NorthNet News

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NorthNet News
Issue 32
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NOVEMBER WINNER - The winner of NorthNet's Three Free Months Contest for the month of November was Susanna Stoffle of Glenfield.

The random drawing is held on the last day of each month and all residential NorthNet customers are eligible.

WORM ON THE LOOSE - There is a computer "worm" on the loose which travels as an email attachment. It has been given the name W32/Hybris.gen by McAfee and w32.hybris.gen by Norton. It is sent unknowingly by the infected user.

Play it safe: never, ever, open an email attachment other than a picture file. Also get a virus scanning program and keep it up to date.

Details about this worm are at: http://www.norton.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hybris.gen.html and http://vil.lycos.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98873

The infected email will present itself like this. It is safe to view this text part, just do not run the attachment which arrives with it.

Delete the message when you see it.
"From: Hahaha "
"Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!"
"Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a *huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the Seven Dwarfs enter..."

WEBFEST CONTEST - NorthNet's first ever Webfest Contest is underway, and there is still plenty of time for Northern New York high schools to join in.

Some comments made so far by participating schools are: Madrid-Waddington:
"It will give our school more money for the computer lab and more recognition, and may help get me and my friend's name out around the computer industry and could help us in life."

Harrisville:
"We just wanted to have a little fun. The project will also count as a grade in our computer class. We thought that it would be a great idea and will help with a project grade."

Remember, the First Place Prize is $5,000 cash, Second Place is a certificate valued at $2,500 for a computer system, and Third Place is a computer zip drive and one dozen zip discs. All prizes will go to the high school of the winning teams.

To sign up for the contest and to read all the specifics, go to NorthNet's homepage at www.northnet.org The contest deadline is March 2001, so get your team together and enter today!

YOUR THOUGHTS - As the year 2000 draws to a close and NorthNet prepares to begin its ninth year of service, we would like to know what you think of our business.

We would appreciate it if you, our customers, would take a moment to answer a few questions. We would like to know how you feel about the following:
- The service you receive from NorthNet
- Information available on our website (www.northnet.org)
- Your Internet connection
- The cost of NorthNet's service
- The availability of toll-free technical support, 7-days a week
- Contests (ie. Three Free Months) and Programs (ie. Friends Referral) we provide
- Any other area you would care to comment on

We at NorthNet want to make sure we continue to serve the needs of our customers, and your opinions on these questions really matter to us. Please send your comments to: pouimet@northnet.org

MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS LOG-INS - We want to remind all our customers that NorthNet permits only one instance of your account to be logged on at any one time. This has always been our policy (see http://www.northnet.org/northnet/hterms.html )

Customers who persistently have multiple simultaneous log-ins will be notified and given the opportunity to purchase additional accounts.

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE - Please note the days when NorthNet will be closed or have modified business hours in observance of the upcoming holidays.

- NorthNet will be closed for a few hours during the afternoon of Dec. 21 so the staff may have their Christmas luncheon.
- NorthNet will close at 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The office will be closed on Christmas Day.
- NorthNet will close at 5 p.m. on New Year's Eve. The office will be open on New Year's Day.

LEARN FROM THE NET - Personal Computing Columnist Reid Goldsborough has some tips where you can turn to on the Internet to learn about the Internet.

"Learn the Net, at www.learnthenet.com/english, includes a wealth of basic information about business topics such as e-commerce, along with more general topics such as e-mail, Web surfing, and multimedia."

-Reprinted from "The Central New York Business Journal"-

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