An insidious, (relatively) new form of spam exploits a laxly designed aspect of Windows to pop commercial messages onto your screen and make them appear to be system notifications. Details here. It won’t work if you have a properly configured firewall, and you can turn off the “messenger” service that makes it possible pretty easily. Still, it’s a depressing indication that the spammers of the world will dragoon into service any little nook or cranny of your computer’s technology and turn it into a conduit for worthless commercial messages you will never ever respond to. Makes me wanna holler…
Meanwhile, IBM published this paper by David Mertz reviewing and field-testing several different spam-defeating technologies.
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