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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 ReadingAgain with the TJ's coverage of FibreOp…
The headline:
"Meeting customer demands"
The sub-head:
"Telecom as cell phones become more prevalent and landlines obsolete, Bell aliant (sic) is moving in the right direction,...
Continue ReadingBell Aliant fibre to the home/office project - TJ gets it wrong again
Ah, the Telegraph Journal. It's been a hard week for them with the editor fired and the publisher suspended - by his father, no less - for some creative editing that resulted in an...
Continue ReadingIrving Newspaper apologizes to Prime Minster Harper: Oops. We made it up.
This has all the hallmarks of a darkly modern divine comedy.
We have a former Governor General - the late Romeo LeBlanc - laid to rest in his small home town in New Brunswick...
Continue ReadingThe Pharamaceutical Spammer - interview by forum
It wasn't easy registering for the Westhost forums (westhostspam@oneofourdomains) didn't work, so I was forced to be a bit more creative and circumspect.
And while conducting an...
Continue ReadingOn the trail of an online pharmaceutical spammer
I'm not sure how much info to provide here - since I don't want to tip my hand - so this will be a bit vague for now:
Several months ago, spam started coming in from a pharmaceutical...
Continue ReadingAbusing the Do Not Call List
Despite the hue and cry about telemarketers using Canada's offical Do Not Call List as a source of valid names and phone numbers (CBC story), my home number is on the list.
But that...
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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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