test please delete

[NickFitz]

Jesus Fscking H Christ Almighty the Third, it's cold out there <- hypothermia smiley

(Although, having once almost died of hypothermia myself, I'm still not sure that it looks like that - but it's close )

Anyway, it's sodding cold out there

[NickFitz]

Has anybody else noticed a major influx of spam of various kinds this week? There's always some of it about, but since Sunday I've noticed several trends:

• Initially, a lot of phishing email spam aimed at Lloyds TSB customers;
• At the same time, a sudden increase of spam posts to my blog which SpamKarma was sufficiently uncertain about to notify me of (whilst still holding them back as probable spam);
• A switch of the email spam to phishing for Abbey National customers.

I'm curious because of the coincidence of a sudden influx of email spam that gets past my email filters (sometimes), at the same time as blog comment spam that challenges my blog filters.

I think a new spambot may be at work. Perhaps the previously-reported inactivity of well-known spambots was, indeed, the lull before the storm, and now a new spambot family is launching multiple attacks on all fronts - it's certainly the first time I've seen a phishing email storm coincide with a blog comment storm, and I look out for this crap


(I keep all my spam for research purposes - I have never deleted an email. I've lost quite a few through failing to make regular backups though... but at the moment I have every bit of spam I've received since August 2006, on two separate domains, sitting on my lap )

[NickFitz]

I fancy a banana

Aww, aren't they wonderful: joyous, happy little things - let's have some more

[alreadypacked]

BrilloPad 16,207
zeitghost 14,001
Diver 10,867
cailin maith 10,216
DS23 10,001
BrowneIssue 8,564
TheFaQQer 7,959
NickFitz 7,418
FiveTimes 6,124
Bear 5,127
Fortune Green 2,215
DiscoStu 2,166
Jog On 2,165
El_Diablo 1,812
voodooflux 1,611

I seem to have dropped off the list

[NickFitz]

Night then folks

Oh, all right, one more:



Now go to sleep

[NickFitz]

I seem to have dropped off the list

Hi AP - you latecomer, you

You're here:

alreadypacked 300

Hope things are good with you - I'm just crashing, but you're on an even 300, which is probably a good sign in some way

See you soon

[Diver]

Morning all

[BrilloPad]

Has anybody else noticed a major influx of spam of various kinds this week? There's always some of it about, but since Sunday I've noticed several trends:

• Initially, a lot of phishing email spam aimed at Lloyds TSB customers;
• At the same time, a sudden increase of spam posts to my blog which SpamKarma was sufficiently uncertain about to notify me of (whilst still holding them back as probable spam);
• A switch of the email spam to phishing for Abbey National customers.

I'm curious because of the coincidence of a sudden influx of email spam that gets past my email filters (sometimes), at the same time as blog comment spam that challenges my blog filters.

I think a new spambot may be at work. Perhaps the previously-reported inactivity of well-known spambots was, indeed, the lull before the storm, and now a new spambot family is launching multiple attacks on all fronts - it's certainly the first time I've seen a phishing email storm coincide with a blog comment storm, and I look out for this crap


(I keep all my spam for research purposes - I have never deleted an email. I've lost quite a few through failing to make regular backups though... but at the moment I have every bit of spam I've received since August 2006, on two separate domains, sitting on my lap )

Odd - I was thinking the same thing last night! Does that make me a ?

Think I shall look up some sorting algorithms - back later....

[BrilloPad]

Morning all

Morning Diver

How are you?

How is the job hunt?

[BrilloPad]

I seem to have dropped off the list

Then you need to drivel more!! If I listed all the minor drivellers it would take ages!

I usually try to include all those with more than 1000 - though I am tempted to include HC who is doing sterling drivelling at the moment.....