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Virus Alert |
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Security Alert |
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Network Status |
In this section, you will find the latest security and network status information.
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Anti-Spam / Anti-Virus Firewall - Monday November 19, 2007 |
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Network Outage - Sunday January 29, 2006 |
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Network Outage - Saturday January 28, 2006 |
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ADSL Network maintenance Outage - Thursday November 24, 2005 |
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ADSL Network Outage - Wednesday October 12, 2005 |
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ADSL Network Upgrade Outage - Wednesday August 24, 2005 |
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ADSL Network Back Online - Monday June 13, 2005 |
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ADSL Network Back Online - Monday June 13, 2005 |
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ADSL Network Outage - Friday June 10, 2005 |
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Mass-Mailing Worm: W32.Sober.O@mm - Monday May 02, 2005 |
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Worm: W32.Sory.A - Wednesday March 30, 2005 |
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Mass-Mailing Worm: W32.Assiral@mm - Wednesday February 23, 2005 |
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Worm: W32.Bropia.R - Wednesday February 23, 2005 |
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Mydoom.AX@mm - Thursday February 17, 2005 |
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Erkez.D@mm - Tuesday December 14, 2004 |
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Sober.I@mm - Tuesday November 23, 2004 |
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Beagle.AV@mm - Wednesday November 17, 2004 |
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Mydoom.M@mm - Monday July 26, 2004 |
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Newsgroup Access - Tuesday July 06, 2004 |
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Modem hijacking - Wednesday June 09, 2004 |
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Fraudulent e-mail message - Thursday May 20, 2004 |
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Worm: W32.Sasser.Worm - Monday May 03, 2004 |
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Beagle@mm - Thursday March 04, 2004 |
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Netsky@mm - Thursday February 19, 2004 |
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Novarg.A@mm / W32.Mydoom.B@mm - Tuesday January 27, 2004 |
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Protect yourself from spoofed web sites - Wednesday December 31, 2003 |
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Security during the holiday season - Saturday December 20, 2003 |
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Mass-mailing worm: PayPal.com - Friday December 05, 2003 |
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Trojan horse Qhosts exploits IE flaw, patch available - Saturday October 04, 2003 |
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Swen worm: sometimes uses faked Microsoft e-mail - Saturday September 20, 2003 |
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Anti-Spam / Anti-Virus Firewall
Monday November 19, 2007
eSeeNet has adopted the Barracuda Spam Firewall to further reduce spam /
virus email activities. Email users may receive an automated email from the
spam firewall with login information to view and access your spam quarantine
message and preferences. The email will include a url to login and the url
will start with http://mailhub.lynx.net:8000/cgi-bin/index.cgi?user=......
Any quarantined message will be kept at most for 7 days if no action is
taken.
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Network Outage
Sunday January 29, 2006
On Sun 29 Jan from 9:50 pm - 11:10 pm. The Internet connectivity of our office was lost due to GT/Bell was trying to restore the original setting of their network.
1) Only dialup clients were affected as all of our servers were relocated to our Richmond data centre.
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Network Outage
Saturday January 28, 2006
The main cause of this outage was due to a power outage of a major GT/Bell Fiber POP in Downtown Vancouver, BC. This power outage affected our Internet VLAN configuration and thus created these network outages.
On Sat 28 Jan from 6:00 am - 2:30 pm. The Internet connectivity of our Broadway office was lost.
1) All ISP services were affected (except for web hosting client), ISP mail services were restored around 12pm.
2) 90% of ISP web hosting clients were not affected (as part of our servers were relocated to our Richmond data centre)
The issue on Saturday Jan28, 2006 were identified at 6am and we were working with GT/Bell network support centre afterwards.
Sorry for the inconveniences it caused.
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ADSL Network maintenance Outage
Thursday November 24, 2005
There will be an ADSL network maintenance and upgrade on Nov. 26/2005 to Nov. 27/2005, around
11:00pm - 11:00am. It might cause a netowrk outage during the upgrade process. Sorry for all
the inconvenience that has caused.
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ADSL Network Outage
Wednesday October 12, 2005
ADSL network is currently offline due to some hardware outage. The problem has been identified and working on at the moment. We apologize for the inconvenience that may have caused.
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ADSL Network Upgrade Outage
Wednesday August 24, 2005
There will be an ADSL network device upgrade with Telus on Aug. 27/2005, around
1:00am - 4:00am. It may cause a netowrk outage during the upgrade process. Sorry for all
the inconvenience that has caused.
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ADSL Network Back Online
Monday June 13, 2005
The ADSL service was back up on June 10 late afternoon. However, we noticed
there were still problem in some locations. On June 12, Telus is able to
identified the problem which originated from one of the OC-3 card that
interface into one of the virtual LAN of the network. The service is all up
at 7:10am June 13.
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ADSL Network Back Online
Monday June 13, 2005
The ADSL service was back up on June 10 late afternoon. However, we noticed
there were still problem in some locations. On June 12, Telus is able to
identified the problem which originated from one of the OC-3 card that
interface into one of the virtual LAN of the network. The service is all up
at 7:10am June 13.
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ADSL Network Outage
Friday June 10, 2005
Since 9 June 2005 early morning, ADSL service was affected.
It was due to network hardware upgrade carried out by our ADSL network
vendor with Telus during 2:00am - 5:00am. Due to many and complex circuits
change over, several Cisco ATM switches were locked out and all data traffic
were blocked. The engineering team is now working around the clock to fix
the problem. Up to this point (June 10, 9:30am), ADSL circuits in some
areas are back to normal however we noticed a majority of ADSL customers
still not getting any ADSL service. We will continue to update this section
when more information becomes available. We apologize for any inconvenience
it may has caused.
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Mass-Mailing Worm: W32.Sober.O@mm
Monday May 02, 2005
W32.Sober.O@mm is a mass-mailing worm that deliver itself with an email attachment to addresses gathered from the compromised computer.
It uses its own SMTP engine to spread out through the Internet. The email may be in either English or German.
When the file has been executed, an error pop-up windows will appear with the title [WinZip Self-Extractor]
and Body [Error: CRC not complete]. There are many different Subjects, Messages and Attachments from the e-mail, please go to Symantec's official website below
for more details.
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Worm: W32.Sory.A
Wednesday March 30, 2005
W32.Sory.A is a worm that spreads out through network shares and steals confidential information, it also known as [Worm.Win32.Soriw].
It affacts almost all Windows Operating Systems (Windowns 95 - XP).
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Mass-Mailing Worm: W32.Assiral@mm
Wednesday February 23, 2005
W32.Assiral@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends a copy of itself to email addresses gathered from a compromised computer.
Please beware of the email has the following characteristics: Subject: Re: LOV YA!, Attachments: LOVE_LETTER.TXT.exe, Message: Kindly read and reply to my LOVE LETTER in the attachments :-).
Please see detials from Symantec's website below.
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Worm: W32.Bropia.R
Wednesday February 23, 2005
W32.Bropia.R is a worm that drops a variant of W32.Spybot.Worm and spreads through MSN Messenger. Please beware,
if your receive a message in MSN messanger as follow: FROM: [random](E-mail Address Not Verified) says: MESSAGE: [link to viral file],
and display a drop down file img.jpg in the Internet Expleror.
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Mydoom.AX@mm
Thursday February 17, 2005
W32.Mydoom.AX@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses it own SMTP engine to send email to addresses that it gathers from the Windows Address Book on a compromised computer.
The text varies based on a number of options. One of each of the phrases or words in brackets, separated by a "|", will appear.
Beware of any attachments that have the .bat .cmd .com .exe .pif .scr .zip file extensions.
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Erkez.D@mm
Tuesday December 14, 2004
W32.Erkez.D@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the e-mail address from your address book. Once the computer had infected, the worn will keep
infect the other by sending e-mails. The worm may also attempt to lower the security settings, terminate processes, and open a backdoor on the compromised computer.
The title of the worm e-mail will be "CRC: 04F7Bh", with the message "Error in packed file!".
Please beware of the attachments with the htm, wab, txt, dbx, tbb, dsp, php, sht, adb, mbx, eml, pmr, fpt, inb.
The worm retrieves the email addresses from the Windows Address Book and from the files with those extensions.
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Sober.I@mm
Tuesday November 23, 2004
W32.Sober.I@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to spread by sending itself as an attachment email to the addresses gathered from the infected computer.
The subject of the email varies and will be in either English or German. The name of the email attachment will be varies, please beware of the attachments with bat, com, pif, .cr, or zip file extension.
Also, the attachments may have double extension. The virus is written in Microsoft Visual Basic programming language and is compressed with UPX.
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Beagle.AV@mm
Wednesday November 17, 2004
W32.Beagle.AV@mm is a mass-mailing worm that setups a backdoor program into the system to allow an attacker to connect to the computer and control to the network resources, spreads through file-sharing networks and open a backdoor on TCP port 81.
Please beware of the attachments with a .com, .cpl, .exe, or, .scr file extension. Attachments file names are Price, price, Joke.
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Mydoom.M@mm
Monday July 26, 2004
W32.Mydoom.M@mm is a mass-mailing worm that setups a tiny program (backdoor) into the system to allow an attacker to connect to the computer and control to the network resources. Please do not open any attachment with the file extension .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip.
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Newsgroup Access
Tuesday July 06, 2004
Our newsgroup server is temporarily offline due to a hardware failure. We are working on it to bring it back online. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Modem hijacking
Wednesday June 09, 2004
Recently we have been reported that some of our customers are getting the unexpected long distance charges on their phone bill.
These charges may be related to "modem hijacking". This can happen if the user is asked to do the following,
- download the unknown file, viewer or dialer into the computer
- accept certain Terms and Conditions
The file, viewer or dialer then runs automatically to the background of the system or behind the pop-up ads, and it will try to use the dialup modem to call the phone numbers in the foreign countries.
To prevent from "modem hijacking", the user please makes sure of the following,
- do not download any unknown files or answer any unexpected requests from the websites
- read the Terms and Conditions carefully
- update the anti-virus software and scan the whole system regularly
- remove any dialup connections from your computer that you do not familiar with
The problem can also affect the high-speed users if they have the dial-up connection in place. So, please disconnect the modem when not in use.
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Fraudulent e-mail message
Thursday May 20, 2004
Some subscribers have reported to us that they have received fraudulent emails apparently sent from Lynx regarding their email account. The email also includes a file attachment which contains virus. Please DO NOT open the attachment and discard the email immediately. We do not send file attachment in any case to our subscribers.
Please contact us at support@lynx.net or 604-638-1818 if you need further assistance.
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Worm: W32.Sasser.Worm
Monday May 03, 2004
Sasser is currently circulating on the Internet by exploiting a Microsoft Windows vulnerability on Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003. This self-executing worm does not spread via e-mail but it spreads by scanning a random IP address on the Internet and executing the viral code on the vulnerable systems. Please update your Windows, virus definition and enable the firewall on your systems.
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Beagle@mm
Thursday March 04, 2004
There has been a new virus circulating in the Net that fakes the email sender address. W32.Beagle@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP server to search for the e-mail addresses and spread out. Please notice that under no circumstances will LYNX send zip attachment to our users. Do not open any attachment if you have any doubt.
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Netsky@mm
Thursday February 19, 2004
W32.Netsky@mm is a mass-mailing worm that searches your hard drives for the email addresses when it runs, and it uses its own SMTP server to spread out.
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Mass-mailing worm: W32.Novarg.A@mm / W32.Mydoom.B@mm
Tuesday January 27, 2004
W32.Novarg.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that setups a tiny program (backdoor) into the system to allow an attacker to connect to the computer and control to the network resources. Please do not open any attachment with the file extension .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip.
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Protect yourself from spoofed web sites
Wednesday December 31, 2003
Spoofing is the techniques to send messages that are attributed to others or to hide the real identity by showing the identity of others. Read the following article from Microsoft to learn how to protect yourself from spoofing web sites.
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Security during the holiday season
Saturday December 20, 2003
During the holiday season, please do not open any attachment if you have doubt. Please refer to the link below from Microsoft to learn how to protect your PCs from different attacks.
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Mass-mailing worm: PayPal.com
Friday December 05, 2003
Some of our members may receive the emails with the subject line "PayPal.com". This is the virus named "W32.Mimail.I@mm" by Symantec Security Response. Please do not open any attachment on the email. Please also notice that we do not send any attachment to our members.
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Trojan horse Qhosts exploits IE flaw, patch available
Saturday October 04, 2003
Microsoft has identified a flaw in their Internet Explorer browser and have made a patch available. While not yet a serious threat, a trojan horse dubbed QHosts exploits this flaw. Users of Internet Explorer should apply the patch if they have not done so already.
Note: Microsoft states, "Earlier versions (of Internet Explorer) are not supported and may or may not be affected."
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Swen worm: sometimes uses faked Microsoft e-mail
Saturday September 20, 2003
A new worm W32/Swen@MM has been identified. This worm has
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