New Jewellers Shop in the Arcade

We are pleased to welcome new tenants to Shop 26, The Arcade. The window shows some really classy jewellery, hand bags, etc, and all the ladies on our staff are eagerly awaiting the opening! Ray White Beecroft sold the shop to the new owners and found these new tenants, and wish them all the very best of success.

Natasha's New Car

Property Management Staff Changes

Victoria Kohlhagen has left to have a baby. Natasha Guyatt has joined, after spending 4 years managing a large rent roll elsewhere in Sydney.

Property Management is Back on Line

After working through the Easter weekend, our expert at Maxcom Technology managed fully to recover Nicole's computer from the SMART Hard Disk Drive virus she picked up on 4 April (see the last blog). Not only that, but all the emails sent to her since 4 April have been backed up on our server and are now available to her. There are 100 emails, which she now has to handle, please give her a bit of slack!

For information, I talked with our main IT group, they say that the SMART virus is rampant, there is currently no anti-virus software that can protect you from it if you happen to access an infected web site. They say that in half the cases they have handled they have had to reformat the disk with loss of anything that wasn't backed up! So beware, internet shoppers!

The Hidden Cost of Internet Shopping

Our property officer Nicole must, as part of her duties, spend a lot of time on the internet searching for new or alternative products or services. Recently her computer was infected by the SMART Hard Disk Drive virus, and our IT specialist has spent several days trying to recover the computer and the information on it.

This virus has been around for several years, and apparently the most common method of being infected is by browsing infected internet sites. Clicking on links offering to ‘speed up your disk drive’ or similar links immediately loads the virus, but apparently in some cases these viruses are downloaded simply by visiting the perfectly normal and innocent but infected web site. And this virus totally shuts down your computer and won't let you even start using it.

Perhaps Myers and David Jones should stress this hidden cost of internet shopping!

Meanwhile Nicole will probably not be able to access any of her emails before the weekend. Our apologies if you were waiting for a response. Please phone the office, 9479 8444, or email me, peter.hewitt@raywhite.com, if it’s urgent.

Also note the office will be closed over the Easter break, call me (0417 215 774) if you need assistance over this period. Happy Easter to you all.