SpamAnti.net in July 2005

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Biggest Russian spammer assassinated

Vardan Kushnir, known for having sent SPAM to each and every Russian citizen holding an email address, was found dead in his Moscow flat on 24 July.

Death - apparently - was caused by repeated blows to the head. It is not known yet whether his spamming activities and possible relations with Russian mob played a role in the circumstances of his premature death.

Source: MosNews.com

Microsoft AntiSpyware influenced by internal investments

I had announced (see lower) that Microsoft was about to buyout Claria (one of the worst spyware producers). Two disturbing news:

• Price seems to be going up to 500M$ (where did they find such an overblown value?)
• Worse than everything else: The Microsoft AntiSpyware beta software now decided to downgrade its evaluation of the risk of some spywares (including GAIN from Claria). Obviously, Microsoft's Trustworthy computing is immediately going down the drain when their investments may suffer from it.

We could think that Microsoft was truly improving now. We're back to the bad old Microsoft. Thanks, but no thanks!

TheRegister

China against SPAM

Beijing just signed an international pact where the capital of the second country (by the number of SPAMs) declares itself willing to actively fight SPAM: The London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration.

This is the organisation/treaty behind more than 300 investigations and the Spam Zombies operation last year. This is excellent news.

TheRegister

Claria (formerly Gator) would be about to be grabbed by Microsoft

Hard to tell where this will lead, but it seems Microsoft is about to cough 200M$ for a company who shone (darkly) under the name of Gator (author of spywares and outrageously invasive advertisment).

TheRegister

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My other web site

This is not about SPAM, but I am proud of the new look of my other web site: http://www.roumazeilles.net/.

Some older news archived at SpamAnti.net