June
2002
Subject: Virus
Notices
Date: June 21th, 2002
Customers
may receive emails from CSInet stating someone has attempted
to send a virus. These viruses are removed at CSInet before
the email's are sent out and it's just a friendly reminder
that we are monitoring any virus activity before it effects
our customers. These emails that originally contained the
virus can be deleted.
We
still recommend our users to be protected my using an antivirus
program such as Norton Antivirus 2002 to keep your PC safe
from new viruses.
If
you have any questions email us @ noc@csinet.net
Subject: U.S.
asks court to decide on Net porn filters - Critics
say filters block legitimate material
Date: June 20th, 2002
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The
United States asked the Supreme Court Thursday to overturn
a federal court ruling that prohibits withholding money from
public libraries that don't install computer software to
block sexually explicit Web sites.
Click here for
the whole story.
Subject: Microsoft
spreads Nimda by accident
Date: June 17th, 2002
Microsoft, the
software giant, was said to have "accidentally" spread
the dangerous Nimda virus to Asia through infected versions
of its Visual Studio .NET. More.
Subject: Microsoft
haunted by three new flaws
Date: June 16th, 2002
Haunted
by the endless vulnerabilities
in its programs, Microsoft this Wednesday alerted for yet
three more. The flaws affect IIS 4.0 and 5.0; Windows NT
4.0, 2000 and XP; and the Microsoft SQLXML. With two of them
classified as Moderate and one as Critical, the software
giant urges users once again to download the available patches. More.
Subject: Low-risk
virus can infect photos - 'Potentially
no file type could be safe'
Date: June 13th, 2002
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A
new virus threatens to strike one of the Internet's most
common and useful activities: sharing family photos.
Click here for
the whole story.
Subject: Sprint
outage - 6/12/2002. 05:46 -> 06:35 CST
Date: June 12th, 2002
Sprint
was experiencing outages today at 5:46am through 6:35am
CST. Some of you may not have been able to view web pages
due to these outages. We apologize for any inconvenience
this may have caused.
Subject:
Web Server
Date: June 11th, 2002
We're
experiencing some technical difficulties with our web server.
Our technicians are investigating the problem.
Subject:
Intermittent Connection Issues
Date: June 7th, 2002
CSInet
is having intermittent connection issues. You may experience
problems that include verification of your username and
password. We are currently working on the situation and
hope to have everything back to normal shortly. This is
intermittent, so if you are having problems try again shortly.
We
are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
If
you have any questions email Noc@csinet.net
Subject: Users
alerted for serious Excel flaw
Date: June 5th, 2002
In
spite of efforts to convince consumers that it would clean
up its software lines, Microsoft's programs are still suffering
from several bugs. While the big winner is the Internet Explorer
browser and its endless vulnerabilities, other well-known
products are also affected by flaws. One example is the Office
member, Excel. More here.
Subject: Opera:
Flaw found, flaw fixed
Date: June 4th, 2002
GreyMagic
is alerting for a flaw in the Opera browser that has been
considered quite critical because it allows reading of any
local file. The company has been advised of the problem earlier
last month and has fixed it in a new version. More.
Subject: Windows
XP bug
Date: June 3rd, 2002
Microsoft
has discovered that if Windows Media Player for Windows
XP Home/Professional is in Pause mode, the computer may
not be able to get to Standby mode. Microsoft hasn't
discovered a fix. So far, the only workaround is to avoid
Pause to achieve Standby.
Subject: DirectX
9.0 Beta 1 released
Date: June 2nd, 2002
While
the press tries to spot products supporting Microsoft's future
DirectX 9.0 technology, the software giant is now releasing
the first beta version of the product itself. Microsoft announced
this Tuesday the beta version 1 of its DirectX 9.0 API, the
latest version of the company's suite of multimedia application
programming interfaces. More
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