Category: Tech

  • More Spam Stats

    For December: Good: 1,573 Spam: 15,963 Total: 17,536 (566/day) For 2005 Good: 19,889 Spam: 129,505 Total: 149,394 (409/day) Figures do not include UChicago, Yahoo!, or gMail messages. That’s just wrong.

  • E-mail Insanity

    Message count for the 24-hour period ending 12:15 AM, 12/14/05: Legitimate messages: 70 Spam messages: 607 Total messages: 677 That’s ridiculous. Thank goodness for filters. EDIT: Totals for the month of December, to date: 654 legitimate messages and 6,957 spams, or 7,611 total messages. That comes out to 585.5 messages per day. The above totals…

  • Study: 1 in 4 targeted in phishing scams – Dec 7, 2005

    The study is discussed on CNN.com. I would have thought the number would be more like 4 in 4. The 70% success rate of phishing messages is even more disturbing. Granted, phishing attacks have gotten a lot more sophisticated, but still; people shouldn’t get online and conduct sensitive transactions if they don’t know how to…

  • IM Swarms

    There’s some sort of mass psychology at work, here: I’ll be sitting at home, trying to read a couple more pages for school before crashing for the night, and it starts. I get an IM, and thirty seconds later, another, from a second person. Then, yet another person IMs me, seconds after that. It happens…

  • Windows XP Pro SP2 Hibernation Problems (Update)

    I’ve mentioned before the nasty problem of having “too much” memory, when running a Windows XP laptop. Well, I finally gave up and pulled 512 MB out of mine, at least for the moment. I had resolved to install Linux, but realized there are, indeed, a few programs I still care about but hadn’t found…