NetPoint Internet News

Posted by Scott

Update your definitions. A new worm that has been reported to Symantec has already reached category 3 in just one day. The Novarg.A/Mydoom@MM worm will show up in your inbox with an .EXE atachment that's 22k (22,528 bytes).

Posted by Craig

A new virus has surfaced on our virus scanners. "Bagle" appears to be a new variant of beagle and has been caught 95 times in the past 24 hours. 96 have been caught total. This virus, in only 24 hours, has made the Netpoint all-time top 30 viruses. It is the #1 virus in the past 24 hours. While Netpoint is catching these, we suggest everyone update their virus definitions on their systems soon. Especially if you use other mail besides your starpoint.net account.

Posted by Scott

We have seen a small incease in the number of Blaster infected users. This seems to be happening to a few new computers. You want to make sure your operating system is fully patched and your anti-virus is updated. Many new computers have been sitting on shelves or in warehouses for the last few months and are not secured against recent threats.

Posted by Joe

Did you get a new computer for Christmas? Well if you did, the computer most likely has Windows XP on it. You do not need that old Netpoint disk to get your Internet running again. All you need to do is follow these step-by-step instructions:

http://www.starpoint.net/help/Connections/winxp/

Posted by Scott

NORAD will be tracking Santa's route again this year. Get updates throughout the day on his current position at noradsanta.org.

http://www.noradsanta.org/