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Abseil Challenge on 19 May 2012 - at Millgate House alongside Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard in aid of funds for the Rowans Hospice.

Kirsty Brown will be taking part in a 200ft charity Abseil Challenge on 19 May 2012, helping to raise funds for a local charity dedicated to improving the lives of people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. Established since 1994, the Rowans Hospice is located in Purbrook, Waterlooville, and has been instrumental in helping more than 7000 patients and families who have been affected by cancer. Their services extend across Portsmouth and South East Hampshire. The Rowans Hospice supply their worthwhile services free of charge, but each year they need to raise approximately £4 million. Every year fundraisers just like Kirsty Brown take up the reigns to do something to help be part of raising this much needed cash. The Rowans Hospice is a UK based charity. If you would like to help and offer your support, why not pop along to Kirstys Just 4 Giving Page and make a donation to help support this worthwhile cause To find out more about the Rowans Hospice who help people everyday who are suffering from cancer, please visit The Rowans Hospice website.

We have recently become aware that some users and friends who have hotmail email accounts have been subject to recent hacking issues. Once your hotmail account has been hacked, the persons responsible are then using your email account to send spam messages to your contact list. Sometimes they are also sending links within these messages designed to compromise the recipients computer if they are clicked on.

We strongly advise any one using Hotmail to make sure that they follow these sensible guidelines. Remember, if someone has hacked your email account, they now will have access to all your contact list and private emails or information. This should not be taken lightly and you should act quickly to restore a compromised hotmail account without delay.

Securing your account with a good password:

1. Make sure you choose a good strong password for your email account. Make it at least 8 characters long
2. Don't use your real name, username or a company name
3. Include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols
4. Don't use the SAME password for multiple accounts. If a hacker gets in using a password, the chances are they will try the same password on other accounts belonging to you.

Keeping your computer safe and secure:

1. Sometimes accounts can be hacked because you have not installed a good protective antivirus software. There are free and paid for alternatives available. Some free choices are:
   AVG Free
   Avast Free
   
   Paid for alternatives - Links go to Amazon Home Shopping
   Norton Internet Security
   Kaspersky Internet Security

If you account has been hacked, then go directly to Windows Hotmail and either try logging in using your username and password. If you can access your account, then go to password reset

Happy Christmas from 123 Simples Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2012. We have been working very hard to help make sure you are getting a really good service, and as we near the end of 2011, we would like to thank you all for your custom over the past year. We have some exciting new developments in store for 2012, and we will be contacting some individual clients about the continued development of their own specific websites. We also have been developing a secure dedicated client area which we are hoping we be ready to roll out in January 2012. Clients will be able to login and view their web hosting or web design packages they have with us, search a detailed knowledgebase of articles and help files we have been putting together.

Our web development team are always looking for ways to improve and build on the success of the 123 Simples ethos. We have looked at some of the web packages on offer and have decided to "Freeze Prices" this year to help not only existing customers, but new customers too.

But not only have we frozen prices as we come towards the end of 2011 but we have changed and UPGRADED some of the package features. Our hosting packages that have been changed are:

Starter Hosting -
Disk Space was 100MB - Now 300MB
Mailbox Limits was 50MB - Now 70MB

SmartPlus Hosting -
Disk Space was 250MB - Now 500MB
Mailbox Limits was 70MB - Now 80MB

Business Hosting -
Disk Space was 350MB - Now 1000MB
Mailbox Limits was 120MB - Now 150MB

Professional Hosting -
Disk Space was 600MB - Now 1.5GB
Mailbox Limits was 120MB - Now 150MB

If any existing customers would like to swap to the new packages, please contact us at 123 Simples

Fancy supporting The Help for Heroes campaign?

One of our clients is involved in rowing the River Thames in May 2012. The charity is fundraising money in support of Help for Heroes, a UK based charity. If you would like to help and offer your support, why not pop along to their website here: Paddling for pounds and make a donation to help support this worthwhile cause