Aging Outreach Services, a Moore County, North Carolina human services company, has launched their new web site! Aging Outreach Services provides non-medical help for seniors in Moore County.

According to their web site,

The complexities of in home care, facility placement, hospitalization, government programs, legal and financial professionals, health concerns and related costs can be overwhelming. We have extensive knowledge and experience coordinating the needs and services that provide quality ongoing care to you and your family.

Our caring services begin with an intake of your needs to determine the first step needed in tailoring our services to meet your personalized needs.

The new site is more colorful and uses a flash element in the header. Most important, the customer is now able to make web site updates via the browser!

Aging Outreach Services - the Old Web Site

Aging Outreach Services - the New Web Site

North Carolina web design and North Carolina web hosting services were provided by ConnectNC, Inc.

This is a common situation these days.  Malicious code has been developed to allow spammers to distribute their junk mail a variety of ways.

In the old days, we’d tell people just to be careful about posting their email addresses on web sites or newsgroups. Today, all it takes is an infected machine on which your email address is saved in an address book!

In order to combat spam, it’s now important for all computer users to keep their machines secured using the latest security software and by making sure operating system updates are done. Sometimes even this is not enough, since modern coders can defeat most commercially available Internet Security applications.  Why can’t they use their powers for good instead of evil?

Be careful about designating email addresses or domains as trusted.  Many spam filters, including our own, allow users to whitelist specific email addresses or entire domains.  Imagine what could happen if you whitelisted the entire hotmail.com domain? That means anyone sending you a message with a return address from hotmail.com is going to get past the spam filter. Unfortunately, you can no longer whitelist your OWN email address! Spammers are sending junk mail to you with your own return address!

What’s a person to do? Make sure your security software is up to date.  If you haven’t installed anything, please call ConnectNC to have a tech perform a security scan on your system and install your software. If everyone maintained good system security, we’d go a long way towards eliminating spam that comes from infected machines.

Last, but not least, never, ever buy from a spammer. They’re not sending you junk mail for fun.  They’re doing it to make money. About ten years ago, one spammer told me that his employer made $30,000 in one day after they sent out unsolicited commercial email to a very large number of addresses. Their hosting and email accounts were cancelled, but it was well worth it to them. So, let’s try to make spamming an unprofitable venture.  We should all agree that we’ll never buy anything that was promoted in an unsolicited message we received.

AOL has something they call an Email Feedback Report. ISPs can register with AOL so they’ll be notified any time an email message is reported as spam. Unfortunately for the sender, the entire contents of the message are left intact for the ISP to review. The Email Feedback Report protects the identity of the recipient, but not the sender. Therefore, any message reported to AOL as spam (either rightly or wrongly) gets sent to the sender’s ISP.

What does this potentially mean? It means that a sender’s love notes, racist or sexist jokes and personal and business information are revealed to the sender’s ISP if that message is reported as spam.

We try to inform our customers when a message has been returned to us by AOL. In MOST of the cases, the sender reports back that the recipient did NOT (either intentionally or accidentally) mark their message as spam. Therefore, we’re making the assumption that there’s some flaw in AOL’s mail system that tags messages as spam in error.

Because we see several of these a week, my own personal policy is to never send anything I would want to have kept confidential to people with AOL email addresses.

I just wanted to pass this along so people will be aware and take steps to maintain their privacy.

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