KEYLOGGERS PHISHING SPOOFING SNIFFING VIRUS & WORMS TROJANS SPY/AD/MALWARE SPAMMING, FLAMING ETC XSS-CROSS SITE SCRIPTING OTHER Rootkits

Fake e-Mail scams MEET THE HACKERS HACKING MAY DONE OFFLINE BE CAREFUL WITH CTRL+C SECURE YOURSELF:- AT PUBLIC NET CENTERS. IN SOCIAL NETWORKING & IM BY USING SYSTEM SETTINGS TIPS FOR SECURE COMPUTING TOOLS AND SOFTWARES FOR SECURITY

In general spam can be defined as any unsolicited e-mail, usually in the form of advertising for a product or service. Spam wastes an enormous amount of people’s time. Even though you may think an e-mail is spam, you often have to read the first sentence to be sure before deleting it. If you get dozens a day, the time wasted rapidly mounts up. Unfortunately there seem to enough people falling for the offers to make sending spam worthwhile.

In addition to lost time, spam also uses up considerable bandwidth on the Internet. Despite bans, because the Internet is public it’s almost impossible to prevent spam. There are organizations which try to fight spam using various techniques, and filters are available which recognize some spam algorithmically, for example by the subject line or sender. But spammers know all the tricks and are often ahead of the game.

While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, Online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, and file sharing network spam.

Phishing e-mails, Virus hoaxes etc will also come under spam category

Flamewar:-The action of posting angry insulting messages or e-mails this is manly seen in forums and communities (mostly underground in nature)

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