[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #540

MikesWhatsNews, 22, 07, 2002
in today's issue #540
Freelists News~ SPAM prevention changes
Provide feedback on the next version of pcAnywhere
America's Army: Operations - Game Demo
Worst-Case Scenarios Online
Disk Investigator v1.1
The Bat! - Version 1.61
602Pro PC SUITE - New build released
Tina's FrontPage Tips
CCC   Screen Saver
        Random Tagline Manager v4.5.1   
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NOTE: Any time you see the "  ++ ",  it means there is more 
          of the article, or story, on the linked site. Mike
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Sorry for the delay, I took a beautiful sunny day off to take 
kids from a summer burn camp for motorcycle rides. 
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Freelists News~ SPAM prevention changes
Effective immediately, FreeLists will be making use of the 
Spamhaus (http://www.spamhaus.org) SBL, a list of known 
"SPAM gangs," who supposedly account for 90% of North 
American and European SPAM.

This particular service should not affect anyone sending mail 
from a legitimate email host.  Depending on the outcome of this 
change, however, we may need to participate in other block lists 
which may block mail from slightly more legitimate mail hosts.

In recent months, these SPAM b***ards have gotten much 
worse; it's time we're part of the solution instead of a member 
of the herd that ignores the problem.

Thanks,
  John
- FreeLists Staff

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Provide feedback on the next version of pcAnywhere

The pcAnywhere development team wants to hear from you.

We will be previewing some ideas for future versions of 
pcAnywhere in two online presentations on Thursday, 
July 25, at 8 A.M. PST/11 A.M. EST and again at 
1 P.M. PST/4 P.M. EST.

These webcasts will provide a preview of some of the ideas 
that we are considering for the next release of pcAnywhere, 
currently in the early stages of development. Throughout the 
presentation, you'll be given the opportunity to vote on new 
feature ideas and new user interface concepts. We will also 
take your questions online during the presentation.

pcAnywhere 11.0 will be a very important release with many 
new features designed to help you quickly resolve helpdesk 
and server problems, as well as providing best-of-breed 
remote control, file transfer and new remote management 
capabilities. We are also completely revamping our user 
interface for the first time since we made the move to 
Windows 95 many years ago.

This is a great opportunity to provide comments to the 
development team to ensure that future versions of 
pcAnywhere continue to meet your needs.

Don't delay! Register now to either attend the presentation 
or receive notification when the archived webcast is available.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/techsupp/vURL.cgi/pca78
From; Symantec
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America's Army: Operations - Game Demo
http://shareware.lycos.com/games/demo/preview/275063.shtml
Created by the U.S. Army as a recruiting tool, this game offers 
unprecedented attention to detail, as the game portrays actual 
Army conditions and situations in a 3D gaming environment. 
It is a cross between Ghost Recon or Operation Flashpoint 
with much attention paid to recreating the Army experience 
down to weapons, physics and even the Army's core values. 
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Worst-Case Scenarios Online: 
worstcasescenarios.com. 
As with our successful series of books, the principle behind this
site 
is a simple one:

You just never know. 

 Survive If Your Parachute Fails to Open
 Make Fire Without Matches
 Avoid Being Struck by Lightning
 Land a Plane
 Escape from a Sinking Car
 Fend Off a Shark
 Wrestle Free from an Alligator
 Use a Defibrillator to Restore a Heartbeat 
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Disk Investigator v1.1 ~ freeware
http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html
- Discover all that is hidden on your hard disk -
- (for Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP) - 
What is Disk Investigator? - 
Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your

computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data. 
Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating 
system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and 
search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. 
Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. 
Undelete previously deleted files.
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The Bat! - Version 1.61 (15-Jul-2002) EMAL program
http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/ 
The Bat! is a powerful, highly configurable, yet easy to use email
client. 
We've designed it especially to help you deal with your growing 
volume of email as quickly and efficiently as possible, saving 
much of your precious time. Use all its powerful features at 
home or at the office to handle your email naturally - the way 
you want and how you want, simply and directly. 

Support for an unlimited number of accounts and users 
Fully customizable message templates that save hours of 
typing 
Powerful filtering for automated message handling 
Support for S/MIME and PGP versions from 2.6x through 6.5 
Mail Dispatcher for managing email on remote servers 
Simultaneous mail processing in the background for all accounts 
Familiar Explorer-style folders for organizing messages 
Easily configurable user interface with message preview option 
Built-in HTML email viewer and message editor with 
spell-as-you-go 
Sophisticated address book for storing all personal information 
Unique Mail Ticker? for email notification 
Multi-lingual interface supporting 15 languages on the fly 
Import message bases from all major email clients 
Many more features for managing email quickly and easily... 
 

Try The Bat! 1.61 today free for 30-days and discover for 
yourself its many powerful, yet user-friendly features!

The Bat! is invulnerable to KLEZ, an email worm that does 
not require the email receiver to open the attachment for it
to execute. It uses a known vulnerability in Internet Explorer-
based email clients (Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook 
Express) to execute the file attachment automatically. 
This is also known as Automatic Execution of Embedded 
MIME type. The Bat! is very well-protected against viruses 
and worms that spread via email. The Bat! doesn't use the 
Windows address book and Windows-dependent HTML viewer, 
which have been the targets of many recent attacks. 
The Bat! warns the user before opening suspicious 
attachments or even blocks them completely.
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602Pro PC SUITE - New build released
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A new build of 602Pro PC SUITE was released on July 9th. Read the
complete 
release notes here:

http://support.software602.com/products/pcs2001/releasenotes.asp

The new release is FREE for commercial and non-commercial use. 
Download your copy here:

http://download.com.com/3002-2064-7241521.html

Software602 on the move
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We have successfully moved to our new location. 
This provides us with a better opportunity for expansion. 
Our new address and phone numbers can be found here:

http://www.software602.com/company/contactus.html
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includes FREE PC SUITE and LAN SUITE (5 user), trial 
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Purchase yours here:
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Tina's FrontPage Tips, by Tina Clarke

Neatly does it.

When you need to FTP to the server it's a good
idea to first publish your web to a folder within
your hard drive. THEN FTP the folder to the
server.

This is because FrontPage peforms a number of
jobs at publishing time such as themes being
updated, including banners and overlays etc.

So make a folder named C:\ftpnameofweb then
simply FTP the folder to the server, that way you
won't forget essentials things like images and
those jobs you never see get done are.

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;
<1stPicksoftware-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe>

RANDOM TAGLINE MANAGER v4.5.1 
http://programs.fbrower.com/
Windows 9X/200/NT/XP

This program adds random taglines, or signatures to your Emails. 
It will work with any Email program that uses Text/Html/Rtf type 
files. The install contains over 6500 taglines, but you can add a 
MANY MANY more to the database, or replace these taglines with 
your own selection. See features page for full listing of
features.
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Screen Saver

The most important setting for screen savers is Wait Time, which
is how long your system will wait before 
the screen saver kicks in. Once a screen saver has started, just
move the mouse to turn it off and restore
your screen. For extra security when you are away from your
computer, you can have your screen saver 
password-protected so that you have to type in your password to
turn it off. 

To add password protection, right-click an empty spot on your
desktop and choose Properties. Next, click the 
Screen Saver tab and check the Password Protected box, Use the
Change button to change your password.  Remember this password
will only affect your screensaver and no other parts of windows
so keep it different then other windows type passwords, wouldn't
want someone to be able access your important files just because
they saw you unlock your screen saver. Click OK.

To indicate a wait time, right-click an empty spot on your
desktop and choose Properties. Next, click the 
Screen Saver tab and click on the up or down arrow on the Wait
box. Click OK.

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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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