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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 ReadingA.G. Bell Redux - Fibre to the Home (FTTH)
The best conference I've ever attended was back in the 1980's in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in honour of Alexander Graham Bell, who's famous as the inventor of the telephone yet generally...
Continue ReadingAnother set of spam tracks
The name that keeps showing up in a series of similar domain names / spam is BayViewMarketing. They're supposedly based in Oregon and, while they have various web and mail hosts all...
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Spam today included the following participants (as the source, the website host, the DNS service, or the domain name registration):
Limestone Networks - limestonenetworks.com
Gogax...
Continue ReadingStephen's First Law of Technology Issues
When confronted with malfunctioning technology, the problem with invariably resolve itself exactly 5 seconds after you go to the effort of contacting technical support.
Continue ReadingWho's involved in today's spam?
I periodically report spam using IronPort's Spam Cop site and, in the process, have a look at the spammer's web hosting provider, domain name register, and domain name management. And...
Continue ReadingAs You Post, So Shall You Reap
Last year, I worked on a training project with Canadian ground troops. They were set up in a camp less than a kilometer from what was supposedly a village in some far-0ff land. The...
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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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