by Charles Oropallo | January 22, 2021 5:00 pm | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Spam, Technical Help, Web Hosting, WordPress
I cannot begin to tell you how many people believe that once their website is done they are “all set”. Many think they don’t have to do anything more to it once it is out there live. While that may seem true in that moment, there is still much that...
by Charles Oropallo | October 28, 2020 12:30 pm | Scams & Spoofs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Spam
Almost all businesses get the usual spam SEO (Search Engine Optimization) phone calls and emails. Recently, one of our web clients took a spammer’s SEO phone call. As a result of such calls, she emailed us. Her concerns prompted this article. She expressed a lot...
by Charles Oropallo | January 1, 2020 9:00 am | Domain Names, Technical Help, Web Hosting, WordPress
CharlesWorks uses Let’s Encrypt to provide SSL (Secure Socket Layers) for your web presence! Note: On websites hosted after January 1, 2020, CharlesWorks automatically offers the FREE Let’s Encrypt encryption service to offer SSL certificates for sites...
by Charles Oropallo | April 1, 2013 12:00 pm | Scams & Spoofs, Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
We’ve been extremely busy over the past year and haven’t gotten our newsletter out as often as we’d have liked to. We are sending this particular one out to let you know about ongoing attacks on the Internet, the most recent of which have been...
by Charles Oropallo | April 1, 2011 12:00 pm | Scams & Spoofs, Technical Help
“A 2010 study by Google found in excess of 11,000 domains hosting fake anti-virus software, accounting for 50% of all malware delivered via internet advertising.” The Fake Antivirus Software or Fake Virus Detection Software Scams If you go anywhere on the...
by Charles Oropallo | January 1, 2010 12:00 pm | Email, Scams & Spoofs
Scammers are getting more clever in ways to scare people into providing personal information. Here is a recent example: Subject: WELCOME TO WEB MAIL!!! WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR MAIL From: Web Mail <xyz@rocketmail.com> Sent: Dec 27, 2009 10:50:58 AM Reply-To:...