Spyware, malware, hi-jackers and viruses (Definitions are at bottom of article) are all very prominent issues in today’s heavily computer dependant world. Just for simplicity’s sake, let us call all the different kinds of infections one term, “malware”. Symptoms of malware infections include, but are not limited to: popups, spam, internet slow downs, the inability to browse or surf the internet, general errors and stability problems, the inability to load the Windows operating system, general slow responsiveness of the computer, lockups and or crashes, the inability to reset the web browsers homepage or startpage, excessive toolbars and other web browser add-ons, unexplained software installations, the inability to remove certain software and many many more.

We have been made aware that a new virus is circulating. The virus states the following, or something very close.

Dear Dalton Member,

We have temporarily suspended your email account user@dalton.net.

This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address).
2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
3. An innability to accurately verify your selected option of subscription due to an internal error within our processors.

See the details to reactivate your Dalton account.

Sincerely,The Dalton Support Team

Please be aware that this is not from Internet@Dalton and should be deleted immediately.

Internet@Dalton is improving our E-Mail Spam Filter and Virus Filtering once again.

Internet@Dalton in moving all our @dalton.net customers away from Postini to a world class Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall on April the 25th. There is nothing that you as a customer will need to do except for possible checking your old Postini Quarantine mailbox for good messages before the move. If you would like to download a user’s guide to the new Filtering service you can do so by clicking on the following link.

Barracuda Users Guide

Internet@Dalton will be moving our physical location from 1100 East Walnut Ave to 209 West Emery Street, Suite C in Dalton Georgia. Internet@Dalton will be moving all Internet related equipment and service to our new location beginning at 11:30 pm on April the 29th and will be completed by 4:00 am on April the 30th. Beginning May the 2nd all business for Internet@Dalton and Morrison’s Computers will be conducted out of the new Building at 209 West Emery Street, Suite C. This move should have little impact on our customers as it is scheduled for a time when we feel most of you will be resting.

Our new facility will provide us with a greatly improved network infrastructure and Data Warehousing facility. The new Building has been built from the ground up to meet the unique needs of an ISP and Computer Hardware Dealer.

The new facility was built by a partnership between Internet@Dalton’s owners and the owners of A1 Lock, whose existing building will adjoin Internet@Dalton. This ownership has given us more flexibility in the layout and design of the building and will help us in our continued growth as we service the North Georgia Area.

We encourage all our Customers to stop by our new facility to get acquainted with our location and to see, what we feel, is a great new location.

For driving directions and a location map to our new store which is located at 209 West Emery Street (two building east of The Green Spot) please Click Here.

For those that are infected with the Beagle worm, use the following link to download the removal tool from Symantec (the makers of Norton Anti-Virus):

W32.Beagle@MM Removal Tool

It has come to our attention that some of our users are receiving email that appears to be from PayPal. The subject of this email is “Account issue” from the email address service@paypal.com. The body of the email links you to fake PayPal login page for you to enter your login and password. This fake PayPal login screen is very convincing; however, the address that appears in your browser’s address bar is not PayPal’s.

When logging into PayPal’s site, always make sure that the address reads: https://www.paypal.com. Any other address is not legitimate. You should always protect any financial or personal information on the Internet.

It has come to our attention that some of our users are receiving email that appears to be from Internet@Dalton. This email may detail various information about our service. Along with a message, this email has an attachment containing a virus. Once you open the attachment you will become infected with the virus. For information on this virus, please go here:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.k@mm.html

Internet@Dalton will never send you an attachment via email without advanced warning. As always, please use extreme caution when opening email attachments.

You may want to view information about virus protection here.

A new variant of the Mydoom worm, known as Mydoom.C (or Doomjuice), was detected on the Internet on February 9. Currently spreading to computers that were already infected with Mydoom.A, Mydoom.C causes computers to be used in attacks against other computers on the Internet. Infection by Mydoom.C can degrade both computer performance and network connections.

Please protect your computer. Click here to learn more.

ASN.1 Vulnerability Could Allow Code Execution (828028)
Issued: February 10, 2004
Version Number: 1.0

A new security bullitin from Microsoft recommends that you apply updates to Windows to prevent remote code execution.

This update is intended for these version of Windows:

Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT® Server 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000

For more information, pleace visit the Microsoft site, click here.

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