SYSTEMS UPDATE Vol. 23 No. 3 MAR/APR 2004 issue      

  1. DYNASTY TRAVEL AT HDB HUB

  2. SOPHOS NAMED SECURITY COMPANY OF THE YEAR

  3. 3COM SUPERSTACK 3 SWITCH 3200 FAMILY

  4. VIRUSES & HOAXES

  5. ABACUS TO MIGRATE TRAVEL AGENTS' LINK

  6. AN ANTI-SPAM END USER PERSPECTIVE

  7. REPORT WRITER TRAINING

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  1. DYNASTY TRAVEL AT HDB HUB

Dynasty Travel has expanded their operations and set up a branch office at HDB HUB (Toa Payoh).  It is a strategic location for Dynasty Travel as there is heavy human traffic around HDB HUB.  Their current headquarters are residing at Middle Road. Dynasty Travel has also invested on RATS Travel System Software running on the Linux environment.  It is the perfect choice for scalability. Mr Philip Sim, Managing Director of Dynasty Travel quoted, “The reason I chose RATS Travel System is that it gives me the accurate and detailed management reports that I wanted to manage my company well”.  We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Dynasty Travel on the opening of their Branch Office.

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  1. SOPHOS NAMED SECURITY COMPANY OF THE YEAR

Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against spam and viruses, today announced that it has been named as 2004 European Security Company of the Year by market consultants Frost & Sullivan. Presented each year to the company that has demonstrated excellence in the security market, the Frost & Sullivan Award for European Security Company of the Year is open to companies either founded or headquartered in Europe.  The award takes into account business development, competitive strategy, and customer service leadership as well as outstanding management, consistent growth, and high quality products and services.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0406/sophos.html

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  1. 3COM SUPERSTACK 3 SWITCH 3200 FAMILY

The 3Com Superstack 3 Switch 3200 family of 26- and 50-port models were recently released by 3Com. These switches offer layer 3 support including
- dynamic (RIP) routing
- improving performance by routing packets at the wiring closet
- simplifying deployment and management of the switch and
- enabling automatic reconfiguration due to topology changes

Enhanced security features include :
- IEEE 802.1X network login,
- Access Control Lists to insure only authorized network access and
- SSH encryption of management access

The two models are available for immediate delivery.

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  1. VIRUSES & HOAXES

Top ten viruses reported to Sophos in May 2004

Position Last
month
Virus Percentage of reports
1 New W32/Sasser

 
 51.1%
2 1 W32/Netsky-P

 
 11.7%
3 2 W32/Netsky-B

 
 4.1%
4 3 W32/Netsky-D

 
 3.8%
5 New W32/Netsky-Z

 
 3.4%
6 5 W32/Netsky-Q

 
 2.4%
7 4 W32/Netsky-C

 
 2.1%
8 New W32/Sober-G

 
 1.5%
9 New W32/Bagle-AA

 
 0.8%
10 New W32/Lovgate-V

 
 0.7%
Others 18.4%

The top ten hoaxes reported to Sophos during May 2004 are as follows:

         
  Position Hoax Percentage of reports  
  1 Hotmail Hoax 13.5%  
  2 Meninas da Playboy 11.1%  
  3 Bill Gates fortune 6.6%  
  4 Bonsai kitten 6.2%  
  5 A virtual card for you 5.0%  
  6 Budweiser frogs screensaver 4.9%  
  7 JDBGMGR 4.0%  
  8 WTC Survivor 3.9%  
  9 Jamie Bulger 3.3%  
  10 Spunkball 2.2%  
  Others   39.0%  

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0406/viruses.html

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  1. ABACUS TO MIGRATE TRAVEL AGENTS' LINK

Systems Design understands that in the not too distant future, Abacus will be migrating the travel agents’ links to IP VPN from the current gateway link at 9600 baud. What it means is that those Abacus PCs at the travel agents’ offices will need to be reconfigured to access the new link. This re-configuration will be done by Abacus or Abacus appointed third party.

The implication of this change is that many travel agents using Abacus PCs to access the RATS server for the back office applications will find that these PCs cannot sign into the RATS server after the re-configuration. As these applications are not part of the Abacus system, the cost to make the Abacus PCs work with the RATS system will not be borne by Abacus. For some travel agents, the implication is even greater because these Abacus PCs also access the Internet, E-mail, fax servers and printers for the in-house system.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0406/abacus.html

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  1. AN ANTI-SPAM END USER PERSPECTIVE

PureMessage is now used by Systems Design for filtering out spam. Below is the perspective from user after four weeks of usage.

The major difference is that now instead of 30 mails a day, I have about 12 mails a day. Of course, there are a couple of mails from the administrator indicating that these mails have been quarantined. I now have more time for other tasks.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0406/anti-spam.html

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  1. REPORT WRITER TRAINING

Systems Design recently held at end May ’04 a Report Writer Training class for Meditech users on the windows client server version. About twenty persons attended. It was a five half day class and the training was basically hands-on. The attendees had to do five programs – one program for each session. The programs covered extracting comment cases; listing of certain tests above critical values; using macros to do selection of tests; using macros to do sub-total and using physical address apart from field names to access data.

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