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Welcome to Jesper Johansson's blog. This is my home for pontification on the web. In case this is your first time here, I have been working on information security for about 20 years, and have been writing and speaking on the topic for about 10. I am also a Microsoft MVP in Windows Security.
My most recent book is the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit . Because I am also a scuba instructor you may find some posts related to that topic as well. Just because it took me so long to get it, I also like to say that I have a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.

What do you think, should I do it?

I get a fair bit of blog spam - comments advertising everything from sexual enhancers to fake anti-malware. This one just came in this morning:

Sweet! I can turn off all the blog spam just by e-mailing the criminals? Or, could it possibly be that this is a clever ruse find out what my e-mail address is so they can send their junk there too? Hmm. I think I'll just forward this to abuse@gmail.com.

Published Sun, Nov 16 2008 8:44 AM by jesper

Filed under: Security Pontification

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# Jeffrey D. Pound, Sr. said on 18 November, 2008 11:05 PM: They'll respond with a HTML document asking for you to pay something (not much) and when you do they capture your financial information.... they installed a bot on you system....
# Susan said on 23 November, 2008 01:06 PM: Just like sometimes I want a rubber car so I can slam on the brakes and bash the car that has been tailgating me for the last hour, I want a fake name, fake SSN, fake credit card number just to follow through on some of these scams just to see how far it would go to follow the money.

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