Have Someone Spamming you? Report him
In order to report a person who is spamming you, you will need their IP address and then you click the image above and report them.
TRACING THE SOURCE OF SPAM EMAIL
Open the offending message in your inbox and view the full headers. Different email clients have different ways of doing this, but the facility almost always exists, even in gmail and AOL (Although once you click Spam button AOL and Gmail admins will be notified and if others have similar complaints that IP address will be reported)
Microsoft's Outlook email clientIn MS Outlook 2002, and 2003 double click email, go to view > options.
In MS Outlook 2007, double click email, go to other actions > message header.
Scroll down and look for the line that starts with 'Received:'
For example:
Received: from mail.emaildirect.net (mail.emaildirect.net [65.98.250.173])
Now that you have the IP address of the culprit, report him
message pops up saying I need to install new version of flash yet flash is working
I recently installed Flashplayer 10 on my Vista machine and kept on running into a message that I needed to install the latest flash player software, which was interesting because when I close the message, flash worked anyway. So I did some thinking and did a search and finally found the solution at a forum:
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-66707-how-do-i-download-flash-player-10-on-vistaHere is the fix:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flashplayer_10_ax_debug.exe
Reindexing your blog and putting it into google rankings
Having done some research, I noted that in order to better my position on google's searches I would need to have my own website. The new website is at
http://screamatthepc.com/I have now re-indexed this website and have submitted the site index to google's webmaster tools.
Now I am going to wait for googlebot to find my website.
President Obama's Blackberry Hackable? Hmm I think it would be hard but not impossible
Very cool president to be allowed to have a Blackberry, certainly
tech savvy...
Kevin Mitnick, a cybercrime pioneer, claims that given the right skills, a person could hack Obama’s handheld (FoxNews.com, 2009). I don’t think you need to interview a former
hacker to understand that any piece of technology can be hacked, given time, patience, perseverance, and the right skill set. Most security professionals don’t work under the assumption their networks are completely secure, just secure enough.
First, let’s look at the work-factor (time and effort) necessary to crack
Obama’s Blackberry. The handheld has a special encryption package and Obama is limited in how he can use it. No IM is allowed and only a small number of people are allowed to communicate with him via email (abcnews.com, 2009). Physical access to Obama’s Blackberry is very limited, unless the
hacker can break through the phalanx of Secret Service agents. I’m sure it’s on someone’s checklist to protect the Blackberry as they would anything else of national security significance. So getting to the device is extremely difficult, even if an attacker knew what to do when he or she got there.
Second, the probability of being arrested once a hack is complete is very high. Hacking into the president’s technology would call down upon the unfortunate
hacker the full force of U.S. Federal law enforcement.
Ask Mitnick how that worked out for him. And the
Feds are much better at rooting out cybercriminals than they were in the late 20th century.
There has been speculation about whether GPS capability in the Blackberry might give away Obama’s position. However, this is easily resolved by turning the device off when the Secret Service takes the president to an undisclosed location.
The work factor and the probable consequences of hacking into the president’s Blackberry act together as a strong deterrent against all but the most motivated attacker, one who either doesn’t care if he or she is caught or is under the protection of a powerful sponsor (e.g., China or Russia).
After all this, can the device or supporting service still be hacked? Of course. However, the safeguards in place provide a reasonable and appropriate level of security while allowing the president to maintain contact with key staff at all times. In other words, security is present without preventing Obama from doing his job.
So to sum it up, should President Obama have a Blackberry? Hell Yeah!
Should he worry about security? Not for the meantime, but it is important for his security team not to become too lax.
Putting my blog on google and indexing my site
I am currently in the process of learning how to be a Web Master, one of my first steps has been to improve my rankings on google searches...
1) Signed into
http://www.google.com/webmasters/ using my Google account.
2) Added my blog url
smackthepc.blogspot.com3) I then verified it using meta tags that I added to my blogger template.
4) I then added a sitemap, I just used the rss feed for my blog, details at
http://techmake.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-submit-blogger-sitemap.htmlThat done, I set up learning how to submit my site to the open directory project. This is work in progress...
The quest for free Wifi in Durban
I often see many a person working on their laptop at a coffee shop andenvisioned that it was probably because Wireless Internet at thatcoffee shop was either free or cheap. It seems that in Durban WirelessInternet at coffee shops is just a convenience and most of the time isnot free.However being an avid surfer, I decided to explore my options:
Option 1 The first ten minutes at any
Mugg and Bean are free, there after it is time to get out your
credit card. If you are an Mweb subscriber or you live in Kloof then
your Wireless Internet is free for 3 hours a month.
Option 2 Taco Zulu restaurant in Florida Road offers free wireless, just watch the 20MB limit
SheBee writes: http://moralfibre.co.za/blog/2009/01/26/taco-zulu-durban-restaurant-review/Option 3 Most
Durban libraries are now said to have free wireless internet:
"Free wireless internet access is already available
in all 85 libraries, thanks to eThekwini being the first municipality
in South Africa to roll out a fibre optic network that links all its
offices. Members can use the computers in the libraries, or bring their
own, wireless enabled laptops. Membership of the city’s libraries is
free and the membership number is used as the user name password to
enable connectivity."
ConclusionSo if you want free wireless Internet, the best place to go wouldprobably be the library. If you were hoping to have coffee with yoursurfing, then I suggest that you find a coffee shop close to thelibrary...My sources of information:
http://www.freewi-fi.co.za/free-hotspotshttp://moralfibre.co.za/blog/author/shebee/http://www.durban.gov.za/durban/services/services_news/rural-digital-gap-bridged?searchterm=suite&plone_skin=eThekwiniPrintLabels: Coffee Shop Wireless, Free Internet, Wi-Fi, Wireless Hotspots
