[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #577
- From: "Mike" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:01:45 -0700
MikesWhatsNews, 21, 10, 2002
in today's issue #577
McAfee 4160 Engine HotFix
Kinetics Lab
Dependency
Internet Pornography Complaints
KiddoNet
Crop it
Spammers crack through Windows
CCC FotoArchive
Stuck In the Menus
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Security Awareness Notes:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHome.html
** McAfee 4160 Engine HotFix ** McAfee Security has discovered their
anti-virus software is presenting false detections of a W32/insane.dam
virus, and can lead to deletions of legitimate files during clean up. McAfee
recommends using their engine v4.1.60 and applying the HotFix (released
10/16/02) for this engine in order to avoid the false detections. See McAfee
W32/insane.dam for more information. (10/17/2002 - 12:45pm PST)
++ There is more on the web site.
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Kinetics Lab ~ free
http://www.riverdeep.net/edmark/
Windows/Mac
Click on Free Downloads
Explore gravity, friction, mass, and inertia by putting balls in motion
across a customizable metal surface.
Suitable for grades: 3-8
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Dependency ~ free
http://camtech2000.net/Pages/Useful.html
Win95/98/Me/Win2K
Most programs require the support of additional files sometimes not included
in order to run properly.
Dependency will show you the dll's and ocx's as well as their size and
location that the exe of the program is dependent upon.
From; camtech2000.net
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Internet Pornography Complaints Handled by Site
http://www.obscenitycrimes.org/
NEW YORK, OCT. 10, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Web users who want to curb
Internet pornography now have a site that can help. The site,
www.obscenitycrimes.org, accepts complaints from Internet users who
receive "porn spam" -- unsolicited e-mail that promotes a pornographic
Web site -- or who accidentally stumble across obscene sites. The
complaints will be forwarded to federal attorneys and the U.S. Justice
Department in Washington, D.C.
This site is the brainchild of Morality in Media, which raised the money
for the site and met with the Justice Department and other agencies to
assure that the reports would be properly received. A former FBI agent
with experience in investigating obscenity oversees the reports.
From; Ask The Computer Lady
Written by Elizabeth Boston, http://askTCL.com
Past issues of "Ask The Computer Lady" can be found at:
http://askTCL.com just click on "Newsletter Archives"
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KiddoNet Fun, Safe Internet for kids
http://www.kiddonet.com/
"KiddoNet is the place to be to make your own home page,
create comics, get your own Email, send funny greetings,
solve ancient mysteries, be a graffiti artist, and more!"
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KiddoNet's safe browser
Using KiddoNet?s kid-friendly SAFE browser, children have
the freedom to surf the Net and explore its positive aspects
without gaining access to inappropriate sites and material.
Download KiddoNet :
1. Click the button below to start the download.
2. Choose the option "Save this file to disk" from
the download window.
3. Save the file to your desktop.
Install KiddoNet :
Double-click the KiddoNet.EXE file on your desktop.
Follow the instructions on your screen.
(About 7MB)
To run KiddoNet and start having fun,
just click the KiddoNet icon on your desktop or select
KiddoNet from the Start menu (KiddoNet program group). System Requirements :
Pentium 32MB
Microsoft Windows 95 or higher
Internet Explorer 4 or higher
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Crop it! ~ Free
http://cropit.entrysoft.com/
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Well then you finally got that nice digital camera filled with megapixels,
lots of zoom and all the latest features one can think of. In your
enthusiasm you take picture after picture. Wanting to show all those nice
pictures to your friends you send them to a digital lab to be professionally
printed.
So far so good :)
When you get them back you notice small white borders on the side of your
pictures or even worse parts of your pictures have been cropped without you
having the choice on which region. This is because your pictures need to
have a 3 x 2 ratio in order to be developed.
Well instead of manually cropping each picture in a graphical packet Crop
it! lets you do this in batch mode for many pictures in a few minutes. You
just select a directory and Crop it! will automatically display the picture,
and depending on whether it's portrait or landscape it will draw a selection
with the right 3 x 2 ratio. Select what you want to crop, press enter and
done. Screenshot
Best news is that Crop it is freeware.
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Spammers crack through Windows ~ by Robert Lemos
Special to ZDNet News October 18, 2002, 4:44 AM PT
Spammers have co-opted an administration feature in Microsoft's Windows
operating systems and are using it to bring up intrusive advertisements on
Internet-connected computers.
The feature, known as the messenger service, typically lets a network
administrator send warnings to users when, for example, a server is
scheduled to go down for maintenance. Now some advertisers are using it to
send bulk messages to anyone connected to the Internet with an accessible
address.
"Spammers are blindly sending their advertisements by randomly picking a
series of Internet addresses," said Charmaine Gravning, product manager for
Windows at Microsoft. "On computers without a firewall, a little messenger
window pops up."
The messenger feature, not to be confused with Microsoft's instant messaging
applications, can use many different protocols to send a single message,
according to Microsoft. The intrusive messages only appear on computers
running Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and XP and that are directly connected to
the Internet via a valid address; Windows systems behind a firewall or
attached to a router that links multiple computers to a single Internet
address will be unaffected.
"The feature can be used to notify a user when a printer job fails," said
Lawrence Baldwin, president of myNetWatchman.com, a company that monitors
incidents on the Internet through a network of sensors set up by volunteers.
"It was never the intention to let someone halfway across the world send
messages that pop up on your screen."
Free utilities that enable people to exchange messages with each other using
the messenger service have been available on the Internet for a while, but
one enterprising company has recently started selling such software.
DirectAdvertiser.com, a U.S.-based firm registered in Romania, has created
an application that lets users send advertisements via the messenger channel
to anyone whose computer is set up to receive messenger-service notes. The
program costs $700 and has, in two months, already sold more than 200
copies, company founder Zoltan Kovacs said in an interview.
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From; http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-962483.html
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Christies Computer Corner thanks to Christy;
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FotoArchive
http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/anistor/software/fotoarchive.htm
Freeware
Windows95/98/Me/NT3.51/4.0/2000/XP
Use FotoArchive to divide image files into albums and catalog
them using the image file type.
No thumbnails are used, saving you valuable disk space. Easily
transfer Foto records from between albums, add images or change
their location within an album.
The interface displays a scrollable image, the full path of the
image file and three searchable category text areas.
There are 640x480 and 800x600 viewers with scrollable sides and
full image capacity. View many images at once in big thumbnail
form without saving thumbnails. There is complete standard
Windows cut, copy and past compatibility.
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Stuck in the Menus
If your keystrokes don't appear in your work but instead make a
bunch of menus shoot out from the top of the window, you're stuck
in the Menus. Somehow, you've pressed and released the Alt key,
an innocent-looking key that's easy to hit accidentally.
When you press and release Alt, Windows turns its attention away
from your work and toward the menus along the top of the window.
To get back to work, press and release the Alt key again.
Alternatively, press Esc. One or the other is your ticket out of
the Menus.
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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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