Internet users have been "flaming" others on Internet e-mail, news groups and in Chat lines for years. For those of you who are new to the Internet, "flaming" [as defined in Eric Raymond's Hacker's Dictionary] means posting messages "intended to insult and provoke". In other words, someone posts a message for others to read which insults and/or provokes readers against another person or company.

A plaintiff who sues for Libel must prove the publication is a false statement which injures one’s business or personal reputation and be able to demonstrate some type of resulting damage. This could include being shunned by friends and associates, inability to obtain work because potential employers believed the false accusations.

The monitoring of Libel and Slander is also a service Pretection International has conducted for big corporations. Shell gives a good example of a corporation where many false statements are being published on the Internet.

Dumping chemical waste, Threat livelihood of neighboring local communities in Nigeria due to environmental pollution, Shell representatives sell drug paraphernalia in neighborhood; All these (false) statements are published on the internet and definitely injures Shells business reputation.

Pretection can detect all information like defamation and Libel, positive and negative remarks about your company. This way the client knows exactly what is published on the Internet about it’s company and can take immediate action.