This article really says it all about virus alerts coming from email gateways. After blocking a flood of Mydoom e-mails, it spams users with alerts that create a general panic. That’s true even in small offices. You’ve got other email gateways sending back virus warnings in response to emails with spoofed “from” addresses as well…
So Angela’s parents were staying with us this weekend, and her dad brought his Palm with him. Now, ordinarily he uses this to sync notes and other things and he hasn’t, in the short time he’s had this one, made any attempts to use the built-in wireless. Since we have wireless running around the house,…
Andy, in the comments on those Postini posts I made late last week, asked about false negatives, email that got blocked as spam but really wasn’t. I told him that since I don’t use my email account to get newsletters or other “bulk” type emails, my account may not be the best measurement of how…
My pics from DC are up you can see them here. Some of you may have noticed that tomorow is my wife’s birthday. Since she gets up earlier than I do to head out to work in the morning, I’m posting this tonight so she’ll see it in the morning. I hope you have a…
Just a link for my wife that I spotted over at Scoble’s today, about the changing world of PR in respect to blogs. In fact, I think maybe she should be reading that blog on a regular basis, being the PR person that she is. 🙂
One nice thing that I think is going to come out of using Postini here at work is that people are going to see just how much spam they actually get! Recently, some of my users have been complaining, rather loudly, about the amount of spam hitting their inbox, and complaining that our ISP must…