August

Newsletter

Issue 01

Welcome to our First Newsletter

 

Microsoft Expands Anti Piracy Policy

Its been an eventful month here at First Stop IT Limited.

Our new website has gone live, we have introduced a real-time server monitoring system for our contracted clients and today our newsletter rolls off the presses.

The newsletter and website are designed to inform our customers of the latest services and technology updates we offer. These products and services can improve our clients efficiency and offer a competitive advantage. We only offer solutions that have been fully tried and tested so our customers can be confident in their reliability.

We are very proud or our new real-time server monitoring system which has been deployed on all our contracted clients servers. It informs our engineers if there are any server problems so we know before our clients do.

Customers will receive regular reports to let them know the condition of their servers so they can relax in the knowledge that we are looking after them.

Please send me any feedback you have regarding our first newsletter.

Grant Peck - Technical Director

Microsoft Corp. is adopting more stringent controls for registering legitimate copies of its flagship Windows operating system in an effort to curtail piracy of its products worldwide, the world's largest software maker said on Tuesday.

Microsoft expanded its "Windows Genuine Advantage" program, requiring users of its software to verify their copies of software in order to receive add-ons to Windows XP..

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Communication is essential to any business

VoIP use on the up-and-up 

Voice communication is one of the main methods of business contact today. Consequently, reliability, business efficiency, ease of use, and low cost of ownership are the main criteria when choosing your voice communication system. Through the development of Voice systems businesses are constantly bombarded by technology. At First Stop IT we focus on your business needs and only when this is understood and agreed do we then apply the correct technology to provide you a true business voice solution. Contact us for more information

 

The use of internet telephony has doubled over the last year according to analysts at Point Topic.

Its research found that more than 11 million people around the world use a retail voice over IP (VoIP) service compared to five million a year ago. The numbers exclude PC-based "soft-client" services such as Skype.

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Spyware and Adware Threat to the Corporation

Spyware 'calling home' volumes soar

Spyware poses a significant threats to corporations such as:

Outbound spyware transmissions from infested machines accounted for up to eight per cent of total outbound web traffic in pilot tests of a new managed spyware screening service. UK web security firm ScanSafe said the volume of traffic observed during a 10-week pilot test of its Spyware Screening service showed that spyware applications are becoming stealthier in their ability to hide their outbound 'covert' channels among normal web traffic.

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92% of corporate IT managers at companies with more than 100 employees claim they have a "major" spyware problem.*

Nearly 60% of enterprise systems have unsolicited adware embedded on user computers. Detection and removal require specialized programs, because another insidious effect of spyware is that it installs itself very deeply in a system, sometimes creating thousands of registry entries.**

*Web@Work Study, March 2004
**Internetnews.com, June 2004

 

 

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