[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #516

MikesWhatsNews, 17, 06, 2002
in today's issue #516 
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne
Cool Ticker .8
FBI ACCUSED OF PASSING SECRETS TO U.S.
Microsoft Accidentally Distributes Virus
PacMan & Space Invaders
CT Stickies1.0
Tina's FrontPage Tips
CCC     Fresh Download
            Quicker Printing
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article, or story, on the linked site. Mike
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 Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne  -  beta 
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=23110&db=win
Help the Wizards restore balance to the world.
  
*** Rating; Teen  mild violence simulated blood

Awakened to join an immortal group of Wizards in the Circle of
Evermore, you must restore balance to a world on the brink of
collapse. Powerful spheres of magic are thrown against one another
in a war of Wizards the likes of which have never been seen
before. By mastering magical forces of creation and dealing with
the deities who govern them, you must establish a fantasy empire
and confront other Wizards in your quest to THE WIZARD'S THRONE. 
AGE OF WONDERS II is the sequel to the Award-Winning Age of
Wonders®. Delivering an invigorating mix of Empire Building,
Role-playing, and Warfare, AGE OF WONDERS II offers the ultimate
in fantasy turn-based strategy. Explore a world full of mythical
creatures and mysterious lands. Build an impressive force as an
all-powerful Wizard through dangerous perils and exhilarating
challenges. 
Now is your time to embrace your destiny and take your rightful
place at the head of the Circle, forever. 
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From; VersionTracker.com
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Cool Ticker .8 ~ Free
http://membres.lycos.fr/coolticker/
The ideal solution for centralizing display of information,
messages, alarms, schedules, notifications, monitoring alerts,
real time statistics. Unlike other applications, it does not open
pop-up windows that disturbs you when you are hard working on
Word/Excel or PhotoShop. 
It does not open multiple pop-up for each message. 
All is displayed into one of the 3 small display zones
(ScrollBoard, DashBoard, TipBoard/LogBoard). 
It's totally opened to third-party apps/add-ons and can receive
(TCP-IP, DDE) or retrieve (HTTP, POP3, Shared directory Files)
messages produced by local or networked applications.  
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 
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WNetEnumCachedPasswords Lock Patch

For Windows95, Windows98 & WindowsME
Microsoft Windows installs with a file called MPR.DLL (MPR
standing for Multiple Provider Route). While the functions of this
DLL are generally very useful, there is one exported function that
is not required and is of particular concern to the
security-conscious. Existing only in Windows95/98/ME versions of
mpr.dll (it was removed from Windows NT/2K for good reason), the
name of this exported function is WNetEnumCachedPasswords. It is
officially undocumented, but enough unofficial documentation has
been created so that trojan authors can easily call this DLL from
their own trojan - indeed, many popular trojans such as Sub7 have
taken advantage of this API for a long time, and even the safe
passdump.exe demo program that accompanies this patch uses this
unofficial documentation to call the function.
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FBI ACCUSED OF PASSING SECRETS TO U.S.
http://www.satirewire.com/news/june02/fbi.shtml
Washington, D.C. ? 
In an alarming breakdown of internal security, the U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation today was accused of passing
classified,
terrorism-related information to the United States.
From; Satire Wire
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Microsoft Accidentally Distributes Virus ~ By Robert Lemos 
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-935994.html
Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South
Korean developers, distributing Korean-language versions of Visual
Studio .Net that carried the virus, company representatives
acknowledged Friday. 
Microsoft's flagship developer tools picked up the digital pest
when a third-party company translated the program into Korean, a
Microsoft representative said. The representative stressed that no
other foreign-language versions of the program were found to be
infected. 

"Because the worm only infected the Korean version, we believe the
number of companies infected is small," the representative said,
adding that Microsoft released a patch last night. 

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant released Visual Studio
.Net in February, and the Korean version made it to market some
90 days ago, the representative said. 

Nimda started infecting computers last September and quickly
became an epidemic. However, since October, incidents of the worm
have dropped. 
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Submitted by; Christy
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CT Stickies1.0
http://camtech2000.net/Pages/Stickies.html
Win 59/98/ME/NT
CT Stickies is a sticky note application for your Windows desktop.

It allows you to create sticky notes and 'stick' them anywhere on
your desktop. 
You can customize your notes with a wide variety of background and
text colors.  
Notes are automatically saved.  
Great for appointments, email addresses. Urls, 
Computer notes (shortcuts, etc)  
Stickies will remember where you put them on your Desktop and can
be reloaded at startup.
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PacMan & Space Invaders !
 The genius of Paul Neaves has brought classic retro arcade games
like Pacman and Space Invaders to life again. Learn more at
Paul's site http://www.neave.com  (flash required)
thanks to; Christy
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Tina's FrontPage Tips, by Tina Clarke

The high life!

Place the cursor to the left of the first letter, hold down
the shift key and then place the cursor at the end of the
text you want to change and the whole text area will be
highlighted.

AccessFP ~ FrontPage Resource Centre
Site ~  http://www.accessfp.net/
Ezine & Forums ~ http://anyfrontpage.com/  FREE FP E-Books
Journal ~ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPJournal
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Christies Computer Corner thanks to Christy;
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Fresh Download
Freeware
http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Win 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP

Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager
software that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet,
such as your favorite software, mp3 files, video files, picture
collections, etc. Unlike any other
similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no
banners in the software, no spyware.

Be sure to also check out the other Fresh software!

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Quicker Printing
Usually, when you want to print something, you'll open the
program you created the file in, open the file, and select the
print button. Want to know a quicker way? Simply put a shortcut
to your printer on your desktop. Then just drag and drop a
document on it to print. The program will open the document and
it will send it to the printer.

Here's how to put a printer shortcut on your desktop:

 1. Open the My Computer icon on your desktop
 2. Open the Printers folder
 3. Drag your printer icon to the desktop. When asked if you want
to make a shortcut, select YES.

That's it. Simply navigate to where the document resides and drag
it to your printer icon.

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Antivirus software is a good choice to scan your system for
possible 
viruses, however no virus scanner is 100% effective as
manufactures
cannot keep up with the rapid change of viruses that happens
daily.
Be sure to update yours regularly.
http://www.hackfix.org/software/antivirus.html
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