Strangest Spam Ever
I’ve been kept rather busy as of late and have not been able to keep very up to date with this blog. However, I checked up on it today and noticed what appears to be the strangest comment spam I’ve ever gotten. In a nutshell, on one of my past posts that talk about email security, there are a couple of comments hailing the security and reliability of Microsoft Outlook Express.
The reason this is interesting is because they are clearly spam messages. I have to wonder, then, why spammers would want to leave comments raving about how secure Outlook is. The thing is, Outlook (and especially Outlook Express) is one of the most unsafe pieces of software you can have on your computer. In my experience cleaning and repairing other people’s computers, more viruses and other computer nasties arrive on a machine via Microsoft Outlook than any other program.
So why are spammers hailing the security of this program? Are they trying to get people to use it? Do they think people will switch their email program because they saw some comment on a blog somewhere?
Strangest. Spam. Ever.
My name is
Since you mentioned those comments, it would have been “helpful” to read what they say. I don’t know if you kept them, if you did, a link (sounds familiar, Linkboy?) would do nicely. I think that you may have interpreted them to subjectively, and I would have loved to have a crack at understanding why, and if at al. As for how safe or unsafe these are, don’t forget the sheer number of users, which makes them a fabulous target… I would not be surprised to realize that precentage wise, (Number of breaches divided by the number of users) outlook is no less safe than other mail clients…
Nick Moscovitz
31 May 05 at 3:15 PM
That’s not true; Outlook is less safe than other mail clients.
It was spam. Spam does not deserve to live. Thus, I have killed it.
Meitar
31 May 05 at 10:07 PM