07/17/2010: There Are Software Patches From All The Software Vendors. Microsoft Has Patches, Adobe Has "Acrobat" Patch # 9.3.3. Opera Web Browser Is Currently At 10.60, And Real Player Is At 12.0.0.879. Mozilla Firefox Is At Version 3.6.6. Please Make Sure To Get These Important Patches For Your Computer... -ECS Staff..
07/01/2010: Time Warner, Our ISP, Had Reported Problems. Said Problems Led To An Outage Of Epidemic Proportions, The Likes Of Which Have Never Been Seen In This Area. The Outage Originally Started On Friday, June 25th. TWC Has Been Aggresively Working To Correct The Problem, And Today, July 1st, 2010 Is The First Sign Things Are Coming Back. We Apologize For Any Inconvenience Caused By Changes Related To The TWC Network. Regards.... ECS Staff.
05/19/2010: There Are New Patches For All Vendors: Microsoft (Windows/Office ("Patch Tuesday"), Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2, Sun Java 6.u.20, Opera 10.53, Apple Quicktime 7.6.6. Real Player Is Now At 12.0.0.762. Mozilla FireFox At 3.6.3. Please Make Sure To Get These Important Patches For Your Computer... -ECS Staff.
02/24/2010: There Is A Patch For Adobe Acrobat, To Thwart The Latest Threats Posed. It Can Be Downloaded From Here: <..>... ECS Staff
02/20/2010: Patches From Many Software Vendors Have Been Issued For The Month Of February. Microsoft Has Patches For Their Operating Systems And Office Suites. Sun's Current Release Of Java Is 6.u.18. Adobe's Acrobat Is At Version 9.3.0. Mozilla Has A FireFox Update: 3.5.8. Apple's QuickTime Is At 7.65. Real Player Is At 12.0.0.343. Make Sure To Get These Important Patches For Your Computer... -ECS Staff.
12/17/2009: Happy Holidays To All Of Our Clients & Vendors. To All Of Our Friends In Banking, And To All Who Allow/Play A Part In Excell Computer Systems' Ability To Continue To Serve. As The Curtain Falls On 2009, We Join Everyone In Looking Towards A Prosperous New Year In 2010. Stay Safe On These Holidays, But Do Also Be Merry!!! - ECS Staff
12/17/2009: There Are Software Patches From All The Software Vendors - Microsoft (OS & Office Patches), Sun Java (6.u.17), Mozilla Firefox (3.0.16, 3.5.6), Apple QuickTime (7.6.5), RealPlayer (12.0.0.319), Adobe Flash Player Bug-Fixes For IE/FF/Opera. There Is Also A Bug In Adobe Acrobat, Which Won't Get Corrected This Year. The Work-Around Is To Disable Java Support From Within Acrobat Reader.
11/16/2009: TROJAN-ALERT!!!! VERIZON WIRELESS CUSTOMERS - Heads-Up! Fake 'Balance Checker" Is A Trojan!!
Read The Alert Here (Click To View).
PDF Is Archived Here: <Original Article>
ECS Continues To Stress Heightened Awareness Over The Next Several Days, While "Anti App" Vendors Build Signatures For This Threat --- ECS Staff.
09/14/2009: ALERT: NYTimes Readers! Fake AntiVirus Found On Their Site - Read About It Here:
NY Times warns of rogue antivirus on Web site
Robert McMillan September 14, 2009 (IDG News Service)
Online scammers have apparently found a new way to reach their marks: They've started running ads on the Web site of The New York Times. The newspaper warned readers Sunday that so-called rogue antivirus sellers had been spotted on its Web site, NYTimes.com.
PDFs Are Archived Here: <Original Article>, <Malware_Exposed>, <Malware_Flagged_1>, <Malware_Flagged_2>
Note To ECS Clients: The Latest Version Of Acrobat Reader Is 9.1.3. The Latest Version Of Mozilla FireFox Is 3.5.3. The Latest Version Of Sun Java Is 6.u.15. The Latest Version Of Opera Is 10.0. For Media Players: The Latest Version Of QuickTime Is 7.6.4. The Latest Version Of RealPlayer Is 11.1.3, And Windows Media Player Is: 11.0.5721.5268. Please Make Sure You Have These Latest Updates. IF YOU SUSPECT YOU'VE BEEN HIT, UN-PLUG YOUR ETHERNET CABLE AND CALL ECS ASAP! Time Is Of The Essence, And Can Make The Difference Between A Salvaged Machine And A Mandatory Rebuild. Thanks To Troy Davis, We Have Seen That The Malware Code That Was Discovered On The NYT Site Was Damaging-&-Destructive (Had It Not Been Stopped) As Evidenced In The <Malware> PDFs As Shown Above --- ECS Staff.
05/18/2009: Excell Computer Systems Has Noticed An Uptick In The Amount Of Malware/Spyware Infections For The Month Of April. As Always Practice Safe Computing Methods As Not Opening E-Mail From "People" You Don't Know, Don't Browse "Questionable" Web-Sites, And Keep Your Defense Shields Up. Your Defense Shields Should Include: A Firewall (Both A Hardware & Software One For Best Results), An Anti-VIRUS App, An Anti-SPYWARE/MALWARE App (Or An Anti-APP That Is A Good All-In-One(Covers All Types Of Threats)). In Addition, Make Use Of The Public, Free Offerings From Such Companies/Individuals As www.Malwarebytes.org, And There Is A Great VUNDO-FIXING Software At Atribune's Web-Site Stay Safe In '09!! - ECS Staff
03/04/2009: Judge Kicks Notorius Spammer Sanford Wallace Off Of Facebook. Now That Is An Interesting Read, Yet Very Un-Original: Spammers Going After Social Networking-Related Sites? Imagine That!!! --- ECS Staff
01/12/2009: There Are New Patches For The Products Stated Below - Firefox 2.0.0.20, Sun Java (6.u.11). ExcellCSI Recommends To Its Clients To Upgrade From Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.3 -To- 9.0.0, Along With The SpellingDictionary For 9.0.0. Please Let Us Know If You Need Help With These Patches. We Should Also Monitor The "W32.Downadup" Worm, As Symantec Has Rated This Risk Level "2", And Panda Software Has Changed Its Rating On This Worm To Risk Level "3". Practice SAFE COMPUTING; Keep Your Machine Up-To-Date!!! - ExcellCSI.com Staff
11/17/2008: There Are Software Patches From All The Software Vendors - Microsoft (OS & Office Patches), Mozilla Firefox (2.0.0.18), Sun Java Version (6.u.10), Adobe Acrobat (8.1.3) & Flash. It Is Recommended All ECS Clients Apply Patches. If You Need Assistance With This Process, Please Contact Us For More Details. Regards --- ECS Staff.
11/05/2008: Yesterday Was ELECTION DAY, 2008 - We Hope Every US Citizen Exercised Their Right To VOTE. The Security Landscape Continues To Be In A Constant State-of-Change... MAKE SURE Your Anti-Virus/Spyware Software Is Up-To-Date. In Addition, If You Do *NOT* Have A HARDWARE-Based "FIREWALL", Then Do Consider Implementing A SOFTWARE-BASED One. Get In Contact With Us For More Details --- ECS STAFF.
07/25/2008: Introducing A New Background For The "news.html" Page. This Is Easier On The Eyes. For The Most Part, ECS Has Been Busy Patching Client's Computers With The Latest Round Of Security-Related Updates. Not All Has Gone According To Plan (This Always Makes For A Challenge To Deal With). Be Sure & Keep Your Computers 100% Up-To-Date So You're Protected From The Bad Guys! ---- ECS Staff
07/24/2008: ANTI-SPAM-UPDATE: Almost 4 Years Of Jail Time For Robert Soloway. Another Spammer, Eddie Davidson (Recently Escaped From Prison) Commits Suicide & Kills Entire Family. Now That Is Something - To Quote Another Anti-Spammer, "I'd call that a permanent LART". We Concur.
04/18/2008: Excell Will Be Upgrading Our Accounting PC This Year. A Hard Drive Upgrade Is Planned. ECS Relies Solely On Western Digital Brand Hard Drives. You Can't Beat Them On Price/Performance! From 2000 Through 2008, We've Had No Hard Drive Crashes To Speak Of. That Doesn't Mean Hard Drives Don't Go Bad - We've Been Fortunate. So How Do You Know When A Hard Drive Is Going Bad And Is On The Brink Of Failing? It's Simple If You Know What To Listen For. Hard Drives Make An Audible Sound As They Start To Reach The End Of Their Lifespan. The Worse Off The Drive Gets, The More Audible The Sound Is. To The Uneducated End-User, They Might Write This Off As Fan Going Out. When Caught In Time, There Are Options. ECS Works With Each Of Our Clients To Assess The Impending Hard Drive Failure. Depending On Age Of The Machine, Costs Of Repair, Etc, We Advise Clients Accordingly. We Have Special Tools That Can Help Migrate OS (Operating System) And User Data From The Old Drive To The New One (Some Call This "Cloning", Others Call It "Imaging"). No Matter What It Is Called, You Can Be Sure You're In Good Hands With ECS And Western Digital! (PS: Be Sure To Back Up Your Data With WDC's Passport, The Portable Hard Drive Of Choice For ECS!!)
04/17/2008:
There Are Microsoft
Security Patches (Most Of These Are Automatically Installed If You Have
Automatic Updates Turned On), Sun Java Patches,
Mozilla FireFox
Patches
, And Apple
QuickTime Patches For April, 2008. Please Update Your Machines, Or Contact
Us For An Upgrade. These Are Very Important Security Updates To Help
Keep "The Bad Guys" Out Of Your Machine. Stay Safe In 2008!
03/31/2008: 2008, So Far, Has Turned Out To Be A Good Year For Nuking Spammers Off The Internet. First Off, We Have Robert Alan Soloway - You Can Read About Him Here And Another Article Here. Using Another's Computer Without Their Consent, To Do Anything, In Any Way, Shape Or Form, Is Theft. Plain And Simple - It Can't Be Spelled Any Different. Congrats On Taking Him Off The Internet. Let's Hope He Gets 20 Years For Spamming The Internet. Next Up, We Have Alan Ralsky. Anyone Who Is An Avid Spam-Fighter Knows What This Man (and His Name) Stand For. You Can Read Up On Alan Ralsky's Arrest Here. We Hope He Gets The Book Thrown At Him And His Cronies.
02/20/2008: PATCH TIME! Several PC-based Vendors Have Announced Critical Security Patches & Bug-Fixes For Their Products. The Vendors Are: Microsoft, Adobe, Sun, Mozilla, WinZip, and Skype. We Will Be Contacting Our Clients & Making Rounds To Get These Patches Deployed... - ECS Staff.
11/03/2007: US-Based Spammer Todd Moeller Gets 2 Years Jail Time For Sending Spam - Good Riddance !! - ECS Staff.
11/03/2007: Breaking News: Malware Targets Macintosh Computers ... The Old Adage Of "Because I'm On A Mac Means I Am Safe From Bad Guys" Is Coming To An End. With Apple's Computer Market Share Changing From 2% Of The Market To At Least 8% (And Counting), The Bad Guys Go After Them Also.
11/03/2007: There Is An Interesting Article On Daylight's Savings Time - You Can View It Here. Did You Know The Time Zones Were Initially Set Up Because Trains Started Crashing Into Each Other As Travel From The East Coast To The West Coast Became More Common? Read The Article, And Make Sure To Set Your Clocks Back An Hour On Sunday Morning. Also, ECS Was Featured In A Vendor's Product Upgrade. We Were An Early Adopter Of CMS's Product "XE-Filter" v2.0, And Installed It For Some Of Our Clients. Those Who Weren't Getting A Majority Of Spam Blocked Are Now Experiencing Increases Of 40%; Some Clients Have Decreased Their Spam Levels By 65 To 70% !!! - ECS Staff
09/29/2007: Excell Computer Systems Upgrades Its Network Infrastructure. A Gigabit Router Is On Order And And A Brand New E-Mail Server Is Up To Better Service ExcellCSI.com Employees And Its Clients. We Also Helped This Client With Moving Their Office To A New Location, And Setting Up A New File And E-Mail Server. And We All But Eliminated A Spam Problem For Another Client: 96% Blocked Currently !!
05/25/2007: Updated DNS-BL's (DNS Blacklists). We Have A 0% Tolerance For Spam And Boast A High Rejection Of Junk E-Mail. Added Some New DNS-BL's Accordingly. ECS To Our Clients: Helping To Defend YOUR Inbox!!
05/05/2007: Fixed Trend Micro Link On Virus News. It Had Stopped Working, Apparently Due To Changes At Trend. We Apologize For Any Inconvenience Caused. Also, By Popular Demand (From An Employee Of Excell's Largest Client), We Have Uploaded The Original InfoWorld Articles Which Show Excell Garnering Attention From InfoWorld's Millions Of Readers (Stop It, You're Making Us Blush! ;-)
URL Links To Articles (You Will Need Adobe Acrobat Reader To Open Them): INFOWORLD1.pdf, INFOWORLD2.pdf On These Links, You Will Read How ExcellCSI Introduced "FAT32 for Windows NT" To Brian Livingston And His Readers. The Advent Of Such A Sophisticated Product Meant Being Able To Put Off Windows NT Server Upgrades (At The Time, A Very Costly Thing To Do). The Second File Demonstrates That Contrary To Microsoft Statements, It Was Possible To Remove Internet Explorer From Windows 98. Why Would You Want To Do Such A Thing? Read The Article For Details. :)
05/04/2007: ExcellCSI.com Staff Have Been Busy Upgrading Client's Network Infrastructures. The First Thing To Note Is That Exchange 5.5 Is No Longer Supported By Microsoft. Neither Is Windows NT4 Server. Due To This, It Is Advised These Aging OS/Groupware Systems Get Upgraded A.S.A.P. At The Very Least, Be Sure To Put These Vulnerable Servers Behind A Firewall (Preferably A Hardware-Based Firewall If Possible)!! Also, Spam Sent Via E-Mail Continues To Be A Growing Problem. Spammer's Tactics Have Changed Over The Years. Which Means Your Existing SpamFilter May No Longer Be Adequate For Your Needs. Consult With ExcellCSI.com If This Is The Case. Please Note ExcellCSI.com Staff Have Been Very Busy With Anti-Spam Solutions For Some Of Our Clients - The Staff @ ExcellCSI.com.
11/03/2006: Corrected Grammatical Errors As Once Shown Below On May, 04th, 2005. Caught By: Us! Also Minor Cosmetic Changes To All Website URL'es - ECS Staff
11/03/2006: Here THEY GROW Again (Part II)! One Of Our Clients Needed More Space, And We Helped Them Move To The New Location This Week. As Always, We Are Glad To Help Our Clients Into "Bigger & Better" Buildings That Better Serve Their Needs. We Recently Helped Another Client Move - See Below.
10/31/2006: Here THEY GROW Again (Part I)! We Help One Of Our Clients Move To A New Location With More Than 2X More Space Than Their Old Location. At This Rate, They Hope This Will Sustain Their Business Over The Next 5 Years Or So. Growth Is Good, But Must Be Managed!
09/30/2006: Birthday Wishes & SpamFilter Update: We Participate In "Beta Testing" Of Vircom's Future Version Of "ModusGate". To Quote "Ash" From The Movie "Army Of Darkness": GROOVY!
06/30/2006: Due To Continued Bandwidth Needs, We Opted For A "Premium" Internet Package. Hopefully It Will Make The Web-Pages Load Faster...
04/06/2006: Corrected Invalid Link On Website. At This Time, We Want To Say "THANKS AGAIN" To Our Loyal Clients And Customers. It Is Our Goal To Keep ALL Clients And Customers Satisfied, While Bringing On NEW Clients And Customers As Well. - ECS Staff
03/09/2006: Corrected Bad URL Links On "news.html" File. Thanks To Those Who Pointed This Out - ECS Staff.
12/21/2005: Began To Prepare The New Web-Site. The Plan Is To Have It Up By The "Beginning Of Next Year". Sounds SO FAR Away!! The New Web-Site Will Have New Features, Plus A Huge Data Xfer Plan For The MP3/Xfer Problem.
06/27/2005: Began Helping One Of Our Clients, Greenline Corporation, Move Their Office And Computer System To A New Location. This Was A Project In And Of Itself, But We Were Up To It! What A Move!!
05/04/2005: "Gig-A-Bit Ethernet" Is Here! Excell Computer Systems Upgrades Its Internal Network In Charlotte, N.C. To "Gigabit Ethernet" (10X Faster Than 100-Base-T-Ethernet). The Network Is Now Cutting-Edge. ECS's Principal Owner Was Quoted As Saying, "This stuff is majorly fast! We transferred a 56mb file in about 05 seconds. This stuff rocks!" (not necessarily our choice-of-words, but we concur - the network is very fast internally)
12/08/2004: Updated Our Client-Referral Web-Site (websites.html). More Clients Are Listed Now.
10/11/2004: Here We GROW Again! Business Is Taking Off As We Take On 2 New CORPORATE Clients!!!. Also it should be noted that we had a chance to update the "WTC Tribute Page" Check it out!
12/04/2003: Added Links For Adobe Acrobat PDF Files to the ecsinthenews link.
11/11/2003: AOL USERS PLEASE NOTE: AOL will not accept e-mail from our domain. If you are AOL User you will need to obtain a free email account such as Yahoo or Hotmail to email us with. As a result of AOL's actions, we have blacklisted AOL as well. The feeling is mutual ;-)
09/19/2003: Since we've changed ISP's several times, we no longer have a "bandwidth" problem. We've re-opened the "WTC TRIBUTE" page. Note that some links external to our site may no longer be valid. 0911....... AMERICA REMEMBERS!!!
12/29/2002: Updated the Websites Link, To Show New Clients Added.
12/21/2002: Updated the WebSite with additions, such as the ECS In The News Page.
12/20/2002: Congratulations to our Client, GeniusBabies, on making Headlines at ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE, as well as the NEW YORK TIMES! All of GeniusBabies's Internal Computers are Built, Powered By, and Serviced by Excell Computer Systems. We are proud of how far GeniusBabies has come in such short amount of time, and are glad to be their Computer Hardware and Software Solutions Provider !!!
11/24/2002: Due to bandwidth limitations being imposed by our ISP, we have had to remove the WTC Tribute page and all its files. If you are looking for a song in particular, please e-mail us here. We apologize for the inconvenience.
11/29/2001: Congratulations to one of our Clients - Genius Babies, who appeared in the Winter 2001 Issue of Forbes Magazine! We are proud to say ECS is Their Complete Computer Solutions Provider !!! :-)
11/28/2001: Changed ISP's (Rather Quickly, And Without Notice). We apologize for any inconvenience caused. As our DNS changes propagate throughout the Internet, our web site should be reachable again.
10/11/2001: Set Up A Memorial Web Page As A Reminder Of The World Trade Center. Our Country Will Find Those Responsible, and deal with them accordingly.
