Peter Vatistas

For the last week I have been getting flooding with emails from CNN and since yesterday MSNBC. Obviously these are new spam campaigns geared to trick people. I recommend deleting these emails immediately and I can confidently say the by next week it will be another news site, probably the BBC.

What you don’t want to do is click on any of these email to unsubscribe. By clicking unsubscribe you are notifying the spammer that you have a valid email account (and your dumb enough to click their spam) and you can bet your ass you’ll be seeing a lot more spam from now on. I’ve heard that there are viruses attached to these emails, I haven’t seen any. It may be due to my kick ass Antivirus - Nod32 by Eset. If you’ve noticed any viruses or spyware please let me know.

BTW, I have about 20 different email accounts across all service providers (gmail, msn, yahoo, exchange, etc…) and the only account that blocks all of these emails as well as all spam in general is gmail. I use Google Apps for my main email addy and it rocks, 0 spam in my inbox 100% of the time. If you’re having issues with spam it may be time to either look into gmail or adding a service like Postini to your email account.

Good luck!

I get a lot of emails from people whom want to know which applications I prefer in Windows. Although this is both a loaded question and a very broad one, I will try to answer this the best I can and will definitely update it from time to time.

Favorite FTP Application: WinSCP

Favorite Telnet & SSH Application: PuTTY

Favorite Internet Browser: Firefox 2 & Safari

Favorite Imaging Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Open Source: Gimp

Favorite Instant Messanger: Application: Trillian - Web Based: Meebo

Favorite Text Editor (HTML, CSS, etc): Edit Plus 2

Favorite CD/DVD & ISO Software: MagicISO

Favorite Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2007 - Open Source: Open Office & Star Office

Favorite Compression & Encryption Software: WinRAR

Favorite Blogging Software: Windows Live Writer

Favorite AntiVirus/Malware Software: Eset NOD32

Favorite Email Client: Microsoft Outlook 2007 (for exchange) - Open Source: Mozilla Thunderbird 2

Favorite BitTorrent Application: Azureus

This list is way from a complete one and to be honest I have been moving away from Windows all together and replacing them with Mac’s. Sorry Microsoft guys - I have been bit by the Apple bug. I also have a laptop running Fedora 8 and I’ll make sure I write a favorite’s list for both Apple and Linux soon.