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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 ReadingRevealing Glimpse Under the Hood of a Broken Comment Spam Bot
Earlier today, the Smartypants blog received yet another "faux-praise" spam comment - one of those comments that attempt to look legit, but are still obvious spam because of how...
Continue ReadingWhat, Me Retire? As If
A year ago, I woke to a fiddler playing 'When I'm 64"...a poignant and funny start to that birthday orchestrated by my funny and poignant wife.
Tomorrow, that song becomes past tense...
Continue ReadingCanadian Subsidy Directory Spammer Back for Yet Another Year
Do you have a hankering to pay for information that you can receive absolutely free online? Then you’re the kind of sucker the Canadian Subsidy Directory is looking...
Continue ReadingDon't hang up on the telemarketing Captain - Keep him on the phone as long as you can
Getting telemarketing calls from the Captain, from the fake Windows security experts who've tracked a virus to my computer, for whatever...the worst thing you can possibly do is hang...
Continue ReadingSocial Media is all about sharing - but how sharing are we?
Yes, you can share my obsession with cats (which I just made up), what I had for lunch including fuzzy fotos, why I loved the great new episode of Whatever IV, me joining the slag of a...
Continue ReadingGoogle Plays "Hide the Free Version" with Apps for Domains
A few years back, Google introduced a free service called "GMail for Domains" - in a nutshell, it allowed domain name owners to use the GMail service for their domain's EMail accounts....
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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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