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Pharmaceutical Spammers Targeting LinkedIn
DANCHO DANCHEV's Blog ^ | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2009 | Dancho Danchev

Posted on 02/23/2009 6:16:17 PM PST by Cindy

Following January's malware campaign relying on bogus LinkedIn profiles, this time it's pharmaceutical spammers' turn to target the business-oriented social networking site.

(Excerpt) Read more at ddanchev.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computers; internet; spam; spammers

1 posted on 02/23/2009 6:16:17 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Gawd. My Yahoo acct is FULL of ‘pleasure’ and ‘arousal’ spam! When I click ‘spam’ when I delete...it’s like they multiply like roaches! I’m ditching Yahoo.


2 posted on 02/23/2009 6:28:15 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

You can configure Yahoo’s mail filters to root out spam. It’s very effective actually. I don’t get any spam.


3 posted on 02/23/2009 6:41:08 PM PST by libh8er
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To: libh8er

Wish you could tell me how. I mark the boxes...click ‘spam’....and it still floods my box.


4 posted on 02/23/2009 6:44:25 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Click Options (on extreme right ), then —> Mail Options —>Filters.

Then follow instructions to add new filters.


5 posted on 02/23/2009 6:49:51 PM PST by libh8er
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To: libh8er

TY :)


6 posted on 02/23/2009 6:52:16 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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