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EMAIL FRAUD We have received several reports of eis.net users getting the following fraudulent email this morning 27/8/2008 if you get the message don't respond it's juast a scam to get your username and password. We would never ask for that sort of thing in an email like that.
Dear: eis.net.au Users,
We are currently carrying-out a maintenance process to your eis.net.au account. To complete this process you must reply to this email immediately by entering your User Name here (*********),and password here (*********) if you are the rightful owner of this account.
This process we help us to fight against spam mails.Failure to summit your password will render your email address in-active from our database.
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your account at:http://webmail.eis.net.au/
NOTE: You will be send a password reset message in next seven (7) working days after undergoing this process for security reasons.
Thank you for using eis.net.au!
EIS.NET.AU SUPPORT TEAM.
SMALL OUTAGE
Expect a small half hour outage for some hosting customers 10:00pm 26/8/2008 as some equipment is relocated from the Riverside data centre.
POWER OUTAGE AT AAPT BRISBANE EXCHANGE
About 9am Thur 6nd. Dec. 2007 a UPS failure cut a fibre toptic link to the Riverside Center in Eagle Street housing the AAPT telephone exchange and the 3rd Party room for for most major ISP's in the Brisbane CBD where they house equipment for peering and IP Transit. This caused access to the Domain Name and Email Servers at 344 Queen street to be un-contactable for approx 55min. until power was restored.
VIRUS UPDATES
There are tens of thousands of nasty computer viruses out there now a days, mostly on Microsoft Windows which is by far the most common system people have, and it is always good to keep your virus software up to date on a daily basis. Here are a few links to Anti-virus software vendors to keep you abreast of the latest virus definitions.
- - Norton Anti-Virus Software
- - Vet Anti-Virus Software
- - Sophos Anti-Virus Software
- - McAfee Anti-Virus Software
- - AVG Anti-Virus Software Free for Windows