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November 10th, 2008

Frequent Phishing Scam Using Microsoft

Image: Screen capture of email message in Gmail
I’ve been getting a number of spam email messages that are using Microsoft as their "trusted" name to let people feel safer about an email and feel that it’s a legitimate message they need to be paying attention to in their Inbox.
As you can see from the screen […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 13th, 2007

Adding Safe Senders Automatically in Outlook

Scanning through some recent Lifehacker posts reminded me of a little tip I’ve been using for quite awhile now. When you first start using Outlook, it doesn’t trust anyone for e-mail to you if you’ve got your security settings set to fairly high.
Wendy shares a link on Lifehacker to a post on Tech-Recipes that goes […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

November 2nd, 2006

Microsoft Offers Free Sender ID

Something absolutely needs to start changing about e-mail and spam. Hopefully this type of thing will be the spark that ignites more and more development in this arena.
Microsoft Corp. has made its Sender ID framework for email authentication license free.
As of Monday, the technology is available through the software maker’s Open Specification Promise, which […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

August 7th, 2006

Visual Studio 2005 Hotfix Available

I’m reposting a comment from Cameron McCall on behalf of Chris Mayo regarding a hotfix that is now available for Visual Studio 2005. We’ve been having some problems with Akismet identifying Cameron and Chris’ comments as spam. I’m looking into making sure that doesn’t happen anymore, but for now, here you go!
I’m sending this on […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

June 2nd, 2006

OneCare Faces Some Competition

Did anyone doubt that Microsoft would face some competition in the anti-virus security space with the release of OneCare? Is this really news?
Symantec’s Norton 360 and McAfee’s Falcon both will offer services similar to OneCare, which launched on Wednesday, promising protection against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software as well as help with improving PC […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 31st, 2006

OneCare Officially Launched

I’ve written a number of articles on Microsoft’s OneCare service that’s been in development. I’ve been very pleased overall with the service and functionality. Plus, for me, having the software integrate so tightly with the existing OS, seems like a no brainer. My other complaint is that Symantec and McAfee’s applications seem to just hog […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 22nd, 2006

A Note About Spamments

This site has been deluged with Spamments (my name for spam comments) the last few days. I’m wiping all the comments pending approval. If you’re a legitimate commenter and don’t see a comment you’ve left over the last few days appear, my apologies, I probably erased your comment. Please let me know and re-comment. I’d […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments