Archive for the 'Issues and Solutions' Category

Alert: “CNN Daily” spam

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Here’s a great article explaining what’s behind the “Daily Top 10″ spams going around. The basic bits of the article are that if you click on anything, it will try to load a fake Flash player. It is Windows-only, but will invade and “phone home” to install more malware from the originating server.
Massive faux-CNN spam [...]

I’m Hit! Spam E-Mail Bomb Explodes.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

This morning I fell victim to what has become a very common spam technique. I open my Mail this morning and have 248 message coming my way with subjects like “mail delivery failed” or “return mail: see transcript” or “undelivered: free porn”.
Yes, somehow, somewhere, someone used my email address …

SMTP Server Setup and Troubleshooting

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

If you have a POP account setup through Dogbark for your hosting account you’ll be able to send mail through our outgoing mail server. This will allow you to send mail through your email client at almost any location and will prevent you from needing to use a limited interface like webmail when you are [...]

Possible cell phone email solution

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Momail has been around a little while in Europe, and is launching beta testing in other countries, including the US. Their free service is touted to provide spam filtering and virus protection, as well as aggregating all email accounts you have into an easy-to-access-on-phone system. I’ve applied for a beta account, and will be blogging [...]

Mailer Delivery System Spam

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

If you are anything like the rest of us you feel like somebody has hijacked your email account, or somehow broken into your computer and started sending spam to the whole word. You look in your inbox and you have 100 “mailer deliver system” errors or the dreaded “Mailer-Daemon” messages. If this sounds anything like [...]