Over the past few years, computer viruses have progressed from rare curiosity to a persistent, worldwide problem – a problem that can cause real harm to your computers and your whole network.

If you are concerned about malicious software or an email-carried virus infecting your computer, Virus Filtering should be an integral part of your security precautions. Concentric(R) Web Site Hosting now offers a free, robust, and simple-to-administer tool to protect your computer from email viruses.

With Virus Filtering your inbound email is scanned before it reaches your inbox. It offers you many customization options to help manage your mail while protecting your inbox.

A user can find their anti-virus settings under My Email Settings in the Gateway and administrators can access their users’ settings under Control Panel | Manage Users… | View/Edit Users… | Virus Filtering Settings.

In the Virus Filtering interface you can modify Mail Delivery Options for three message types. Account administrators can modify this across their entire user base. The default when Virus Filtering is enabled is “Strip & Notify” for all three types of filtered messages.

Multiple Delivery Options:

• Allow: Do not remove virus and do not quarantine
• Strip & Notify: Removes virus and replaces with a text file
• Drop: Drops the message
• Quarantine: Sets up a quarantine folder and quarantines infected email

Configure Delivery Options for three types of filtered messages:

• Infected Attachment: Known virus
• Unscannable Attachment: Unable to determine if safe or infected. This is a common problem if the file is encrypted or of an unknown data type.
• Executable Attachment: Filter out all executable attachments

XO Virus Filtering is one step in effective protection against malicious email and computer viruses. See the Virus Filtering FAQs for specifics.

 

Concentric is happy to announce that osCommerce is now available as an application that can be installed into your account’s file space with just a few clicks. osCommerce is an online store and ecommerce solution developed and maintained by the open source community. It is an extremely feature rich, right “out-of-the-box” ecommerce application. Now store owners can set up, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no installation costs or license fees involved.

The new automated wizard makes installation of osCommerce and other tools into your UNIX® hosting account, with SSL and MySQL capabilities, quick and easy. In minutes you can install osCommerce into your account’s file space and be configuring your online store securely.

Some features of osCommerce include:

• Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure
• Template structure for design and layout
• Easy integration into an existing site
• Supports unlimited products and categories
• Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
• Multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default
• Multicurrency support to automatically update currency exchange rates
• Customers can maintain their accounts
• Accepts numerous offline and online payment processing options
• And much more…

You can see a quick overview about how it compares with our other ecommerce offerings in the previous newsletter. To install osCommerce for your account go to "Control Panel | Manage Site... | CGI Wizards" in the Gateway and select install next to osCommerce.

For more information, refer to the osCommerce site at http://www.oscommerce.com.

 

The File Manager is a browser-based file management system for quick and easy management of files and directories within your Web Site Hosting Account without FTP.

The File Manager has been recently updated with a look and feel that is similar to the usual client file system. File Manager has also been dramatically improved to give you much more functionality than ever before. Some of the new features include:

• Multiple file uploads to your online disk space.
• Automatic renaming of multiple file uploads and copies.
• One button clicks to make new folders and download files.
• Display the entire folder tree.
• Display the URL of Web viewable files.
• Edit text based files.

These new features usually take no more than a click or two to perform. While very easy to use, there is extensive documentation including FAQs and QuickTips throughout the feature.

 

Happy Holidays to each of you. While you are enjoying this holiday season with your friends and family your Web Site will be continuing to work for you. If you happen to need Web site support over this holiday season our customer support desk is always just a phone call away.

To make it easier for us to notify you of new features and innovative ways to use your web site please make sure the contact information is kept up to date. You can do this by going into your account and selecting “Account Billing Information” from the Control Panel drop down menu.

 

You can get your site’s reporting statistics emailed to you on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

If you, your CEO, or your Web site administrator are looking for an easy way to view site statistics, it doesn’t get much easier than opening an email.

First make sure logging is enabled on your site. To set up emailed statistics go to Manage Users | View/Edit Users… | Status Settings. Status Settings contains a list of users within your domain. Click-and-edit each user that requires emailed statistics (most don’t). While editing a user you will see a selection with radial buttons for Daily, weekly and monthly account statistics. Select “yes” and you are done. Repeat as necessary for other users within your domain.

 

We are interested in learning what innovative Web sites our customers have built using our services and how it has helped your business. If you have a new twist on an old feature; launched a successful marketing campaign; integrated some new functionality that your visitor’s liked; worked more productively with our email features; or, just want to recommend a new feature, we would like to hear from you.

In the next newsletter we will highlight an account that is doing innovative or just plain creative Web site work. The site mentioned will receive 3 free months of hosting along with the newsletter attention.

If you are interested in submitting your site, go to Gateway | Care | Contact Customer Care Form and send an email with Subject: “Publishing/Web Development”. Please include in the email:

• The site URL.
• A description of what you accomplished, e.g. starting a business, creating a cool family site, promoting a special interest, etc
• The features you used.

If your submission is going to be included in the next newsletter we will contact you.