Barbara has blogged here before about the new TechSoup Limited offerings available to nonprofits and libraries on a limited basis. It was just brought to my attention that there are four TS Limited products that organizations and libraries are allowed to re-distribute to their constituents, members, and individual supporters.

Our donor partner, PC Tools has made their Internet Security, Registry Mechanic, Spyware Doctor, and famous Spyware Doctor with Antivirus broadly available to nonprofits and libraries — and now to your members and users as well. 

Each of the three products includes 3 licences that can be installed on 3 different machines (for a total of 9 installations) so not only can your organization use their spyware, antivirus, and registry cleaning tools to keep your computers functioning well, but you can share them with the individuals you serve. According to the restrictions:

If you send mass email messages, you probably see a lot of bouncebacks that look like this:

Remote host said: 550 SC-004 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons.

So what the heck does bounce code "550 SC-004" mean? The Email Experience Council's Deliverability Roundtable (Chris Wheeler of Bronto Software, Jack Sinclair of Return Path, and Josh Baer of OtherInbox) has put together a list of common email bounce codes to help decode why your emails might not be making it to their intended recipients.

Photo: Balakov 

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., makers of the popular ZoneAlarm security software products, is having a one day only special promotion of their Internet Security Suite for only $9.95 from 6 a.m. Pacific time April 14 to 6 a.m. Pacific time April 15. While you may have already used its award-winning free firewall before, this full suite includes antivirus and anti-spyware protection for up to 3 users. Best of all, 50% of the proceeds from the promotion will help TechSoup Global in our efforts to bring technology resources to social benefit organizations around the world. So if you still haven't had up-to-date protection on your PC's, check out this limited time offer, and help us help you!

Chances are, you did. Several weeks after a major spam-trafficking ISP was shut down, spam traffic spiked up over this past weekend.

According to MessageLabs via The Wall Street Journal, spam-sending malware that were installed in unsecured computers recently re-established connections to their controlling botnets, and resumed their "operations."

While this is just another chapter in the spam wars, this goes to show that fighting spam is a collective effort from the ISPs, down to the individual computers.

Join TechSoup this month in our Stop Spam Today campaign to make sure you have the best tools and resources to win the fight. Our campaign includes great resources, forum discussions, a free spam-stopping webinar next Tuesday, December 9, as well as Mailshell anti-spam software FREE on December 10.

Get all the details and join our campaign to stop spam in its tracks before YOUR personal information is stolen or misused.