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT) Project Honey Pot received its billionth email spam message. The message, a picture of which is displayed below, was a United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) phishing scam

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Spam-O-Meter.com is your free source of Spam Statistics and Live Tools to measure the actual amount of spam in the internet. We find our data in various souces in the internet and project it with our spam algorithm to the whole internet.

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