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Customers using BT Yahoo! Broadband may
find that they are now unable to send emails from Standard POP3
mailboxes. This is due to a security update by BT, who have today
announced that they are now preventing BT Yahoo! Broadband users
from sending emails from software such as Microsoft Outlook and
Thunderbird, when the "From" email address is not a
BT Yahoo! email address or a "validated alternative email
address".
Please refer to the BT
Yahoo! Service Status page for more details.
We would like to remind customers that we can provide "Roaming
SMTP" with Advanced and Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, enabling
you to send email using your PC software, regardless of your
broadband provider. Prices start from £20 per annum ex VAT.
You may have noticed an increase in the
levels of spam you receive. This is part of a global surge in
spam, largely caused by two trojans.
SecurityFocus.com reports: "experts agree
that an uncommon surge in spam is occurring. On the low side,
Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus, has found
that average spam volume has increased almost 30 percent for
its 35,000 clients in the last two months. Others have seen much
more significant jumps..."
We maintain up to date spam filters on advanced
accounts and are doing everything that we can to fight the current
surge in
spam. You can read more on the spam surge at:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11420
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2167728/image-spam-escalates
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=41704
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A recent update to Internet Explorer
may appear to break some websites that use:
Flash
Java
RealPlayer
ActiveX
Website visitors may be asked to click on such content before
they are able to use it.
All Internet Explorer users are affected by this update, which
is in response to a lawsuit brought by Eolas Technologies, holder
of a patent on embedded content in web pages. Both Microsoft and
Adobe/Macromedia have guides on how you can use JavaScript to
make your content work as intended:
Macromedia
Microsoft
If your website visitors use a non-Microsoft browser, such as
Firefox or Safari, they won’t be affected for the time being.
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