Midcoast Internet Solutions

System
News & Notices

March 2004

• March 22, 2004 10:00-10:30am. The server for www.midcoast.com had to be rebooted.
• March 22, 2004 9:00am. Both the Washington and Liberty numbers are not working due to a phone company problem. We don't know more details about the problem because calls to the phone company there will not go through either. 10:00am. This appears to be fixed now.
• March 18, 2004 5:55-6:15am. One of the midcoast.com email servers needed a reboot during this time. This affected mail checking during this time for some users. No mail was lost.
• March 16, 2004 midcoast.com email addresses starting with q,u,v,w,x,y, and z have been upgraded to newer server software which includes free anti-virus email scanning and better spam catching. The spam detection improvements involve using multiple blacklists that increase the score of email if it comes from a known infected source ip address of spam. This is important because a great deal of spam comes via insecure or virus infected computers on the internet that are exploited by spammers. This anti-virus software checks for more than 20,000 different viruses and is updated several times a day automatically. Other midcoast.com email addresses will receive these upgrades over the next few weeks.
• March 14, 2004 6:30-7:00pm. the server for midcoast.com website and email had to be rebooted. A drive was changed and it was started back up again. Email will be slow for a couple hours while data is being rebuilt.
• March 3, 2004 There is a virus going around that falsely claims to be from the midcoast.com staff, administration, management, noreply, or support. Infact any domain name with these words after is a virus. It uses a password protected zip file, which antivirus programs aren't stopping well. Midcoast.com did not send this. Trash the message and do not open the zip file.
• March 3, 2004 5:00 - 5:10am. The midcoast.com server will be down for a couple minutes for a reboot. This is necessary for installation of kernel security updates.
• March 2, 2004 10:00am There is an email delay which we are investigating. Noon - this is fixed now. It was caused by an unusual combination of virus and spam spreading customer computers that have been identified and fixed.