Mitch Cronin Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Anyone else having troubles collecting e-mail today? I'm getting a "connection refused" error and I'm wondering if it's something I've done, or is it them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Big blurb in the Toronto Star yesterday about all the trouble they are having with email. Apparently many of the virusus are replicating and causing an overload on the email servers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Cronin Posted October 19, 2003 Author Share Posted October 19, 2003 Thanks Kip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innuendo Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Telus has not been connecting for a while this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Cronin Posted October 19, 2003 Author Share Posted October 19, 2003 curiously... after a reboot to clear a snag with Norton getting hung while scanning an outbound e-mail, I can now recieve just fine. What strangely wild and wondrous things happen among all these one's and zero's, electrons, sound squeels and light signals! :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Here you go Mitch, the Sympatico press release. Sympatico clamps down on viruses, worms Subscribers 'quarantined' until computers cleaned Vito Pilieci The Ottawa Citizen Saturday, October 18, 2003 Bell Sympatico has suspended service to hundreds of Internet subscribers until they remove malicious programs that have been flooding Sympatico's network with millions of spam e-mails and viruses. Sympatico's 2.2 million subscribers have been told to clean up their computer systems or be quarantined. Sympatico started the drastic action early this week to help relieve its overloaded e-mail system. Representatives are phoning subscribers who appear to be infected and walking them through a process to rid their machines of viruses and worms. "One infected machine can pump out 200,000 messages in an hour," Peter Costanzo, director of product management for Sympatico, said yesterday. "It doesn't take many machines to really cause a problem for an Internet service provider." The country's largest Internet service provider has been sending e-mails and posting warnings on its website urging subscribers to check their systems for viruses, and has been recommending customers buy antivirus software. It said its e-mail systems have been bogged down with virus and junk e-mail messages that have delayed e-mail sent from or to Sympatico subscribers, or in some cases caused e-mail to be sent numerous times. "All providers are suffering the same thing here," Mr. Costanzo said. "Everybody's load increased and essentially it was taxing the mail servers." The situation stems from a lingering outbreak of viruses and worms that swept the Internet this summer. Mr. Costanzo said that on an average day, Sympatico handles 10 million e-mail messages, as many as six million of which are either spam or viruses. In August, Magma Communications' systems overloaded as the result of worms and viruses trying to connect to the company's network. Air Canada's systems also collapsed this summer for the same reason. Worms, such as the recent Welchia or Blaster, discreetly use a person's computer to propagate themselves on other systems or launch attacks creating a immense Internet traffic. Sympatico has installed virus filters on its e-mail servers to try and filter out junk mail and viruses. The company said the software is stopping as many as 500,000 e-mails daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Cronin Posted October 19, 2003 Author Share Posted October 19, 2003 Thanks Rob... Glad to be Nortonized! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PilotsWife Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Have you guys seen the new chilifish banner, you can have your own family email addresses without worrying about sympatico, rogers or the likes. Sounds like a great deal. JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Crow Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 I haven't had any probs since switching to SMTP8. (thanks Kip and others who suggested). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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