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The Communications Control Center (CCC) enables you to read your email from any standard internet connection, manage your account, setup autoresponders, control your email filters, and much, much more. It can be accessed from www.avvantamail.com.
Internet Security Reminder
Posted by admin on 10/19/09 at 12:19pm

With the latest phishing and virus emails making the rounds we are taking this opportunity to again remind all customers of Avvanta's account security policies.

  • We will never send you an unsolicited file attachment and ask you to open or run it.
  • We will never send you an unsolicited link to a web site asking you to visit it.
  • We will never ask for your personal account information. (unless we are replying to a request you initiated)
  • We will never ask for your password. (unless we are replying to a request you initiated)

If you ever receive an unsolicited email claiming to be from Avvanta that requests any personal or account information do not respond to that email, do not click any links within it and do not open any attachments that come with it.

Remember that it is never an imposition upon us to verify information you have received. If you are ever in doubt about the validity of an email please call or email Avvanta Support for verification.

Domain Registrar Slamming Notice
Posted by admin on 11/22/05 at 04:50pm
Registrar "slamming" is a term used to describe the fraudulent act of convincing the owner of a domain name to "renew" their domain registration. While the act of renewal itself is not fraudulent, the perpetrators do not adequately disclose the fact that the "renewal" is actually a Registrar Transfer. If you are the owner of a domain name be aware of the following tactics which may be used to trick you.
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New worm hours away, protect yourself now.
Posted by admin on 09/29/04 at 05:50pm
The first trojan-laden jpeg images designed to exploit the Microsoft GDI+JPEG vulnerability were seen propagating via Usenet newsgroup posts today. Although not itself a significant risk the existence of these trojan horse infected images indicate that it will not be much longer before a self-propagating worm/virus designed to exploit this vulnerability begins to spread via email.
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Virus Warning and a Reminder
Posted by admin on 07/26/04 at 11:56am
Yet another variant of the MyDoom worm is making the rounds. It claims to be from Avvanta support with an attached notice. Reminder: Avvanta will never send an attachment of any kind to your email address. If you ever receive an email claiming to be from Avvanta administration with an attachment do not open that attachment.
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W32/Sasser Worm - High Risk Alert
Posted by admin on 05/03/04 at 01:13pm
The W32/Sasser worm has been updated by Trend Micro and is now considered a High Risk threat to unpatched Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT machines. Unlike other recent worms this worm does not spread via email.
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Virus Warning -
Posted by admin on 03/03/04 at 10:26am
The newest worm making the rounds is W32/Bagle.J. This worm spoofs the "From" address to be from an administrative role account at your domain name. For example, users of Avvanta.com are receiving messages claiming to be "From" management@avvanta.com, staff@avvanta.com etc claiming that your email account will be inactive or that the servers will be unavailable. This is of course, not true.
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Security Notice - Email Worm (Sobig.F)
Posted by admin on 08/22/03 at 12:33pm
A virulent email worm began spreading earlier this week named Sobig.F.

On Friday, August 22nd Avvanta Online Services began filtering for this virus on all of our incoming mail servers. Filtering however is not a guarantee of safety. You are encouraged to install and/or update your Anti Virus Software to innoculate themselves from the threat of this worm.

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Security Notice - RPC Worm (W32.MSBlast / W32.LuvSan)
Posted by admin on 08/12/03 at 11:29am
On Monday August 11th a worm that exploits the Windows DCOM RPC vulnerability began to quickly spread over the internet. Unlike other recent worms, this worm does not spread via E-Mail. If you are running a vulnerable version of the Windows Operating System and connect to the internet you are vulnerable to infection.

The Microsoft Advisory for this vulnerability is MS03-026.

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