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TPG CLOSING DOMAIN REGISTRATION AND HOSTING SERVICE

Further to the draconian direction of TPG, I just now found that TPG and its affiliated domains are closing their Domain Registration and Hosting Service.

Please follow the links below for further information:

TPG LINK

https://support.tpg.com.au/domain-name-registry-transfer #:~:text=We%20will%20be%20closing%20our,will%20no%20longer%20be%20accessible.

IINET LINK

https://help.iinet.net.au/domain-name-registry-transfer

All businesses that are hosted by TPG or its associates are or maybe affected.

This affects many businesses and appropriate action needs to be taken seriously.

The closure of TPG Email Hosting Service is a different issue but just as important.

Please discuss with family, friend and associates if you know they are supported by TPG or associated ISP agencies .

Domain Name and Registry Transfer | TPG Support This article will answer some frequently asked questions about the closure of Domains & Hosting at TPG.

IINET SHUTTING DOWN GRAPEVINE EMAIL SERVICE

WEF 31 May 2023 the Grapevine email service will cease to operate.
All persons using that email facility will have to move to a new email service.

Examples of other services are Gmail, Live Mail, Hotmail. Other ISP dedicated addresses are also available where supported by them, such as Telstra (bigpond.com)

Those impacted by this change can follow the support links provided by IINET or request support via an email or phone call to me where I can assist in completing this migration with ease.

YET ANOTHER SCAM - BACKUP YOUR COMPUTER

Two days ago I was confronted with another phone call, “I’ve been scammed.”
Following the normal procedure of financial protection advice, I attended the client site to find they had been locked out of their computer by an old password program called “Syskey”
Without getting into the ramifications of this password lockout from your computer, the other factor that had been implemented to the SCAM was ALL the client’s data was missing.
The scammers had taken an image of the client’s computer, deleted ALL their data and was then waiting to be paid to restore that removed data.
Unfortunately the client had no backups, didn’t part with any money & lost all their personal files/data from the computer.

The computer was replaced, no data recovered either, irrespective of low level data recovery,

Again, PLEASE BACKUP YOUR COMPUTER DATA TO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE.

Yes, “I’m YELLING.”

Protect your information, backup to external hard drives.

Most of all, never let anyone remote into your computer, unless you know them personally.

BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP