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Hitech
News – Second Edition – August 2006
All
the team at Hitech Support would like to thank you for your positive
response to our first newsletter released last month. We are proud that
the new website has received a record number of hits and that the new
services are being welcomed by our customers. Your
feedback
is always welcome and we look forward to keeping you up to date with the
most relevant technologies and issues, so feel free to send in your
opinions and questions – John Papoutsis.
New
Anti-Spam Approach
Some
of our customers have been complaining about an increase in SPAM over the
last 6 months. Their current SPAM filtering facilities seem to be
limited in functionality and are not very effective in reducing
SPAM. This is an important issue that needs to be addressed ASAP
because it exposes the company to security risks, lost productivity and
extra bandwidth expenditure.
We
have been testing a number of mid-level SPAM applications and appliances
and have found that the SonicWALL SPAM appliance reduces spam by a further
95% over existing SPAM filters. The SonicWALL appliance sends the user a
list of SPAM messages that have been blocked and the user gets the
opportunity to allow the mail to pass through or by default be
rejected.
Ask
us for more
details
New
Products Solutions and Technologies
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MDaemon v9 – ready to
be deployed
We
have finalised our testing of MDaemon v9.x and are now deploying it
to our client sites. The new version has improved SPAM
filtering capabilities and can potentially reduce SPAM by a further
50% of what is being allowed through with the previous v8.x version.
We are contacting all our customers and recommending that they
upgrade to the new version. As mentioned in our previous newsletter,
some of the improvements include content filter and anti-virus
processing improvements and the capability to process multiple
messages simultaneously rather than one at a time as in
previous versions.
Ask us for more
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New
Security Threats
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Malware growth in 2006
– What is malware?
Short
for malicious
software, it is a software designed specifically to
damage or disrupt a system, such as a virus
or a trojan
horse.
Stats
from three of the major anti-virus security vendors make clear the
trend: malware is growing. Although
virus rates themselves may be falling, trojans are growing at an
alarming rate the vendors said. Security vendor McAfee said it now
supports 200,000 threats with security updates, a jump of 100
percent within two years. In the first six months of 2006 alone,
McAfee added 32,000 new threats that it helps customers
thwart.
Ask us for more
details
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Handy
Tips
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Content Filtering
Appliances make it easy
More
and more businesses, schools, government agencies and libraries are
connecting to the Internet to meet their organisational and
educational goals. In doing so, they are faced with the need to
control access to inappropriate or objectionable web sites. Without
that control, businesses risk productivity losses, liability
exposure and misallocation of bandwidth due to non-productive web
surfing. Schools and libraries risk forfeiting their federal funding
unless they provide the right content filtering. Appliance devices
are now available to do this job. They are easy to implement and
Hitech is willing to provide free evaluations.
Ask us for more
details |
Next
Release
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Hitech’s real-time monitoring services
- Easy and
secure remote access
- The importance
of business grade internet services
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2 months to go: Hitech
Support is a Bronze Sponsor
for
the Civica National User Group Conference at Kingscliff, NSW
15 - 17 October 2006.
- 3 months to go:
Hitech
Support is a Silver Sponsor for the Local Government IT Conference
held at Coffs Harbour 14 - 17
November 2006. |
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