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Rogers: the worst Canadian ISP

By Ian on April 11, 2007 in Geek

This is interesting. And Telus isn’t great also. They don’t have open connections, you need to specially configure your PC and only allow two PCs from what I’ve seen.

Rogers: the worst Canadian ISP – scruffydan.com/blog -not associated with reality

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Dealing with Email – some suggestions

By Ian on March 8, 2007 in Geek

43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders
These are posts from a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way.

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Daily Dose of Excel – Useful Utilities

By Ian on March 7, 2007 in Geek

Daily Dose of Excel » Blog Archive » Useful Utilities

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How to Post to WordPress using Word 2007

By Ian on January 18, 2007 in Geek

I am looking forward to this feature. Hopefully it posts clean HTML!

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Phishing Scam – Security Fix – Be Careful!

By Ian on January 4, 2007 in Geek

Phishing is where bad guys trick you into getting your secret information. And they are getting trickier. They are still a step ahead of the software, though the new Internet Explorer is a bit better. It is a game of catch-up. Here’s an article to read on avoiding getting caught.

Not Your Average Phishing Scam – Security Fix
One of the first phishing scams to catch Security Fix’s eye in the new year — a counterfeit Amazon.com login page — may set the tone for the sophistication of online schemes involving fake bank and e-commerce sites in 2007. The bogus site, which was active as of early Tuesday morning, makes use of the real Amazon.com site in an effort to fool visitors into entering their real usernames and passwords.

This type of trick, known as a type of “man-in-the-middle” attack, logs the user into his or her account at Amazon.com, then it displays the data that Amazon serves up once the user is logged in. Visitors who supply bogus or otherwise incorrect usernames and passwords are shown a copy of the page Amazon users normally see if they mistype either of their credentials.

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