Blog about spam issues on our servers
We have been working for many years in the hosting industry and understand that nowadays people really don’t have the time or the money to spend on bandwidth or staff trudging through unsolicited spam emails. 97% of emails are spam! Our system is not a new concept, but just an efficient one. We have looked around to find the best system to supply to our clients and also anybody else out there that needs email …
Whilst enjoying the sunshine in La Managa in Murcia Spain recently we were able to pick up more Spanish business. Being a business that uses the web we are always able to pick up clients when we travel and last week was no difference. Before traveling we looked up a few domain names of the businesses we were visiting and one great domain name that one our of old friends at Cada Media was looking …
We would like to inform all our clients on our business hosting packs that we have put a limit on the number of outgoing emails to avoid them being “ear-marked” as amateur spammers! Example: If you are using an email program like Outlook Express, Thunder Bird you will be writing an email and then adding in multiple email address and sometimes up to 40 or 50 email addresses in one go. Then the email sent …
We are getting a lot of calls to the office this week asking about the following email that many people are getting. It is s scam, delete it, these people know that many people in Ireland are claiming more tax back etc Scam Email = Delete. If you do get an email like this just look at the location of the link that the image will bring you too. It will be a strange website …
We noticed today that we recieved an email for the the ICS monitoring Team threatening to cut of internet access. This is spam email delete it. The email looks like this: Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed Warning: (report.exe, report.zip). Warning: Please read the “cadamedia-Attachment-Warning.txt” attachment(s) for more information. Your internet access is going to get suspended The Internet Service Provider Consorcium was made to protect the rights of software authors, …
You have just received a virtual postcard from a friend ! Spam Virus Do Not Open the link on this email Unless every person I know has a friend suddenly sending them postcards from the edge ( of reason) I would strongly advise NOT to open or click on the link in the above email subject titled: You have just received a virtual postcard from a friend ! it could be a recently warned against …
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If you have received an email in the past 2 days from us telling you that you that your mailbox has been deactivated please note that this is not actually from ourselves, but rather an atempt by a spam bot to penetrate our new servers. The attachment mail is a text file letting you know that the .exe and .zip attachment with the email has been removed from your email. We suspect that this went …
I got an email today from a new customer and was interested to see that they are using the eircom net email protector service and when I clicked on the link the service supplied to view the withheld content I got a great error message “The error ‘server’ occurred, what a bummer.” Classic! For professional Spam filtering service contact Cada Media Ltd today and we’ll take your custom seriously. Call 053 9430748
We have been supplying spam filters to our clients for a long time now, but since the global recession has kicked in we’ve seen a huge increase in the volumes of spam going through of servers, eating the band width and consuming huge processing time, not to mention squatting on Gigabytes of our server space. Because of this we have been working on creating a product to help our clients and to help ourselves on …
I suppose that this is the obious but Spam is on the increase in these harder times as spammer use email to market their products online. We have had a number of clients on to us asking if we can stop it. Yes. We have spam filters on our servers that can block the unwanted and time wasting emails that are blocking most people inboxes. Just give us a call to find out how we …
We have noticed that we are getting more and more requested from companies asking us to help remove their spam from their inboxes. Staff are wasting time each morning and afternoon going through up to 100 emails per day selling online drugs to relationship advice! (some are similar !) Not only is this wasting time, but you as the owner of the business are also putting yourself in a legal situation with respect to the …
Spam is on the rise. We have had a number of telephone calls about the high level of spam that clients and others are receiving in the new year. As the global ecomomy slows companies are using more and more email to get their point across, so expect more of this in 2009. We have spam filters on our servers and can help your business get rid of this huge staff time wasting animal. Call …
WorldWideDomainName.com These guys are really pushing the envelope when it comes to getting in touch with your clients. They are currently bomb barding the internet with tonnes of junk email about website, domain registration and web marketing services. It is spam, delete it and what ever you do : Do Not reply to it, it only comfirms your email address to the program sending it out.
We have noticed an increase in the volume of spam email coming into our mail server and especially from Polish and Russian origins. There are many ways of keeping out spam email from your inbox: 1, Remove links on website with your email, these spammers “harvest” email addresses they find on websites 2, Insert your email in another format, example dave[at]cadamedia dot ie 3, Update your Email program, ie Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc. They have …
What is Phishing? This is when a website is set up similar to a famous site and invites you to log in and update your details. Many Banks in ireland have had problems whereby someone has set up a website with a similar or mis-spelt domain that looks like the real address. Real businesses do not contact you and ask you to update your details online. The method if like “Fishing”, they are just chancing …
