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We finally dumped Nextel Blackberry phones & went with Sprint Samsung Epic 4g

After another horrible day of Nextel service I gave up and went to the Sprint store where they attempted to upgrade the software on my Blackberry 8350i…   What was supposed to take a few minutes (45 or so) ended up taking until the end of their business day, and they were going to have it for me at start …

Be careful when adding content filters to MDaemon or Trend Micro

About a week ago, a network administrator that our company provides assistance to contacted us with an oddball issue… All mail seemed to be working well, both in and out, except for mail coming into her domain from one company. The obvious was checked, such as the other company’s IP against all known block lists (RBLS), logs for blocked spam …

SECURE IT ALERT: “Here You Have” Email Contains Fake and Malicious PDF or WMV Links

Homeland Secure IT Alert for September 10th, 2010   Making the news this week has been dire warnings of a rapidly spreading email worm. While it appears to be nothing more than we have seen in the past, I have reposted a security alert from Watchguard, makers of a great firewall devices and security appliances.   — Supposedly Wide-Spread Email …

Setting up a “gatekeeper” account in Microsoft Exchange & Outlook

Tip Of The Day – Gatekeeper Email Setup: Here’s the scenario… Assume you are an executive and you are lucky enough to have a personal assistant. Now, let’s also assume you are sick of getting email from just any Tom, Dick or Harry. What do you do? You make your PA your “Gatekeeper”. There are lots of ways to handle …

Using Microsoft Exchange 2007 or 2010? Let’s stop some spam with Trend Micro

Businesses using Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010 have many opportunities to stop spam dead in its tracks! Microsoft expanded spam filtering with the release of Exchange 2007 over the previous Exchange 2k3 release and it does an admirable job once configured correctly and a few RBLs (Real-time Block Lists) are setup, but don’t stop there for sure. By using Trend …