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IMPORTANT NEWS:
June 6, 2011:
Fiber Optic Starts in 2011!
Lighthouse has started our first fiber optic project to bring the Fastest Internet, Television and Digital Phone at affordable prices! Our first location is on Mackinac Island in Mackinac County. Watch for more news and more sites. If your community wants fiber, give us a call! .
Lighthouse is comitted to the EUP! The US leads the world in numbers of Windows PCs that are part of botnets, reveals a report.
More than 2.2 million US PCs were found to be part of botnets, networks of hijacked home computers, in the first six months of 2010, it said. Compiled by Microsoft, the research revealed that Brazil had the second highest level of infections at 550,000. Microsoft's research revealed that a botnet called Lethic sent out 56% of all botnet spam sent between March and June even though it was only on 8.3% of all known botnet IP addresses. "It's phenomenal the amount of grip that thing has," said Mr Evans. Evidence of how botnets were growing, he said, could be found in the number of infected machines Microsoft was freeing from the clutches of botnets.In the three months between April and June 2010, Microsoft cleaned up more than 6.5 million infections, he said, which is twice as much as the same period in 2009. He said people should sign up for automatic updates, make sure the applications they use are regularly patched, use anti-virus software and run a firewall. Microsoft has just issued its largest ever list of fixes for flaws in Windows, Internet Explorer and a range of other software.
Quoted from the BBC News
October 13, 2010:
2 Million US PC's Infected with "botnet" versions:
June 2, 2011:
New Wireless in Newberry!
Lighthouse has a new site in the Village of Newberry with High-speed Wireless service. This site will be upgraded and improved this summer to provide more coverage and higher speeds.
October 12, 2010:
Fiber to the Home in the EUP Update:
The ARRA Stimulus funding has ended and unfortunately, the Chippewa County Grant application for the EUP was not funded. Apparently, we are not rural or underserved in the eyes of those who chose where the money was spent. The one bright spot was the cooperation between Chippewa, Luce and Mackinac Counties and Lighthouse to put this grant together. It was a great step towards recognizing how dire the need is to bring improved services for the entire area. Lighthouse will continue to pursue opportunities and expand our network as funds allow. Thank you to everyone who supported this effort and those who support Lighthouse so that we can continue to work for improved services. If you have an area that needs fast internet, let us know and we will do our best to work with you!
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Important Notices:
Update to stop botnets:
Botnets operate in the background without any warning. They affect your computers operation and steal your personal information. Keep your OS up to date, run anti-virus, anti-malware and have a firewall on your system. If you have any questions we offer free support to our subscribers and our service depatment has discounted rates for subscribers. We can clean up your PC and get it up to date for you. Be smart and secure, keep your system updated!
Email Scams Continue:
Fake emails saying "delivery failure", change or update your infomation, warning of credit card, paypal, ebay and other account problems as well as those asking for information and requesting you click on links are a continuing problem for Internet users.
These emails are scams so please do not follow any of these links or pass along any information. As always please do not give information out over the net and if you have any questions, call us. We are here to help.
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