Legend news archive.
Net speed record smashed
posted by Mark Harwood on 12:11 06/03/2003
Scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute
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Big changes at Legend
posted by Mark Harwood on 14:13 28/02/2003
Customers might be aware that over the last few weeks our premises at Sunbridge Road have been undergoing major building work.
During the Summer we purchased the two adjoining buildings and began in earnest re-developing the site at the begining of November.
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ADSL OFFER
posted by Mark Harwood on 11:28 13/02/2003
We launch the new year with a special offer of free activation on all self install ADSL packages(saving you £50), and half price installation on all engineer installed ethernet products - ie £130, reduced from £260.
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Broadband Over Power Lines?
posted by Mark Harwood on 16:13 11/02/2003
Coming to a home or office near you could be an electric Internet: high-speed Web access via ubiquitous power lines, of all things, making every electrical outlet an always-on Web connection.
If it sounds shocking, consider this: St. Louis-based Ameren and other utilities already are ... more
Virus Alert
posted by Steve Wilson on 13:41 13/01/2003
The virus I-worm.Sobig is currently being reported as a growing threat. Whilst we have been able to obtain updates to our antivirus scanners, there was a 2 hour window this morning when the virus could have been delivered to your inbox. For further information on the virus, and how to remove it, ... more
Big changes at Legend
posted by Chris Noon on 13:47 12/12/2002
Customers might be aware that over the last 6 - 8 weeks our premises at Sunbridge Road have been undergoing major building work.
During the Summer we purchased the two adjoining buildings and began in earnest re-developing the site at the begining of November.
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Improved email scanning
posted by Chris Noon on 14:02 06/12/2002
As a special advance Christmas gift, we have recently upgraded our servers that tirelessly virus scan every incoming email that our customers receive.
As a result of this upgrade, as of Monday 9th Decenber we will be scanning all outgoing mail as well.
This will give you some extra ... more
Computer virus insults victims
posted by Mark Harwood on 15:03 28/11/2002
Security experts are warning computer users to be on the look-out for an insulting worm that can serious harm a PC.
Known as Winevar, the worm is spreading via e-mail as an attachment that infects computers running Windows.
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Blair pledges to kick-start broadband
posted by Mark Harwood on 11:11 20/11/2002
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised to give every school, university, hospital and doctors' surgery a high-speed link to the internet.
At present many public services connect to the web through a telephone line, but the government wants more access to the broadband connections. ... more
Parents alerted to safe surfing benefits
posted by Mark Harwood on 10:55 12/11/2002
Parents are being targeted in a renewed campaign to try to stop children accessing unsuitable material on the internet.
The move follows a survey which found that 70% of youngsters over the age of 10 had online access at home - and a quarter had seen potentially harmful material.
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FBI probe attack on net
posted by Mark Harwood on 14:10 23/10/2002
The FBI has launched an investigation into a failed attempt to cripple the internet by attacking its central address books.
Steven Berry, a supervisory special agent at the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center said it was "aware of the issue and was addressing it".
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More Bugs than the back garden
posted by Mark Harwood on 14:03 23/10/2002
Nine closely-related Internet Explorer flaws leave users open to a variety of powerful attacks, security researchers at Israeli firm GreyMagic Software warned yesterday.
The vulnerabilities revolve around object caching and a combination could enable an attacker to steal private local ... more
Legend Email Blocks Bugbear!
posted by Mark Harwood on 13:32 04/10/2002
The Bugbear e-mail virus is still going strong and could have infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide.
Estimates of the damage the virus has done are difficult to make. One anti-virus firm MessageLabs has reported 60,000 copies so far.
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Broadband 'taking off in the UK'
posted by Mark Harwood on 13:00 03/10/2002
More and more Britons are signing up for high speed internet access, although the UK is still lagging behind other countries, says a study.
Broadband in the UK is growing faster than in France and Germany, according to research by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development due out ... more
New glitch hits online tax returns
posted by Mark Harwood on 16:11 26/09/2002
The Inland Revenue's internet filing system has been hit by a new hiccup.
The system cannot cope with demand and is blocking people from filing online at certain times of the day.
The Revenue has now advised people not to use the self assessment internet service between 7pm and ... more
Greece lifts computer games ban
posted by Mark Harwood on 16:08 26/09/2002
Greece's ban on playing computer games appears to have been lifted.
According to an article in the English language Greek newspaper Kathimerini, the Government has sought to clarify a poorly worded law designed to crack down on electronic gambling.
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Microsoft Admits Bog Standard Security
posted by Mark Harwood on 13:04 09/09/2002
"We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security," said Brian Valentine, senior vice-president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development at the Microsoft Windows Server .net developer conference in Seattle, USA.
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Linux goes from strength to strength
posted by Mark Harwood on 09:00 15/08/2002
Since Linux made its first appearance 11 years ago the operating system has gone from strength to strength and now has a huge influence on the technology world.
Its open model of sharing the core instructions of computer code, its insistence on good programming work, peer review and ... more
Saving memories of the dot.com era
posted by Mark Harwood on 09:26 26/07/2002
The dot.com world went from boom to bust in the space of a few short years but the impact it made still continues to be felt.
While few people regard the internet gold rush as one that has much of real value to offer these days, an American archive project views things differently and claims ... more
BBC Launch Landmark Website
posted by Mark Harwood on 10:11 22/07/2002
The launch of BBCUrdu.com is a landmark in online publishing as it is the first news site to use Urdu text, rather than scanned-in images of printed materials. Jon Wurtzel of the development team looks at the technical and editorial hurdles in producing the site.
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'No limits' browser planned
posted by Mark Harwood on 09:54 16/07/2002
The music industry, the film industry, the police and repressive governments have a new nightmare.
A group of hackers are developing a web browser that it claims will make it easier for people to circumvent censorship and avoid the attentions of law enforcers.
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Net users seek first and surf later
posted by Mark Harwood on 15:06 05/07/2002
Finding information via net search engines is rapidly becoming the most popular activity for people going online.
Search engines are becoming hugely important to the online and offline lives of many net users, according to a survey released this week.
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The week in review: Microsoft in Sun's shadow?
posted by Mark Harwood on 12:38 24/06/2002
Sun Microsystems this week won a key Java battle and is making waves in the Web services world with a new strategy: free software.
Rival Microsoft said it will reinstate the ability to run Java programs in Windows XP. The reinstatement is a partial victory for Sun, which was stunned in April ... more
KPNQwest\'s network could close
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 04:55 10/06/2002
Europe\'s largest fibre-optic data network, which is owned by bankrupt KPNQwest, could be forced to close down on Tuesday.
KPNQwest\'s administrators have set a Monday night deadline for the firm\'s trustees to raise enough cash from its customers to keep the network running.
Klez: Hi Mom, We're No. 1
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 10:21 31/05/2002
It's official. Klez is the most virulent e-mail virus of all time.
For close to a year, SirCam was the virus most likely to turn up in your e-mail box. But representatives from a half-dozen antivirus firms now believe that "Klez.H" is the most pervasive e-mail virus in cyberhistory, ... more
UK lags behind on broadband
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 10:14 31/05/2002
The UK is still one of the worst places for broadband in the world, despite falling prices for high-speed internet access.
A report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) puts the UK at number 22 out of the 30 richest nations for broadband take-up. ... more
Come on England!
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 04:42 31/05/2002
All of us at Legend would like to wish England the best of luck in the World Cup 2002!
For those of us not lucky enough to get over to Japan and South Korea to view tha games in person, here's a handy list of all the fixtures and which channel you can watch them on:
GROUP A ... more
Legend newsletter
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 12:16 08/03/2002
Welcome to legend newsletter #1.
Stressed out? Shoot someone!
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 15:45 06/02/2002
Thanks to Merlin, those lovable geeks who make up the Legend user-group, you can now play Counterstrike or Return To Castle Wolfenstein on a brand new games-server hosted directly on our backbone (and we've donated enough bandwidth to ensure Legend users get as low a ping and as good a game as ... more
"my party" virus alert
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 11:18 29/01/2002
A new email virus has being detected in the last few hours which arrives with a subject similar to "new photos from my party!". We are pleased to confirm that our Anti-Virus Mail System was preventing our users from receiving this virus shortly after it was discovered. Amongst other undesirable ... more
new: incoming SMTP feed virus filtering available!
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 12:16 17/01/2002
Legend are proud to announce that as our email anti-virus system continues to improve, we are now able to offer virus-checking of incoming SMTP feeds. This is a huge step in ensuring all our users are protected from malicious viruses and brings this protection to users who receive their email via ... more
New online Virus reports !
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 16:25 27/11/2001
At Legend Internet our mail servers tirelessly virus scan every incoming email that our customers receive. Now you can easily see our vital email statistics, what the next big virus threat will be and how many infected emails we prevented our users from receiving by checking out today's virus ... more
Virus Alert
posted by Steve Wilson on 15:08 27/11/2001
I-Worm.Badtransll is currently spreading at an increased rate: the worm uses a MAPI mailer to send itself to recipients in an infected machine's address book, and has a keystroke logging trojan which can be used to steal passwords, credit card numbers etc. All Legend email is virus scanned, however ... more
Steven Spencer's Oh Britannia!
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 11:28 07/09/2001
Legend Internet's graphic designer recently held a photographic exhibition in Little Germany, Bradford, showing the culmination of half a decade's work photographing the visitors of a now demolished Bradford cafe. His work has now been preserved on the BBC's website enabling anyone in the world to ... more
Legend Goodies
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 10:29 07/09/2001
Whether you're in need of a new desktop background or even a new icon set, why not go to our goodies section and download the Legend Theme.
.biz and .info domains
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 16:11 06/09/2001
At last the long awaited new domain extensions .biz and .info are now available to pre-register until 25th September 2001. The official launch of the domains is scheduled to be 1st October 2001, although this may change to November 2001.
How ADSL Works?
posted by Neil S. Whitaker on 09:19 05/09/2001
Have you ever wondered how ADSL works, and why it's so much faster than a standard Dial-up Modem? Well, Legend have put together a little information about ADSL for you.
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