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How to Disguise Your Email Address – Email Obfuscation
Spam is a horrible thing. It is probably what annoys people the most about the internet. And for webmasters, owners / managers of websites, email spam can be horrific. For years spammers have been building “bots” that crawl the internet a...
GMail Phishing Alert – Google Accounts Being Threatened By Scammers
Barry Welford, one of the Cre8easiteforums moderators, has just alerted us to the follow phishing scam that is targeting Google Account holders. I have now twice within the last few days had a very authentic-looking Gmail message from Google that in ...
Conficker Virus Starts Installing Mystery Software
There is currently a major PC virus attack in progress, which is affecting millions of PC’s, and mostly is going unnoticed by home computer owners that do not follow PC security news, or run AV software. The virus is called Conflicker, and appe...
Dixons, Currys and PC World Websits are all Down!
Today a major UK retail chain has lost all internet visibility. All of DSG International’s online stores are currently off-line! The websites for Dixons, Currys and PC World have all been offline for most of the day today. The message on each w...
Domain Name Phishing Alert
We received an email today stating that our domain was being canceleld as the WHOIS information was not correct. Here is a except of the email: On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 08:04:38 +0200 we received a third party complaint of invalid domain contact informatio...
