[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #592

MikesWhatsNews, 11, 11, 2002
in today's issue #592
Remembrance Day
"Stupid" Author Faces Computer Sex Charge
StartRight
Box Runner 2
Yahoo is up to tracking again!
E-mail Virus Alert Carries Own Worm
Lock Files & Folders XP Version 1.1
Unpatched IE Security Holes
NoAds
CCC     Old Farmer's Almanac        
            Switching Between Screens

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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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Remembrance Day
http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/remember.html
They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. 
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"Stupid" Author Faces Computer Sex Charge
By Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-author-sex1108nov08.story

November 8, 2002, 8:46 AM EST

Lantana, Fla. -- The author of two books on stupidity has been charged with
trying to meet a teenager on line for the purpose of sex. 

Sixty-one-year-old James Welles has written books called "The Story of
Stupidity" and "Understanding Stupidity." Both are about the dumb moves
people make. 

Welles now faces a charge in Lantana, Florida, with using the computer to
set up a date with a 15-year-old girl. But the "girl" was really a
40-year-old undercover detective. 

Investigators said the relationship began in an Internet chat room. They
said it took about three weeks to get to the point Welles was willing to
commit a crime. 
Copyright © 2002, The Associated Press 
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StartRight  
http://jackass.arsware.org/sr.php
 Start-up Utility  for Windows
StartRight will manage the execution of programs that are automatically
started by the operating system at logon time. 
Instead of executing many programs at once (causing your OS to spit and
sputter and attack your hard drive), StartRight will give the OS time to
execute the program before running the next program. 
The OS should become much more responsive almost imediately after logon.  
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Box Runner 2 ~ free
http://www.geocities.com/boxrun/games.htm
Requirements - 300 Mhz, Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP
Box Runner is a sort of Lode Runner Clone. 
The objective of the game is simply to collect all the boxes on each level
to open the exit to the next level. 
Trap monsters in a hole to recover the box they are carrying while avoiding
traps and other monsters. 
There are over 40 different levels to test your agility and intellect, the
first couple of levels are easy but difficulty increases on each level, this
game is as much about puzzle solving as it is arcade action.
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Yahoo is up to tracking again!
Yahoo is up to invasion of privacy again!  Tracking us within and outside 
of the Yahoo network and in their HTML-formatted email messages that Yahoo 
or its agents send in order to determine which email messages were opened 
and whether a message was acted upon.  You have to optout *each* computer 
at this site:
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html 
or
http://tinyurl.com/11px 

Direct link to optout if you don't want to visit the site:
http://pclick.yahoo.com/p?optout

Thanks to; Gene
List Owner/Moderator - Build_A_Computer
A Technical Support Alliance Charter Member 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Build_A_Computer/
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E-mail Virus Alert Carries Own Worm ~ By Robert Lemos 

November 8, 2002, 3:03 PM PT
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965130.html 

A Russian antivirus company apologized Friday for an e-mailed virus alert
that was infected with the very worm the message was supposedly designed to
warn against. 

Kaspersky Labs said the message, sent Thursday to subscribers of the
company's "Virus News" e-mail dispatch, had actually been sent by hackers
masquerading as the company. The hackers had managed to break into
Moscow-based Kaspersky's computer system and steal the mailing list for the
newsletter, the company said. 

"We are conducting an investigation to reveal the sources of this attack and
are taking the necessary measures...to ensure that this type of attack will
never succeed in the future," Eugene Kaspersky, founder and head of research
for the company, said in an advisory about the e-mail. 

To date, the company hasn't heard of any infections resulting from the
tainted message, but it has offered free technical services to anyone who
does fall prey to the viral prank. 

The infected message, sent to some thousands of subscribers, carried a copy
of the recently discovered Braid worm. 

Braid, also known by Kaspersky Labs as Bridex, hasn't spread very widely.
U.K.-based e-mail service provider MessageLabs intercepts such hostile
attachments for its client companies and has seen only a little more than
2,000 copies of the virus in the last 24 hours. That places the malicious
program at No. 5 on MessageLab's daily Top 10 list; the Klez virus leads the
pack with over 9,000 infected e-mails intercepted by the company in the last
24 hours. 
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From; CNET News.com
See also;
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/28017.html

Thanks to; Handle With Care
     "It appears that Kapersky's was hacked and their entire 
      newletter mailing list hijacked to send out virus.  My 
      own email box was flooded with several dozen copies of 
      it (which good old clunky McAfee caught each time).  If 
      that happened to me, I'm sure it happened to everybody 
      on Kapersky's mailing lists.  I also got some with a 
      spoofed idg.net header, claiming to be from IDG. 
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Lock Files & Folders XP Version 1.1  ~ free
http://www.winguardpro.com/download.htm
Keep people out of your private files and fodlers!

Compatible with Windows 95/98/Me, NT/2000 and XP

Lock Files and Folders XP can lock entire folders or individual files with
ease. By locking; it actually makes and entire folder/file inaccessible to
any program, and also they cannot be deleted, renamed or anything of the
kind.
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Unpatched IE Security Holes
http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/
Please note: this site will work in any browser and on any device, however
will look much nicer on CSS-compatible browsers. If you are using a browser
that supports CSS, please wait while the CSS file loads and this message
will disappear.
If you wish to enjoy the web to the fullest, please upgrade to a
standards-compatible browser. 

Why this page ?
This page was made public to put pressure on Microsoft, in the hope that
they may patch the listed security holes. 
Vulnerabilities listed on this page work (among others) with the latest
versions of Internet Explorer, with all patches installed. 
Until proper patches have been provided, the only fix is to disable
scripting.

This page is, and always will be, a work in progress. 
This is not a definitive list of vulnerabilities. 

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NoAds ~ free  updated  2002.11.05
http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP 
Stop annoying popup web ads 
 
NoAds stops Internet popup ads from getting in the way of your web surfing. 
NoAds is fully configurable, allowing you to specify which ads you want to
be destroyed automatically. 
It supports most popular web browsers, including Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Netscape Navigator, America Online, and Opera. 
The program is very easy to use, and stays running in the system tray for
quick access.
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only exception is the desktop screen. You must minimize all
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Tip within a tip:

Using Alt+tab toggles between all screens shown on your taskbar
Alt+esc is only the active windows (those not minimized to the
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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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