The internet has been hailed as a wonderful tool for everyone to be able to express themselves, whether that be for good or for bad. There are plenty of bloggers out there who can write, just as there are plenty who can\’t, but technologies ability to enable everyone with an internet connection to have their […]
Using the Internet to Make a Point – Protest against Telecom\’s XT Read More »
Phishing is all about getting people hooked, line a sinker, this time Amazon is the recipient of the Phishers focus. It seems to be the usual DHL / UPS style scam, where a zip archive is attached to an email that carries the nasty payload. Asking you to print the attached postal label to get
The Phishers / Virus Makers have Hooked Amazon now Read More »
I have used a number of Antivirus programs over the years. I was a big fan of Mcafee back in the DOS days, moved onto Nortons when it came with my PC (Threw it away when it got too bloated). Tried a number of others and then settled on AVG. AVG was great. It was
Avast Antivirus – Wow! Read More »
Well they keep rolling off the spam/scam production line. This one pretends to be an email from mail support of a specific domain. As with all of these mass email scams, they don\’t realise that the person they sent the email to manages all of the mail for that domain (Including the \”support\” that is
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Many times there are things that show the US Centricness (Is that a word?) of the internet: .com readily meaning US site US date formats in online forms USD as the default currency Well another example is the idea that every country must use UPS and DHL for their parcels. Why else would all of
DHL, UPS Virus Email, What Next NZPost? Read More »
I have received a Twitter email saying that: Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset. Please create a new password by opening this link in your browser: Now, funnily enough, I don\’t remember any phishing attempts coming my way, and
Twitter Phishing Problem or Twitter Security Breach? Read More »
Internet Explorer 6 is an old browser, in internet terms it is a dinosaur. Released in 2001, it has been the mainstay of peoples internet experience over the last 9 years. The masses are often reluctant to change unless something pushes them along. Firstly, Firefox gave users a good alternative browser to use (Better in
Is this the needed Push Out the Door for IE6? Read More »
Well as usual, the run up to Christmas was frenetic with lots of things to get done before the break. It has been quiet for the last few days as many clients in this part of the world are either on holiday, or are in the Tourism industry and are working hard during the peak
New Clients for the new year, Welcome! Read More »
Some of the more common recent spam comments posted on this blog and others are obvious spam, but have the added benefit of including jokes. Some are actually ok. Here are a few recent ones… Why did the dinosaur cross the road? Because there were no chickens in those times. What do you get when
Spam is a Great Source of Jokes! Read More »
I have recently moved a site over from an ASP content management system to Joomla. One of the tricky things was creating the redirects for the pages on the old site to the new. Normally this is easy enough when you are redirecting a static page to another static page. Unfortuntely the mod_rewrite in Apache
Great Howto for 301 Redirects for Dynamic URL\’s Read More »
