By Harish Chib

"They are at it again. Although they are big troublemakers for anyone in my profession, I have started to appreciate the perseverance and diligence of spamsters, albeit at creating trouble in the cyberspace.

This time around spamsters have come up with a new spam tactic using hyperlinks to Macromedia Flash (.swf) files that automatically redirect to a spammer site. In the initial outbreak, the spammer site was of the ""Canadian Pharmacy"" type. However, ....

Spam Filtering and Antispam Appliance

By Harish Chib

"I call them the 'Internet parasites' constantly multiplying in numbers and infecting whoever and whatever crosses their paths. I am talking about the Internet zombies. Not 1 or 2 in number, there are 10 million zombies out there, sending spam and email based malware everyday!

In their latest exploits, zombies victimized new user groups. They targeted the ISPs to misuse their vast client ba....