NetPoint Internet News

Posted by Craig

Please be aware that more and more phishing scams are being produced. Organizations like banks, paypals or ebay, will usually not ask you to sign in to verify your id.

If you are uncertain, go to their website using your book marks or from the URL directly, (don't use the link provided in the email.)

Posted by Craig

Some web sites and services may experience some brief interruptions this evening.

Posted by Craig

User support group meeting has been rescheduled for March 8, 2005.

Posted by Craig

One organization claims that MCI alone profits over $5 million dollars from spam enterprises each year.

Spamhaus is an entity which maintains one of several "Realtime Blackhole Lists" (RBLs) that NetPoint uses to filter incoming mail through.

These RBLs are lists of known spam sources and are automatically rejected before the message is delieverd to your inbox.

In a 24 hour period, spamhaus alone rejected 11,514 pieces of mail.

In the same 24 hour period, NetPoint blocked 83,731 messages from known spam gangs using 10 additional RBLs.

Messages which make it through the RBLs then get filtered through Spam Assassin. This software searches for spam using a heuristic approach, in the same 24 hour period, it filtered an additional 10,819 messages.

At NetPoint we routinely continue to refine our anti-spam measures. Scanning for Spam and Viruses is something we've been doing for more than 6 years, long before other hard-sell companies like Earthlink and AOL
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3469091

Posted by Craig

In the 1950's some scientist predicted some homes would have computers in the year 2004. Click the link to see how we measured up to their expectation!
Photo submitted by E. Carberry, Thanks!
http://www.starpoint.net/homecomputer.html