Viagra Spam Targets Twitter Users
Due to the huge amounts of spam being sent out lately, and the “smarter” spam filters employed by most, if not all, email service providers, email spam started to get less effective for its operators. That’s why spammers are always seeking and trying new methods to deliver their unsolicited messages to naive-enough users who would fall for whatever the spammer is offering. Social networking sites are becoming more trendy and popular, and such sites have started attracting the interest and focus of many spammers and scammers.
Recently, a blast of Viagra spam messages targeted Twitter users who received “get bigger and last longer” offers with a link to a “pharmacy” site selling herbal/fake Viagra. The spam messages were sent out from other compromised Twitter accounts that belong to innocent users. Twitter has warned its users about this issue and urged those of possibly-hacked accounts to change their password immediately.
Viagra spam has always been a huge problem and source of concern to end users (who get lots of annoying pill ads), website owners (who get hit by spammers), manufacturers of authentic medications like Pfizer (Viagra maker), and health authorities. As long as Viagra sells, spammers will try to do anything to push it to as many potential online customers as possible. So, educating Internet users and consumers about the dangers of spam would (in my opinion) be a better investment than trying to put roadblocks in the spammers’ way, because they can always find one byway or another.
Pfizer to Launch an Over-The-Counter Version of Viagra
Viagra developer and manufacturer, Pfizer Inc, is planning on launching a new, non-prescription version of its blockbuster anti-impotence drug, Viagra (sildenafil citrate). The new medicine, which does not have a name yet, is expected to be available in 2011. This new product comes just in the perfect time, since Pfizer’s U.S. patent on Viagra expires in 2012, after which the “much cheaper” generic versions of Viagra are expected to take over.
The new product contains revised ingredients (some of which are also found in Viagra) that make it safe and available for use without a prescription, i.e. anyone will be able to buy it over the counter without seeing a doctor.
Pfizer has always been trying to make their in-demand ED drug as easily obtainable as possible, even if it was at the expense of the patient’s health. In fact, Pfizer has already sought to make Viagra available over the counter in Europe in 2007. However, they withdrew the application after the European Medicines Agency objected to the bid due to the potential health risks of Viagra, and to prevent increased misuse of this medication.
So, will this new ED treatment replace Viagra? Well, it will all come down to results. Even though OTC drugs are generally less effective than prescription-only ones, Pfizer may be cooking some “big” surprises in this new product. We will be following and posting updates on this story.
Hitler Took Custom Made Viagra Injections
A new book about the health of Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, reveals that Hitler took a special form of Viagra to keep up with his mistress, Eva Braun, who was 23 years younger than him.
The claim is based on medical archives and papers from Hitler’s personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell, who was well-known for his controversial and quirky treatments.
The papers revealed that Morell prepared an energy-boosting “medicine” that contained testosterone and a mix of young bulls’ semen and prostate glands. Morell gave this “Viagra” to Hitler as an injection, like he preferred to take most of his medications, because Hitler was afraid of pills. Who wants to take a pill that has bull semen in it, anyway? Yuck!
Testosterone supplements are used nowadays to improve male potency as an alternative to prescription ED drugs, like Viagra (sildenafil citrate) and Cialis (tadalafil). But I am not sure about the bulls’ semen and prostate glands.
Well, at the end of the day, there’s a great woman behind every great man, and a little blue pill in his pocket!