Have you tried Pinterest yet? It’s one of the fastest growing social media sites, having reached 10 million users in record time. It’s best described as Twitter, but for pictures. You can “pin” pictures and sites you like to a virtual pinboard, share things you like with others, follow people you like and have others follow you.
Here at SPAMfighter, we love receiving gifts, schwag, and free crap, not only during yuletide, but anytime really. So if you feel inclined, please fell free to send your smartphones, candy, or anything else to our office. It rarely happens, but then yesterday this little gem (below), aptly named "Cairnsmhor Fine Foods Haggis Flavored Handbaked Oatcakes", was sent to us. Yes, you read it right. It seems to be a box containing Haggis flavored cookies. We're not sure what angel sent us the damn thing but we believe it to be a new and advanced physical materialization of spam which will surely cause headaches to the Internet Security business in 2012.
After our ventures into revealing the Whirl Wind Software fake software scam and the Google Earth scam we now turn our attention to another annoyance - the fake job scam. Yesterday SPAMfighter blocked 1.829.860 spam mails with the subject field: "Administrative Sales Support - Virtual Office". Similar subject lines such as, "Current Vacancy", "Working Part Time" and "Get a New Job Today" have been flooding our SPAMfighter spam filters as well.
Warning! This blog post contains some serious bragging, but yes, it's true and remember where you heard it first! Our beloved spam filter SPAMfighter made an appearance on the Atlanta based News outlet CNN on 17. July. CNN often showcases various tech related tips and featured a dialogue on spam and spam filtering on this particular day. Now, that is something we know a thing or two about! The following excerpt is from a conversation between technology expert Marc Saltzman and news anchor Fredericka Whitfield:
Update: Mozilla Thunderbird 9 and 10 support addded - Download SPAMfighter with Mozilla Thunderbird 9 and 10 Support
The latest update to SPAMfighter Pro and Free has included the much requested Thunderbird 5, 6, 7 and 8 support.
Thunderbird is the widely used free email system from Mozilla, (Mozilla also provide the Firefox browser), then non-profit software provider and with the latest release, SPAMfighter Pro and Free now support all versions of Thunderbird except version six, which will be supported in the next release of SPAMfighter Pro.
Support for Thunderbird 5, 6 , 7 and 8, and other mail clients, shows the continued evolution of SPAMfighter Pro to protect users from spam, no matter how they consume their email.
SPAMfighter is proud to support the "spread Thunderbird" initiative, which aims to promote the Thunderbird community in an official capacity.
Download SPAMfighter with Thunderbird 5, 6, 7 and 8 support
Recently, we had the pleasure of studying 5.9 million spam mails sent in July 2011 in the effort to understand which celebrites were the most commonly used as bait by spammers. Using celebrities as bait in spam mails is of course not a new method. In fact, the much covered Anna Kournikova virus spread through spam celebrated a ten years anniversary earlier this year.
Unfortunately, this is a popular tactic for spammers as it seems to be working and the list (below) from our data suggests that spammers not only tend to focus on celebrities that are currently hot in the media but that there are a few usual suspects that are used more frequently. Typically, the celebrity spam mails contain links to malicious sites or sites selling viagra. Claims of "unseen videos" of the celebrity are also very popular among spammers. Here are the results of our findings...
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SPAMfighter has become the number one anti-spam solution in Europe because of our fantastic and supportive user-base, which now runs to over 7 million users and growing, and you can not only trust our technology, you can see that the vast majority of users love SPAMfighter Pro, because, simply put: 7 million people wouldn't use it to protect their inbox day-in, day-out if we weren't doing our job. 
We've seen various subject titles to help you spot this one (just in case you're not using SPAMfighter - though, hey, why wouldn't you?), so far we've seen: 
Now, going for the download a sign up page appears
and, surprise, surprise, a payment page where you are asked for credit card.
Please do not click through the links in these mails pushing Google Earth. Right now they use Osama but next time it will be something else. Google Earth is definately a freebie and the guys behind this scheme have tried this several times. In the mail here they refer to themselves as "Earth Enhancer" but other incarnations like "Earth Team VP" are also used. So hold on to your wallets and go for the free version of Google Earth. 
