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"The purpose of Spamicide is to prevent spam submission to any form on your Drupal web site. Spamicide adds an input field to each form then hides it with css, when spam bots fill in the field the form is discarded. The field, and matching .css file, are named in such a way as to not let on that it is a spam defeating device, and can be set by admins to almost anything they like(machine readable please). If logging is set, the log will show if and when a particular form has been compromised, and the admin can change the form's field name (and corresponding .css file) to something else."

My experience shows that a lot of con emails come from Senegal. If you maintain a forum or some kind of social network website, you might want to consider to block users from Senegal IPs. Here's a PHP code snippet with the current IP ranges assgined to Senegal ISPs, etc.

Now this is something. A linux based security suite integrated into an USB stick! It works by installing a low-level driver into the PC's OS (of course this is a Windows only stuff ) and redirecting all network traffic through this driver, which filters the data through the appliance's security mechanisms. They say that this unit provides an all-in-one solution: firewall, spam-filter, anti-virus, bla-bla-bla ... Actually the only problem with this is that the whole stuff is only as secure as the Windows (driver) architecture allows. And I don't trust that too much. :-> I'm not naive: most probably Mac OS X is not much safer from a technical POV, but it's got a lot smaller user base and thus is a less attacked platform. And on the other hand, it's working a lot better and that's a significant aspect from a user's POV.