MikesWhatsNews, 29, 10, 2002 in today's issue #583 ERUNT - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT Answers That Work Stickies v4.0a Clear out your Internet Explorer Temp File when IE is Closed The Pumpkin King Halloween Contest Sneaky E-card Installs Porn ?Worm? Spiral Screensaver CCC Digital Music Network Orogram Arangement ____________________________________________________________ NOTE: Any time you see the " ++ ", it means there is more of the article, or story, on the linked site. Mike ____________________________________________________________ There is a complete archive of past MikesWhatsNews newsletters available to members on the Yahoo page, it is searchable by word or issue #. Here is the address direct to the messages; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MikesWhatsNews/messages and; //www.freelists.org/archives/mikeswhatsnews/ ____________________________________________________________ ERUNT - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/XP v1.0 Freeware http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt As Windows XP comes pre-installed many new home user PCs and may become the new Windows standard in the next years, I decided to write a program which offers the ease-of-use of Windows 9x/Me ERU by Microsoft (hence the name ERUNT) to backup the registry, as well as providing an auto-backup capability, for example at Windows startup. Or, before installing a new program for testing purposes one could save the registry with ERUNT, install and test the program, uninstall it and restore the registry to be 100% sure that no debris is left from the program. Features -------- - Backup the Windows NT/2000/XP registry to a folder of your choice - System and current user registries selectable - Command-line switches for automated use of ERUNT - Restore the registry in Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP and MS-DOS (all-in-one restore program) - Included in this package: NTREGOPT program for optimizing the registry - All programs in this package are completely localizable (translate them into your language), German version included ++ ___________________________________________________________ Answers That Work http://www.answersthatwork.com The Library of Answers That Work works on a brand new and unique concept. We have built the Library on the basis that in most cases you will want to use a solution more than once. There is no better place, therefore, than for that solution to be on your own PC, in a folder structure that makes sense and which you can navigate easily and, above all, quickly ? because it is on your PC rather than on the Internet. ____________________________________________________________ Stickies v4.0a by Tom Revell ~ free http://www.btinternet.com/~tom.revell/index.html Stickies is a PC utility to replace the Post-It® notes the monitor. It is a computerised version of those notes. The idea behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Admittedly, over time it's grown in size as I've added features, but it compiles to around 200k, which is pretty tiny by today's standards. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores all information in a single text-based ini file. The program is written in Microsoft Visual C++. ++ ____________________________________________________________ Clear out your Internet Explorer Temp File when IE is Closed http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security /topics/hcp1.asp Did you know Internet Explorer downloads everything you see when you're browsing the Web? That's right! Every picture, every piece of text is just sitting there on your hard disk. It's not very difficult for someone to get a good idea of what you've been up to if you let that stuff sit on your computer. What you need to do is clear out those Internet temp files so that no one will be able to look at what you've been looking at! Here's one way to do it: Open Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu and then click the Internet Options command. Click on the Advanced tab. Scroll down and find the Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed entry and click the checkbox. Click Apply and then click OK. Close all browser windows and open Internet Explorer. Now when you close all your browser windows, the temporary Internet files will go with them. ____________________________________________________________ The Pumpkin King Halloween Contest. Demo http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=24920&db=win Presented by End If Software. Pumpkin King Halloween is a small action game where the sheltering light of a pumpkin has to be protected from hostile moths. Who stands this challenge can become the honorable Pumpkin king. Well, are you ready to defend the pumpkin's light in this darkest of nights? On ye go, hold your own bravely. Until Halloween comes... ++ ____________________________________________________________ Sneaky E-card Installs Porn ?Worm? by Bob Sullivan MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/news/826033.asp?cp1=1 Card turns PCs into spam generators, but is it a virus? Users who try to view the e-card are warned they must install new software and told in small print of the End User License Agreement that the program will access the installer?s address book. Oct. 25 ? It?s part spam, part pop-up porn ad software, part computer virus, part e-greeting card ? but a complete nuisance. Internet users are starting to complain to their anti-virus providers about a suspicious e-mail making the rounds that purports to be a harmless electronic greeting card. But trying to pick up the card has severe consequences: a copy of the e-card e-mail is sent to everyone in the recipient?s Outlook e-mail address book, similar to the worm-like behavior of the Melissa virus or the LoveBug. The incident highlights a disturbing trend: spam advertisers taking up tactics used by virus writers. ++ From; MSNBC Hacks, Viruses & Scams References; http://f-secure.com/v-descs/friendgr.shtml http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99760 http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/25/1636215.shtml?tid=95 http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/friendgreetings.html ***MfM*** What makes this particular piece of 'Scumware' unique is it is the first time a Worm (or whatever it is) has included an EULA? [End User Licensing Agreement] ____________________________________________________________ Spiral Screensaver - freeware screensaver http://www.raizlabs.com/software/ Download this free spiral screensaver. This screensaver creates thousands of original spirals and symmetrical designs. Created by Dan Levin, exclusively for download here at Raizlabs. To install simply save this file into your windows\system32 directory. ++ ____________________________________________________________ Christies Computer Corner thanks to Christy; <1stPicksoftware-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> Digital Music Network Freeware http://www.dmn.com/ This plug-in works with all leading media players to give you information about a particular artist as you listen to one of their songs. Hum along as you read: News flashes Concert schedules New release dates Biographies Discographies This program also provides sophisticated recommendations to help you discover new music based on songs to which you've already listened. ~~~~~~~ Program arangement If you would like to change the order of the programs in your Programs menu (Start button, Programs), you'll be glad to know it's easy as drag and drop. Here's how: 1. Click the Start button, Programs. 2. Once you're in the programs menu, click and hold the icon next to the item you would like to move. 3. While holding the mouse button down, move the item up or down the menu, you'll see a black line showing where you can drop the item as you move it. If this doesn't work, you probably don't have active desktop installed (in other words, you gotta have IE 4.0 or better). Was this forwarded to you ? Get your own subscription here: <1stpickPCtips-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> ____________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________ Please feel free, to offer constructive criticism, as that will help me keep it interesting. I also welcome any submissions about new products, web pages, or articles of interest. 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