News
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...
Continue Reading
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...
Continue Reading
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,...
Continue Reading
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...
Continue Reading
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...
Continue Reading
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 ReadingNational Geographic Society in the Spam business?
Among the top 10 spam-sending networks today - the National Geographic Society.
That's according to statistics collected and reported by the IronPort Security Network in their Top...
Continue ReadingOnline Video - The Beginning of A Series
We've been producing online video for more than a decade - and it's so nice that it's finally widely accessible. That wasn't the case before, when you had to be a techno sleuth and...
Continue ReadingTelefonica del Peru the current Spammer Of The Day
A month after receiving a US$60,000 fine from Peru's telecom oversight agency for lousy customer service, Telefonica del Peru has won bragging rights as the top source of email spam in...
Continue ReadingCanadian Writers Boycotting Transcontinental Over "Your base are belong to us" Contract
Canadian Living, More, Elle Canada, Homemakers, Vancouver Magazine...publications in the Transcontinental stable that are part of the target of a dozen writers' groups thanks to a new...
Continue ReadingCanadian Pharmacy Spammer Now Abusing Wordpress
The spelling and grammatically challenged criminals who keep pelting us with they spam for pharma kou ceuticals have adopted a new tactic: pointing their spam email messages to free...
Continue ReadingAlan Ralsky 'spam king' sentencing - November, 23 2009
Alan Ralsky, described as the top of a pyramid of co-conspirators who used tens of millions of junk emails to bilk Internet users of tens of millions of dollars, will be sentenced on...
Continue Reading
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
Linux and Windows web hosting plans start at just $7.95/mo.