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First there was Sillyspam (search Twitter for #sillyspam) – where we tweet about amusing spam topics and content that we have seen. Then we added “Silly 419” – describing some of the more outlandish attempted fraud emails that we pick up in our labs. And now we add “Sillyspam Websites”.

Spamit is the organization allegedly behind a fair percentage of the worlds pharmacy spam. The closure of Spamit was reported to have taken place around the 27th of September. According to more recent reports the reasons for the sudden “voluntary” closure are related to charges brought against the individuals behind

This is my first blog posting as part of the Commtouch team so it is probably a good idea to introduce myself. My name is Robert Sandilands, I have been involved in the antivirus industry from 1995 and I came to Commtouch through their recently completed acquisition of the antivirus

Commtouch recently exhibited at the 8th German Anti-Spam Summit in Wiesbaden, Germany. The Summit is organized by ECO – the Association of the German Internet Industry. Commtouch is a long-term partner of many leading German service providers and security vendors including 1&1, Intergenia and Astaro.  One of the often-discussed points

Every few months a new piece of cybernasty is unleashed on the world with such effectiveness that even the mainstream press covers the story. This time the darling of the headlines is the “here you have” virus. Well the correct name should really be the “email with ‘here you have’