Firetrust blogs

Please run the MailWasher Pro Statistics Collector

chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:11:14 +0000

If you aren’t aware we are rewriting MailWasher from scratch, we are about 8 months into development and things are really shaping up well.

Scams Target You - Protect Yourself

chris — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:28:35 +0000

It’s Fraud Awareness Week here until the 9th of March, so plenty is going on in regards to helping people educate themselves, and report scams to protect others.

MailWasher Pro needs testers

chris — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:57:55 +0000

Let’s face it, beta testing software is not very sexy, especially with the kinds of qualities that work well when dealing with software companies directly, providing them feedback and thoughts on aspects that can be improved.

Hotmail now with free POP3 access

chris — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:17:48 +0000

Hotmail has finally moved out of the Age of Stupid and entered the Age of Last Century by allowing free POP3 and SMTP access. It has been available for some time already for Hotmail Plus subscribers, but as Hotmail Plus was a paid service and competitors such as GMail offered free POP3, IMAP and SMTP access it was not widely adopted.

If you're asking yourself what is POP3 how does it relate to my Hotmail and why do I care, then let's break it down.

Intelligence Not Included

chris — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:36:06 +0000

Throughout November 2008 we received some 30 odd purchases of our Benign software through a single affiliate. Affiliate programs like ours give sellers a percentage of each sale, so people with their own website can promote products and earn a commission.

The proof is in the chocolate

chris — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:22:25 +0000

We've been getting really great responses since we said we would again take trade for MailWasher Pro

So as I have a holiday tomorrow, giving that nice long weekend and a stomach full of chocolate I thought I'd share some things we've seen this week.

Very special thanks to Dane from Switzerland, yummy chocolate as well as being the first person to send something in.

Firetrust now takes trade

chris — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:00:10 +0000

Back when MailWasher Pro was just called MailWasher, which we only took voluntary donations for, we also used to receive all sorts of great gifts.

New Firetrust Support Forums

chris — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:41:59 +0000

Over the last several years we have hosted all our forums with www.castlecops.com It has been a great partnership for us, we’ve made a lot of friends, and myself especially have enjoyed watching CastleCops grow over the years into a massive community. The commitment and drive behind CastleCops really made it a benchmark for other security related websites, and the community built has been absolutely tremendous in assisting not only each other, but to help us better understand our customers.

Google Insights

chris — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:40:08 +0000

Google Insights (Beta) is a new tool from Google allowing you to compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories and time frames.

The flexibility and functionality it gives will draw significant increases in deployment of marketing strategies, further understanding of target demographics, and give analysts a comparative view on user search patterns.

Contextual advertising

chris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:48 +0000

I do enjoy the benefits of contextual advertising. Read an article about laptops, see advertising on laptops and their associated products. It has its limits of course, as I don't want my privacy being invaded to serve these adverts either.

Perhaps though, in this case, things have been taken too far. Taken from the Sydney Morning Herald today.