[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #767 HackFix

MikesWhatsNews  18, 02, 2005
in today's issue #768

2       Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2005
3       Soda Pipes Game
4       Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
5       Google Maps
6       Active@ Partition Recovery
7       RegSeeker 1.35
8       CCC    7-Zip
9       Quickly Change Text Case in Word        
10      Tech News
11      Find A File
HackFix Updates 
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2
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2005
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=42105
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3
Play Soda Pipes from NStorm!
http://www.nstorm.com/games/game_detail.asp?game_id=295
System Requirments: 
OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows NT
DirectX: 7 CPU: Pentium

Build pipelines to guide flows of soda in an improved version of a classic
game, now with isometric 3d-graphics. Several flows may be running at the
same time and a flow may divide into sub flows, so watch out! This allows
construction of fascinating twisty mazes of pipes as well as regular one-way
pipelines. With three gameplay modes (Adventure, Puzzle & Arcade), Soda
Pipes will keep you entertained!
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4
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment)
bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD 
from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD,
very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.

It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a
graphical user interface (800x600) and 
FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems
with no OS, rescuing files to a network 
share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!
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5
Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/
Google Maps is an online service that allows users in the U.S. to find
location information, navigate through 
maps, and get directions quickly and easily. Google Maps has several unique
features:

Draggable maps ? you can click and drag Google maps to view adjacent
sections; no more long waits while 
new areas download. 

Integrated Local search results ? Google Maps integrates local search
results from Google Local. 
So to find a pizza place, simply type in "pizza in San Jose", and pizza
places appear at various locations 
on your map, with phone numbers for each location on the right side of the
page
. 
Turn-by-turn directions ? Type in an address and Google Maps plots the
route for you, displaying it visually
 on the map itself, together with step-by-step directions for getting there
(or back from there). When you 
click on one of these steps (say, "turn left"), you see a floating bubble
with a magnified view of the area 
mentioned in the directions. 
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6
 free trial
http://www.partition-recovery.com/

Have you ever faced situations such as:
Inadvertently deleted partitions (using fdisk or other programs) 
Damaged / Corrupted Hard Disk Logical Structure (for example due to boot
virus)
In such situations, one usually looses hope in recovering data and/or
partition information, but until now. 

Active@ Partition Recovery is a very small, easy to use DOS Program (only
150k in size) using which you can:

Recover deleted partitions (FAT and NTFS) 
Restore deleted FAT and NTFS Logical Drives 
Create Drive Image - for backup purposes 
Scan hard drives and detect deleted FAT and NTFS partitions and/or Logical
Drives 
Preview files and folders on deleted partition or drive, to recover proper
data 
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7
RegSeeker 1.35
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
RegSeeker is FREE for personal use only ! 
RegSeeker is a perfect companion for your Windows registry !
RegSeeker includes a powerful registry cleaner and can display various
informations like your startup entries, 
several histories (even index.dat files), installed applications and much
more ! 
With RegSeeker you can search for any item inside your registry,
export/delete the results, open them in
the registry. 
RegSeeker also includes a tweaks panel to optimize your OS !
Now RegSeeker includes a file tool to search for duplicate files, bad
shortcuts and more !
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8
'Christy's Computer Corner'
  thanks to Christy;
http://www.1stpick.org

7-Zip Freeware
http://www.7-zip.org/

This is a file archiver with the highest compression ratio. The
program supports ZIP, 7z, RAR, CAB, ARJ,
GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO and RPM formats. 7-Zip has a powerful
command-line version and FAR Manager
support. 
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9
Quickly Change Text Case in Word

If you need to change a word or phrase from lower-case to upper-case, just
hit the Shift key 
and the F3 key, when you have a word or sentence highlighted or the mouse
pointer at the
beginning or end of a word. 
Check it out in Word or Works and see where else it will work in your
computer. 

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Tech News
http://news.totalpc.org
Well, one thing I like to do online, is to read tech news, and play with the
latest programs to see if I can find one I like, or find interesting. So I
decided to make a page, with RSS news feeds, from all the tech sites I like
to visit. In it, is everything from betanews.com (bleeding edge software),
theregister, Slashdot, PC World, etc etc etc. Because they are RSS feeds,
they are updated regularly, so visiting the page an hour later, will bring
you different news. 
Thanks to; John G 
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11
Find A File ~ Mike's Friday Tip
 Did you know that you can find many files or programs by just clicking on
start, 
then find, then click on file, and type in a word about the file.
It will search your entire hard drive. once you see the file, or program in
the find file 
dialogue box, click on it to open it.

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This weeks Virus Pattern Updates (02/10/2005)

Updates will now vary in time but remain the same in day.  
Our time schedule no longer allows for updates to be sent at a
specific time on any day so we will continue to send them on 
Thursdays to help our readers to remember to update before 
leaving for the weekend (time away or from work).   
We apologize if this causes any confusion.

All Software listed Alphabetically by Company name as some 
companies manufacture more then one product.


Aladdin Knowledge Systems

Esafe Desktop/Gateway/Enterprise
Last Updated Feb 10/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.esafe.com/esafe/downloads/virusig.asp
Or
>From the Esafe folder in your Start Menu select Download Updates
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AlWil Software

Avast Antivirus
Last Updated Feb 08/2005
To update your software:
Visit: http://www.avast.com/
Or
Right click on the AVAST icon in the system tray, Select iAVS
Update, 
AVAST will check for updates and download the appropriate files as
needed.
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 Authentium Software Systems

Command antivirus
Last Updated Feb 10/2005
To update your software
Visit 
http://www.authentium.com/support/downloads/index.cfm
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Center for Antivirus Technologies (CAT)

Quickheal
Last Updated Feb 10/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://207.230.103.11/public/updates/updates.asp
Or
Open Quickheal select Utility from the top toolbar and liveupdate.
 
Follow the onscreen prompts.  Alternately you can select
Liveupdate 
directly from the QuickHeal program menu on the startmenu.
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Frisk Software Systems

Fprot
Last Updated Feb 08/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/
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Computer Associates

E-Trust
Last updated Feb 10/2005
To update your software
http://www3.ca.com/support/vicdownload/
Or
>From the Respective folder in your Start Menu select Autodownload

For Vet Anti virus
http://www.vet.com.au/html/software/update.html

Be sure to have your Customer ID and your registered email address
handy for verification.

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GeCad Software

Rav (Reliable AntiVirus)
Last Updated:  Feb 10/2005
To update your software:
Visit: 
http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/dldupdate.php?type=Daily
Or
Open Rav and select Rav Update from the toolbar
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Grisoft Inc.

AVG 
Announcing the End of Support for AVG Anti-Virus 6.0 (Feb 15, 2005)
Read more here: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_avg6_termination.php
(New update details will be available soon)

Last updated Feb 10/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php
Or 
Open AVG and click Virus Database to check for updates
Or
Open AVG control centre and click Update Manager/update now

**Note:  To help speed up AVG updates you can set your program to
use an alternate download site.  
Open AVG control centre->update manager->download from server.
The drop downbox should have listed www.grisoft.com (default)  and

www.grisoft.cz. (be sure to select "apply" when done to save the
changes) 
The default site is most often used so can at times become
temporarily unavailable.  By using the secondary site
(www.grisoft.cz) 
helps to ease the server and makes your update go quicker as most
don't use it!
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H+Bedv

AntiVir
Last updated Feb 10/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.free-av.com/antivirus/allinonen.html
Or
Open AntiVir, from the top toolbar select Tools->start internet 
update and follow the on screen prompts.


Vexira 
Last updated Feb 10/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.centralcommand.com/updates.html
Or
Open Vexira, from the top toolbar select Tools->start internet 
update and follow the on screen prompts.

Vexira Antivirus is marketed by Central Command however it 
is the same program as Antivir with only a different name.
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Kaspersky

Kaspersky Anti-Virus (formerly AVP)
Last updated Feb 05/2005 
To update your software
Visit: http://www.kaspersky.com/updates.asp
Or
Open AVP from the top toolbar click Tools-> Update virus
definition
Or
From the Kaspersky folder in your Start Menu select AVP updater


*Note*  Avp now has available a cumulative update and a 
daily update with the daily being any important items they 
feel shouldn't wait till the next cumulative update.  Our 
dates here are based on the most recent Major update.

*Note:  Improved update accessiblity. To ease the update web
traffic Kaspersky labs has additional servers for autoupdating.  
The program defaults to use one server but can be altered to 
check a variety of servers. 
Select Kaspersky updater, select update via the internet to 
open the drop down box(es) select "location"  Check the box
labeled "Use alternate locations from the list"  select next and 
next to update.  This option should stay selected after the first 
time.  This helps Kaspersky lighten the load for updates and 
helps you obtain updates easier.
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Network Associates

Mcafee 
Last updated Feb 09/2005
To update your software 
For Mcafee Visit
http://www.networkassociates.com/us/downloads/updates/superdat.asp
(for Virus and Engine updates)


Drsolomn (Product no longer available for new users however 
updates still available for current users):  Go to the following 
Internet site: http://download.mcafee.com/updates/4x.asp
IMPORTANT: When you get to this site you may notice that it 
refers to VirusScan. This update is not only for VirusScan. 
It also works with Dr.Solomon's. 

Or
Open your respective software virus scan scheduler, double click 
Auto update, click Run Now to do a manual live update, or click 
Schedule to set up a timed live update.
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Norman Data Defence

Norman Virus Control
Last updated Feb 07/2005
To update your software
Visit: 
http://www.norman.com/downloads.shtml#definition_files_updates
Be sure to have your Valid Username and password handy for
verification.
Or From the Norman folder in your Start Menu select Internet
Update

**Note Norman Virus Control web updates are only for version 
prior to 5.0.  Norman 5.0 can only be updated via the update in 
the program itself.

Thunderbyte Anti Virus
Current Version: This product is no longer being supported.
http://www.norman.com/tbav.shtml
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Softwin

BitDefender (Previously known as AVX - AntiVirus eXpert as of Nov
06/01)
Last Updated Feb 10/2005 
To update your software
Visit:
http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/downloads.php?menu_id=19&s_id=3
Or
Open BitDefender select Protection Options->live upgrade
Or From the BitDefender folder in your Start Menu select
Bitdefender Live
         
Press Release on the software change 
http://www.bitdefender.com/press/ref1.php
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Sophos

Sophos Anti Virus
Last IDE available Feb 10/2005
To obtain the latest IDE files
Visit: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/

**Note:  Sophos does not update as other products do.  
They update the Engine/software once a month (or so) to include
all the previous IDE files.  New IDE files are available with new 
virus threats and must be downloaded individually until the next 
software update is available.  
Our update dates reflect the most recent available IDE file.
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Symantec

Nortons AntiVirus
Last updated Feb 09/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html 
select your language -> product from the list
Or
Open Nortons software and click the "live update" button
Or From the Nortons folder in your Start Menu select LiveUpdate - 
Norton Antivirus
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Trend Micro

PcCillin 
Last updated Feb 10/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp
Be sure to have your Registration number handy for verification
Or
Open PcCillin click Update then click Update Now (or Update later 
to Schedule a timed update)
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If there is an Anti Virus program that is Not listed here that
you would like to see added to the weekly updates list Please
feel free to let us know.

Remember Your anti virus software is only as good as the user...
If you don't keep it updated it won't provide you with maximum
protection.

This weekly Update will be sent every Thursday on or after
6pm (eastern) to keep you up to date on virus pattern updates
available. Virus patterns are checked for most recent update
date as of 6pm Thursdays.

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Http://www.hackfix.org

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