Blue Frog/Security is no more. For your safety UNINSTALL the extension(s) as well as the application. An alert reader on Go Firefox!, posted me a link to this Wired News Article: Under Attack, Spam Fighter Folds. Also check out: BlueSecurity, BlueFrog & BlueFreaks That Love Them: Blue Security Surrenders… Spammers Win.

A fellow member on Go Firefox! posted me a link to this article from Wired News today. An anonymous spammer wrote into Wired News claiming to be “one of the spammers behind (the) Blue Security scandal”. There is one paragraph of the article that stands out and shows the effect that the Blue Frog is having on their business. “The point of it is to get Blue Frog software to stop turning its subscribers’ computers into zombies that attack our servers,” the spammer wrote. “If you want to be removed from our mailing list, please opt out first.” If only…

It has been quite a war… PharmaMaster (Russian Spammer) vs The Blue Frog. First they sent tons of spam messages with misleading information, threatening and extorting us Blue Frog Members to remove ourselves from the registry or get tons more spam. They repeated this again and again. Then they really started playing dirty, they sent more spam but disguised it as to look as the messages were from members of Blue Frog. Again, providing misleading information about Blue Security. To further up the ante, launched a denial of service (DoS) attacks against Blue Security sites. Another bombardment of Spam from…

Well the good news it seems Blue Frog/Security’s website is back up, the bad news… Blue Security’s servers are currently under attack. Our staff is working around the clock to restore normal operation as soon as possible. We are extremely happy to see the overwhelming level of support and global presence the Blue Community is showing. Thank you for your patience! We’ll have to wait to see how this plays out in the next couple days. As for my spam count…getting more recycle and future spam on the Yahoo! account, but 99% of it is being caught and deposited into…

As of this evening, Blue Frog/Security’s sites are completely inaccessible, more about this in a bit. Now allow me to back up to last night. A couple things happened that I found odd but would have had no idea they were related: When I went to bluesecurity.com last night it took me to the their blogs site (bluesecurity.blogs.com) Earlier in the evening I was experimenting with Live Journal when that site started becoming very sluggish and some points inaccessible. I was thinking the troubles with Live Journal seemed all too similar to those at Blue Frog/Security, but these could not…

For a brief time last night I was able to access the blogs portion of Blue Security’s site. Here is a portion of their Blog entry for 05/03: The Blue Independence War “Today is Israel’s Independence Day. It’s a public holiday in Israel, but all of us in Blue Security are working. But we are glad we’re working. We’re helping the community fight the Blue Independence War. We fight for our freedom from spammers and cyber criminals. This is our big chance to reclaim the Internet. We must not let it slip from our hands. Some desperate spammers are doing…

Over the past 48 hours there has been a lot of ‘rumors’ and ‘chatter’ that just may be Blue Frog croaked and that the Do Not Intrude Registry database has been compromised. Their web site has been inaccessible since May 1st due to various DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. On to top of that, apparently a desperate group of spammers are claiming they sent out this message to ALL the registered users of Blue Frog on May 1st: Hey, You are recieving this email because you are a member of BlueSecurity (http://www.bluesecurity.com). You signed up because you were expecting to…

A while back on the Go Firefox! Forum, the humble Guru was asked about Blue Frog Anti Spam extension and software. The extension and software (about 4 MB) are suppose to reduce the amount of Spam you get by making spammers remove all Blue Community members from their mailing lists. The software will automatically run in the background when you access your web e-mail accounts (Yahoo!, G-Mail, Hotmail, etc) and go through your junk/bulk folder and report the spam. For Desktop mail clients (Thunderbird, Outlook, Eudora, etc.) you will need to forward the messages directly to a special address you…