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Anti-Spam screensaver is out of control?

Lycos Europe launched their “Make love not spam” campaign earlier this week, with a screensaver designed to send large amounts of traffic to the sites of known spammers when your computer was idle, forcing the spammers to absorb large bandwidth bills. The...

Hotmail Addresses

Until now most people were sick of having to add lots of numbers and underscores after their name to get an individual hotmail address (why anyone is using hotmail when BetterWebSpace can offer you a website and your own domain name for less than £22 per year is...

Testing your SPAM filters

I’ve just upgraded the BetterWebSpace SPAM scanners – if you want to test your spam filters are working, put the string below into an email and it should trigger most SPAM filters!...

Yahoo Messenger Competition

I would have thought Yahoo Messenger had given up by now based on the popularity of MSN (and AIM’s popularity in the US), but it would appear not! They’ve launched a competition with a top prize of a new years eve party in a castle with your mates, a meal,...

Using 127.0.0.1 in your resolv.conf?

If you have recently upgraded cPanel you may be seeing this: Security Warning, your resolver configuration contains 127.0.0.1 (localhost). For security reasons, we recommend that you use a non-local dns resolver. Click here to change your configuration. So...