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Only four days after escaping from a federal minimum-security prison in Florence, Colorado “Spam King” Eddie Davidson, 35, killed his wife, baby daughter and finally himself.

Davidson shot and killed his wife in her former home in Bennett, Colorado along with his three-year-old daughter. Davidson’s 14-year old daughter was wounded in the neck but was able […]

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By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - It would seem that NebuAd, the behavioral targeted advertising protocol used by some Internet Service Providers, is basically like a version of Gator that works at the ISP level. For those of you too young to remember, Gator is one of the frontrunners of spyware/adware distribution a few years ago. Their program came bundled in with programs such as download managers and configuration tweakers, and tracked your surfing and browsing patterns so that it can serve targeted advertisements. The company later changed its name from Gator to Claria in order to get rid of their negative image as spyware distributors.

NebuAd is currently under heavy criticism after being revealed to use TCP/IP packet monitoring in order to intercept, modify and alter contents of Internet packets that are being sent and received while consumers are surfing. NebuAd’s sophisticated deep packet inspection capabilities and the fact that consumers are not made aware of its capabilities or even its existence makes it no less than a spyware or malware program.

Despite a number of spyware companies in proliferation, the real piece of information that ties NebuAd with Gator is the leaked information that both Claria and NebuAd share at least 5 VP-level ranking employees.

NebuAd has not denied the presence of said former Claria employees but tried to downplay the involvement by claiming that the two company’s connections are tenuous at best. People are even more suspicious after finding out that NebuAd, like Claria, is based in Redwood City, CA and has registered its domain in June 2006, the exact same month and year when Claria left the adware business. - www.spywarenews.org

By Spyware News - According to a recent press release by Zango, the famous adware company has recently terminated the employment of 68 out of the 200 plus people that comprise its total workforce. The lay offs were done as a means to streamline and narrow the company’s goals and focus, hot on the heels of the launch of their new Platrium offering, which is a casual gaming site that entered beta just last month.

Zango spokesperson Steve Stratz has denied rumors that the lay offs were a result of Zango going bankrupt, after their services were met with hostilities, particularly from anti-spyware activists who complain that Zango’s obstrusive pop-up serving software were popping up in computers of people who did not volunteer to download it. Additionally, just last year Zango has agree to pay $3 million in order to settle an FTC complaint pertaining to improper or dishonest installations. Another outcome of the fiasco is that Zango has been mandated by state laws to make sure that their software will not be installed without making sure that people have consented, and that they will closely monitor third party distributors in case they try to install the software discreetly.

Platrium, while still an ad server, works on a different way by making free games available to users who install their toolbar. Zango has stated that Platrium is 100% free of pop-up ads, and will instead use a custom “slider” ad, similar to an instant message notification both in terms of size and delivery mode. - www.spywarenews.org

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By Spyware News www.spywarenews.org - A couple of teens from Tesoro High School in Orange County, California, are being charged with multiple felony charges after being caught of hacking into their school’s computer network in order to infect it with spyware designed to monitor and change their grades.

The teachers at Tesoro High School started to suspect foul play when they noticed that the two 18-year old high school hackers, Tanvir Singh and Omar Khan have unusually high grades that conflicted with their actual classroom performance.

According to official police reports, Khan and Singh conspired and plotted their theft and hacking activities as far back as January of this year. Concurrently, Khan himself broke into the school on several occasions and has stolen the school’s master key, which he then used to gain easier access to the school facilities. He then stole his teacher’s login and passwords and used it to alter his and Singh’s grades, along with 12 other students.

Tanvir Singh is now facing four counts of felony, which consists of burglary, conspiracy, computer fraud, and altering public record. If found guilty, the 18-year old Singh could be sentenced to a three year prison term. On the other hand, Omar Khan, who is currently being held on a $50,000 bail, could be sentenced to as much as 38 years in prison, due to the severity of the felonies that he committed.

This news was both unexpected and tragic for the relatives and friends of the two teenagers, since both would have graduated from Tesoro High last June 18 if the debacle did not happen. - www.spywarenews.org

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For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end. Let’s take a simple case study. ntoolz.net has been copying my posts with an automated content creation tool and then blessing me […]

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For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end. Let’s take a simple case study. ntoolz.net has been copying my posts with an automated content creation tool and then blessing me […]

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5 Ways To Block A Spammer & Splogger By IP Address From WordPress Blogs

For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end. Let’s take a simple case study. ntoolz.net has been copying my posts with an automated content creation tool and then blessing me […]

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5 Ways To Block A Spammer & Splogger By IP Address From WordPress Blogs

For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end. Let’s take a simple case study. ntoolz.net has been copying my posts with an automated content creation tool and then blessing me […]

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For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end. Let’s take a simple case study. ntoolz.net has been copying my posts with an automated content creation tool and then blessing me […]

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5 Ways To Block A Spammer & Splogger By IP Address From WordPress Blogs

For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end. Let’s take a simple case study. ntoolz.net has been copying my posts with an automated content creation tool and then blessing me […]

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