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Home 22 Jan 2012 No, I'm not offering to tune your spam filters for free Email Fortinet is a security appliance company in California. One of the services they offer to their thousands of customers is spam filtering, nothing odd about that. But I was rather startled to see this block at the top of an otherwise ordinary Russian language spam that arrived here from a poorly secured mail server in Malaysia See more ... posted at: 20:28 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/fortigard.trackback 08 Jan 2012 Reset, Refresh, Reinfect? Internet The upcoming Windows 8 will include new features to Reset or Refresh your computer. Reset wipes out your entire disk and restores it to they way it was when the computer was new, Refresh keeps some files and settings, but wipes and restores everything else. Given the propensity of Windows machines to become overrun with malware, rogue toolbars, cramware, and other unwanted annoyances, a way to get rid of it all quickly seems like a great idea. But ... See more ... posted at: 00:47 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Internet/ms8.trackback 26 Dec 2011 Filtering spam at the transport level Email An interesting new paper from the Naval Postgraduate School (paper here, conference slides here) describes what appears to be an interesting new twist on spam filtering, looking at the characteristics of the TCP session through which the mail is delivered. See more ... posted at: 23:40 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/tcpfilter.trackback 16 Dec 2011 Who's registering .XXX domains ICANN ICANN has an obscure process called Zone File Access, which lets you get access to each top-level domain's zone file, which lists all of its second-level domains. I asked for access to .XXX several months ago, and my password arrived this afternoon. See more ... posted at: 00:42 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/ICANN/xxxzone.trackback 14 Dec 2011 Apparently endless free money from Capital One Money A year and a half ago I blogged about my Capital One credit card's payment checks sent along with the monthly statement, that offered a free loan for about 45 days. Early last year I stopped because they sometimes bounce the checks even though the online statement says there's plenty of credit. Since then, they stopped sending the checks, but I found that I could point and click on their web site and have them mail me a check, payable to me. See more ... posted at: 13:18 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Money/freeupdate.trackback

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