IAC: Still not stopping "rogue affiliates"

I've got an update on SurfTown coming shortly (still not cleaned their network!!), but in the meantime, a look at what was reported to me as a spammer site, using the same well known fake news site layout, is sending people to SmileyCentral when you click their links - nice to know IAC are still not trying to put a stop to this .... (though perhaps not surprising).The site, grantsguide.info is

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Update: Yet more connectivity issues

I am happy to report, I've gotten most of the problems sorted out, so most of the resources are now back online. fSpamlist was moved to an external server owned by Josh, to minimize the downtime.References:Issues: Yet more connectivity issueshttp://hphosts.blogspot.com/2010/11/issues-yet-more-connectivity-issues.html

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Issues: Yet more connectivity issues

Oh joy. As if BT hadn't made things horrid to begin with, with outages sporadically over the past few weeks, it seems something has gone awry again today.Unfortunately, whilst the primary hpHosts server seems to be working, the rest are not, nor is the mail server (has a motherboard issue). I've done what I can from here, but won't actually have direct access to the servers until later this

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Bredolab Takedown – Just the tip of the Iceberg

Recent reports from various sources in the security industry show that a large takedown of servers associated with the “Bredolab” trojan occurred within the past few weeks. While most of the reports have focused around the idea that this infrastructure was solely related to the command and control of Bredolab, our research shows that these servers were used as an all-purpose hosting

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