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Problems with Microsoft’s Hopelessly Inept Spam Filtering - UPDATED 2021-11-01
Last week we started receiving reports from customers that Microsoft is rejecting all EMail from our servers. We are aware of the issue and, while we regularly monitor spam...
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Aliant/CloudMark EMail issue - RESOLVED - UPDATED 2020-10-29
UPDATE 2020-11-17
Both Aliant and CloudMark have continued to ignore our repeated requests to provide any valid reason for why they blocked all mail from our server for almost...
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SSL & Google Chrome “Not Secure” Warnings
Google announced some time ago that their Chrome web browser would begin showing a \"Not Secure\" notice in the address bar, when viewing any site that doesn't use an encrypted,...
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GMail Filters Flagging Legitimate EMails as “Dangerous”
For more than six months now, since Novembe 2019, GMail has repeatedly been blocking legitimate EMails from us, and consistently ignoring all of our requests that they fix the...
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Google Knowingly Distributing Malware AGAIN - 7 days (and counting)
In the past, we've written about a previous incident where we noticed malicious files that were being hosted on Google drive, and distributed via links in spam EMails...
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Wrong Website and/or Company
If you've been sent to this page, it's because you sent us a message intended for a different company - most likely Smarty Plus or Smarty Pants Vitamins.
We have NO...
Continue ReadingUsing Your Domain Name with Dynamic DNS
Dynamic DNS is a fairly simple idea that's been around for some time & it allows people to run publicly-accessible network servers without the need for a static IP. This has many...
Continue ReadingiPad2 - Two Years On
Product reviews are generally all about being the first out of the gate or second-wave expansions of detail and insight. But it's also worth looking at products after they have some...
Continue ReadingAn open letter to comment spammers
To the brain donors posting comment spam from the IP addresses 217.164.214.91, 110.206.98.78, and 116.54.231.5:
Would you like to know one of the best ways to get someone to dedicate...
Continue ReadingThe Need for Dark and Quiet Spaces
When I first spent a night at the beach house (mid December), it came as a surprise that the house was in a digital blank spot: neither Internet nor cellphone connectivity. Sure, I...
Continue ReadingConstant Contact IP Ranges 208.75.123.0 - 208.75.123.255
In an earlier post, I mused about finding the list of IP addresses that bulk emailer Constant Contact uses to send out their email messages. So today, I went looking.
Among the first...
Continue ReadingDigiweb Ireland Keeps Bank Phisher Online
Three days after we reported to Digiweb.ie that an apparently abandoned web site they host (AskGareth.com) is home to at least three infected directories being used in a global...
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Problems with Microsoft’s Hopelessly Inept Spam Filtering - UPDATED 2021-11-01
Aliant/CloudMark EMail issue - RESOLVED - UPDATED 2020-10-29
SSL & Google Chrome “Not Secure” Warnings
GMail Filters Flagging Legitimate EMails as “Dangerous”
Google Knowingly Distributing Malware AGAIN - 7 days (and counting)
Wrong Website and/or Company
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