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Can email spoofing be prevented?
It is indeed very hard to solve the problem of e-mail spoofing in a general way, due to the simple and highly distributed way the protocol is designed.
The physical letter analogy holds up quite well ...
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Can email spoofing be prevented?
Emailing all the live contacts in her address book & telling them about the email spam problems would probably help. And now's as good a time as any to remove any dead contacts from the list.
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Can email spoofing be prevented?
What can be done depends on how much of the infrastructure you have control over, and whether you are using your own domain name or simply have an address under a domain controlled by somebody else.
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Can email spoofing be prevented?
Yes and no.
Nothing stops me from writing an email with your address as a sender. This is not different from regular paper mail where I also can put a destination address on the front of the ...
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Can email spoofing be prevented?
You are approaching this incorrectly.
From years spent in the computer repair industry, I can tell you it's very unlikely there was any "hacking" going on here. It's far more likely your wife's ...
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Forward typo emails
If you just want to know what it's called, so that you can search for providers which offer it, the usual term I've seen is a "catch all" e-mail account.
Actually, the relationship between e-mail ...
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Make IPv6 Server accessible for IPv4 Networks
Ok, I've now set up a cheap VPS and let it run:
socat TCP4-LISTEN:443,fork,su=nobody TCP6:[1234:1234:1234:::1234]:443
works for me!
edit: for UDP I use:
socat UDP4-RECVFROM:443,fork,su=nobody ...
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Do I need to purchase a Positive SSL while buying a domain?
No. Domains are completely independent from TLS certificates; Namecheap is just trying to upsell.
(There is no such term as "a positive ssl" in general – that's just a product marketing name used by ...
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Is editing “hosts” file in Windows necessary to host Apache Virtual Hosts?
If you have an external DNS service (like GoDaddy) configured to point to your local IP for the specific domain name you want to use, you do not need the hosts file.
You only need the local hosts ...
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What are the protocol options for read-write connection to a server?
SFTP is far better for these reasons:
it's not plaintext like FTP
the webhosting company is probably on a Linux or Unix platform and SFTP works well with this operating system and user accounts on it....
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How can I find the web host company for a web domain?
To answer your specific whois question: You can go to a site like lookup.icann.org and enter the name of the website. For example if you enter poleguy.com in the search, you'll see the nameservers are ...
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Custom domain for Node.js hosted website on private network
So I see a few solutions to your problem:
Some SOHO routers do provide DNS capability in which you could set your ip to static for your machine and create a DNS record.
Most modern OS’s do provide ....
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Can email spoofing be prevented?
There are two issues here. Your specific question about validating email senders, and what one can do when email is being sent in your name.
Unfortunately it is a simple matter to spoof the From: ...
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Website on Server A and Mails on Server B?
Domain names aren't "registered" with a server (they're registered with a registrar such as GoDaddy or Namecheap); while owning a domain is often bundled with server hosting or website hosting, they'...
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this domain is already in use error?
If you have forgotten your 000webhost.com password, you can reset your password here.
You should regain access to your old account rather than create a new one because you have already setup your ...
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Can't install Git in Godaddy web hosting
It seems the file in the link does not exist any more.
You can retrieve the file from the Google Code Archive.
See in particular git-core, which contains a link to git-1.8.1.2.tar.gz.
You could, of ...
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Domain Masking, DDNS or something else to host different sites on one site/domain?
tl;dr: (1) a subdomain is part of a domain, (2) other domains can point to the same server, (3) people could see through that if they wanted to
By definition, a subdomain is part of a parent domain
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Apache2 "Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server"
Most likely either Apache or another webserver (e.g. nginx) is already running. To check for that, grep the process list for apache, httpd and nginx or use netstat -anp | grep ':80\s' to find out.
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How to integrate cURL on my public_html?
Is it possible to integrate cURL to my website
There are two possible ways of "integrating" it:
Running the same curl shell command from PHP, through popen() or system(). This is not very efficient, ...
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Host website from portable drive connected to router
As said in the comments, your router alone does run a webserver (configuration tools) however it probably won't take to running your PHP, etc. from XAMPP.
Spend $50 and get a Raspberry Pi with a case,...
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What is actually happening on uploading the files from FileZilla ? Are we hosting it ? , if yes how it is actually linked with web hosting provider?
FileZilla is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program used to connect to and transfer files to and from an FTP server. FileZilla itself does not host any websites.
However, many servers running apache ...
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Does shared web hosting host each website on a separate server or on separate virtual machines?
Shared hosting typically — and historically — happens on a single machine with Apache name-based virtual hosts and per-user web directories enabled.
In 2020 “it depends” might be a valid answer, but ...
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How can I find the web host company for a web domain?
Unfortunately, if you are not the owner of the site - as in paying for it - there is nothing you can accomplish. Domain registrars and web hosting companies are not going to hand over personal ...
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How to make Nginx server available on public IP
From what I know, this should be really simple, all you would need to do is to open port 93 from your ubuntu machine in your router to be accessible for http or https traffic from the outside and you ...
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wordpress website hacked; undesirable links and content added but admin panel looks fine
It may also be that your relative spread the virus to you through your communications with them?
I would contact your host provider and request that they run a full virus / malware scan on your ...
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Nginx "Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server."
There was just 2 sites that uses same ports, I just deleted one of them
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Files I have hosted on a server get downloaded instead of opening in the browser when I click on links to them?
Unfortunately, there is no way of forcing this behaviour without having access to the server where you upload your code. If you really need this behaviour, consider posting your code on a different ...
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Document Root Change in Cpanel
cPanel sites have a global setting for website root directories. You cannot change this without modifying the root vhosts file, which you should not have access to (If you do, please let GoDaddy know ...
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Connect domain (from Namecheap) to hosting (at OVH)
So it turns out it wasn't because of slow propagation. I had to reset my DNS zone at OVH (choosing simplified default setup) and then adding an A record pointing to the web server's IP address.
All ...
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SSH2 in Bitvise terminates unexpectedly
I faced the same issue with Bitvise, and it started to work when I chose Elevation: Yes, in the Authentication-section of the Login-tab.
With PuTTY I kept getting fatal errors. After trying the ...
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