[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #557

MikesWhatsNews, 23, 09, 2002
in today's issue #557
1st Page Download has a Trojan in it.
World Monuments Map Puzzle
Cool Signatures
Scrub Your Hard Drive Clean
Voiced Keyboard
Tina's FrontPage Tips
CCC      The Why Files 
        Caps Lock Warning Sound
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1st Page Download has a Trojan in it.

I just ran a Norton Virus check and found out that when I downloaded 1st
Page I got a Trojan with it. 
Norton had quarantined it and I deleted it and removed 1st Paige from my
computer. 
I ran another scan and I am OK now.

The Trojan was " six buttons from hell.izs" the name was "JS windows bomb"
and it was located on 1st Page script button six.  

Ross
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Computer_Help_and_Discussion
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World Monuments Map Puzzle ~ free
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/monuments.htm
Windows 95,  98 or 3.1
Geography is the study of places, including the people who live or have
lived there. People have built monuments because something mattered, and to
show that it mattered. They became a major part of where they were built and
have often come to stand for that place.
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Cool Signatures
http://www.coolsig.com/
Have you ever wondered how some people always seem to
have pithy and amusing closing lines on their
e-mails? Did you assume they were simply
knowledgeable and witty? Perhaps not. Maybe they just
visit a great website with reams of cool signatures.

Thanks to; Christy
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If you are looking to cleanup your hard drive this site has the best system
going.

Scrub Your Hard Drive Clean! By Fred Langa
http://www.langa.com/cleanup_bat.htm
(for FREE!)
Any one of these five free batch files can scrub your hard drive clean of
many junk files, freeing up (typically) anywhere from tens to thousands of
megabytes of otherwise-wasted disk space. You can pick any or all of the
files (they're all free); the files are listed below in roughly-increasing
order of "cleaning power."

These free files are part of a detailed series of articles on system
maintenance; as the series progresses, these files are being enhanced,
improved, and extended. Read the free LangaList Newsletter for details and
to be sure you get the next versions as soon as they become available!

All files are fully documented in accompanying articles, and/or in internal
comments you can read with any text editor, such as Notepad. Please read all
notes, instructions, and precautions about these files before running them.
These files have been run successfully on tens of thousands of systems, but
it is your responsibility to ensure that these files are OK to run on your
specific system.

Pick The Free File You're Interested In:

1) Cleanup.Bat For Batch File Novices  
(Basic hard drive cleanup in a simpler, easy to edit and modify file)

2) Cleanup.Bat For Batch File Experts:
(Basic hard drive cleanup in a more powerful, flexible [but harder to
understand and edit] version)

3)WipeTIF.Bat Completely Erase All Temp Internet Files (More thorough
cleanup: Compact your Cookies Index, and completely erase Everything in your
"Temporary Internet Files" area!)

4) CleanALL.Bat: More Power! (Combines the power of Cleanup.Bat AND
WipeTIF.Bat for truly awesome cleaning! Scrubs your Temp and Tmp areas,
erases all Temporary Internet Files, and compacts your Cookies Index!)

5) Clean9x.Bat: Still More Power, Plus Extra Safety! (All the benefits of
the above, with efficiencies and special disk-integrity checking.)

6) CleanXP.Bat: A version of CleanAll that works on WinME, 2K and XP!
 
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Don't forget to set a registry restore point before starting a major
cleanup.  

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Voiced Keyboard
http://www.yayahoohoo.com/
Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000
Voiced Keyboard can vocalise the text you are typing at the completion of
each character or word. Using Voiced Keyboard means that you can touch-type
and have your computer confirm that you have been typing without spelling
mistakes. This, at the same time, can greatly improve your typing speed.
Voiced Keyboard can also read an entire document back to you. Another
remarkable feature of Voiced Keyboard is that it can generate sounds at
certain keyboard events in many different sound schemes (such as a
typewriter, birds, animals, etc.). Voiced Keyboard is very easy to use,
highly configurable, and does not take up much hard drive space or memory. 
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Tina's FrontPage Tips, by Tina Clarke

When choosing a host for your FrontPage web a
few salient facts are worth noting, namely:

When a web host says "We support FrontPage" remember that 
you need FrontPage extension support also. They should state 
"We support FrontPage Extensions" if they don't, query it till 
they give you a written statement that they do support 
extensions and ask them to state that on their site. 
Go elsewhere if they don't know this basic fact, because 
chances are that they don't know too much about extensions
either When a host says "We support FrontPage", they merely 
mean you can use FrontPage the same as any other web editor
with ftp capability. If you want to use FrontPage with webbots 
then you need the extensions.

Two other facts to keep in mind are Do you support sub webs 
and What version of FrontPage extensions do you support? 
It's no good getting the latest FP02 to use sharepoint only to 
find that your on a host with FrontPage 2000 server extensions.

Finally, do they have a support section  where you can find out 
about FrontPage questions to do with the host depending on 
weather it's a Windows or Unix server there are different
problems to consider and things that you can't do on one that 
you can do on the other.

For more information about hosts in general and to understand 
what you should be looking for in a host check out:
http://netbizcoach.com/public/how_to/find_host/test.htm

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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The Why Files (or Fun with Science)

http://whyfiles.org/find_it/index.html

From the how-to of cloning to the hidden secrets of mosquitoes,
"The Why Files" has successfully made science more available to
the public through in-depth but accessible articles about science
and how
it affects everyday life.

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Caps Lock Warning Sound

Now if only I had sound this would be perfect as I do this all
the time!

You've done it a dozen times today: pressed the Caps Lock key
when you really wanted the Shift key. To stop this bother, turn
on an alarm sound that alerts you whenever you press Caps Lock,
Num Lock, or Scroll 
Lock.

1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel.

2. Double-click the Accessibility Options icon.

3. Click the Keyboard tab and then click to put a 
check mark in the Use ToggleKeys box.

4. Click OK.

That ought to slow down any wayward fingers.

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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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