MikesWhatsNews, 17, 06, 2002 in today's issue #516 Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne Cool Ticker .8 FBI ACCUSED OF PASSING SECRETS TO U.S. Microsoft Accidentally Distributes Virus PacMan & Space Invaders CT Stickies1.0 Tina's FrontPage Tips CCC Fresh Download Quicker Printing ____________________________________________________________ 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 ____________________________________________________________ Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne - beta http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=23110&db=win Help the Wizards restore balance to the world. *** Rating; Teen mild violence simulated blood Awakened to join an immortal group of Wizards in the Circle of Evermore, you must restore balance to a world on the brink of collapse. Powerful spheres of magic are thrown against one another in a war of Wizards the likes of which have never been seen before. By mastering magical forces of creation and dealing with the deities who govern them, you must establish a fantasy empire and confront other Wizards in your quest to THE WIZARD'S THRONE. AGE OF WONDERS II is the sequel to the Award-Winning Age of Wonders®. Delivering an invigorating mix of Empire Building, Role-playing, and Warfare, AGE OF WONDERS II offers the ultimate in fantasy turn-based strategy. Explore a world full of mythical creatures and mysterious lands. Build an impressive force as an all-powerful Wizard through dangerous perils and exhilarating challenges. Now is your time to embrace your destiny and take your rightful place at the head of the Circle, forever. ++ From; VersionTracker.com ____________________________________________________________ Cool Ticker .8 ~ Free http://membres.lycos.fr/coolticker/ The ideal solution for centralizing display of information, messages, alarms, schedules, notifications, monitoring alerts, real time statistics. Unlike other applications, it does not open pop-up windows that disturbs you when you are hard working on Word/Excel or PhotoShop. It does not open multiple pop-up for each message. All is displayed into one of the 3 small display zones (ScrollBoard, DashBoard, TipBoard/LogBoard). It's totally opened to third-party apps/add-ons and can receive (TCP-IP, DDE) or retrieve (HTTP, POP3, Shared directory Files) messages produced by local or networked applications. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 ++ ____________________________________________________________ WNetEnumCachedPasswords Lock Patch For Windows95, Windows98 & WindowsME Microsoft Windows installs with a file called MPR.DLL (MPR standing for Multiple Provider Route). While the functions of this DLL are generally very useful, there is one exported function that is not required and is of particular concern to the security-conscious. Existing only in Windows95/98/ME versions of mpr.dll (it was removed from Windows NT/2K for good reason), the name of this exported function is WNetEnumCachedPasswords. It is officially undocumented, but enough unofficial documentation has been created so that trojan authors can easily call this DLL from their own trojan - indeed, many popular trojans such as Sub7 have taken advantage of this API for a long time, and even the safe passdump.exe demo program that accompanies this patch uses this unofficial documentation to call the function. ++ ____________________________________________________________ FBI ACCUSED OF PASSING SECRETS TO U.S. http://www.satirewire.com/news/june02/fbi.shtml Washington, D.C. ? In an alarming breakdown of internal security, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today was accused of passing classified, terrorism-related information to the United States. From; Satire Wire ____________________________________________________________ Microsoft Accidentally Distributes Virus ~ By Robert Lemos http://news.com.com/2100-1001-935994.html Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers, distributing Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net that carried the virus, company representatives acknowledged Friday. Microsoft's flagship developer tools picked up the digital pest when a third-party company translated the program into Korean, a Microsoft representative said. The representative stressed that no other foreign-language versions of the program were found to be infected. "Because the worm only infected the Korean version, we believe the number of companies infected is small," the representative said, adding that Microsoft released a patch last night. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant released Visual Studio .Net in February, and the Korean version made it to market some 90 days ago, the representative said. Nimda started infecting computers last September and quickly became an epidemic. However, since October, incidents of the worm have dropped. ++ Submitted by; Christy ____________________________________________________________ CT Stickies1.0 http://camtech2000.net/Pages/Stickies.html Win 59/98/ME/NT CT Stickies is a sticky note application for your Windows desktop. It allows you to create sticky notes and 'stick' them anywhere on your desktop. You can customize your notes with a wide variety of background and text colors. Notes are automatically saved. Great for appointments, email addresses. Urls, Computer notes (shortcuts, etc) Stickies will remember where you put them on your Desktop and can be reloaded at startup. ++ ____________________________________________________________ PacMan & Space Invaders ! The genius of Paul Neaves has brought classic retro arcade games like Pacman and Space Invaders to life again. Learn more at Paul's site http://www.neave.com (flash required) thanks to; Christy ____________________________________________________________ Tina's FrontPage Tips, by Tina Clarke The high life! Place the cursor to the left of the first letter, hold down the shift key and then place the cursor at the end of the text you want to change and the whole text area will be highlighted. 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 ____________________________________________________________ Christies Computer Corner thanks to Christy; <1stPicksoftware-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> Fresh Download Freeware http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html Win 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager software that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite software, mp3 files, video files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners in the software, no spyware. Be sure to also check out the other Fresh software! ~~~~~~~ Quicker Printing Usually, when you want to print something, you'll open the program you created the file in, open the file, and select the print button. Want to know a quicker way? Simply put a shortcut to your printer on your desktop. Then just drag and drop a document on it to print. The program will open the document and it will send it to the printer. Here's how to put a printer shortcut on your desktop: 1. Open the My Computer icon on your desktop 2. Open the Printers folder 3. Drag your printer icon to the desktop. When asked if you want to make a shortcut, select YES. That's it. Simply navigate to where the document resides and drag it to your printer icon. 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. 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