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The level of spam is increasing dramatically, yet hosting systems and the Bush Administration are wimpys in all of this. One particularly agressive spam host is netplace.ru, with an email address of support@netplace.ru. LOTS of illegal spam comming from this guy. We suggest millions of users stomp this host until they die with multiple botnets.
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Here are a few good web sites for developers:
Lost your site?
You try to pull up your site on the Internet and it won’t come up. Is it your computer, the network, or your server? A quick way to find out is to go to http://www.alertra.com. For free, they will attempt to reach your site from […]

We maintain a black list of IPs and domains that have spammed or phished us. This list is saved on our local computer in Microsoft Access and periodically uploaded to a MySQL table on the host that is made available to hackers, the FTC, and (when relevant) to individual state Attorney Generals. In mid-January […]

Some of you have noticed that our black list of spammers doesn’t work at the moment. If you want to hack these IPs at the moment, just email us from our contact form and we’ll email you the ACCESS file. Meanwhile, here is what happened.
The black list is kept on a local database on our […]

A new virus threat has been identified that could affect any version of Microsoft Windows. It is particularly dangerous in that it can be carried in an email attachment and can be tripped from simply visiting a web site that contains the virus. For more information see

Info on Microsoft Virus
Be sure you are using anti-virus […]

We are constantly amazed at how many users ignore basic security issues on their computer. The end result is ALWAYS loss of critical information that can’t be recovered and extraordinary expenses rebuilding the system when basic security steps could have saved everything. The three basic security tools you should ALWAYS have on your system are […]