Virus News Flash - Microsoft Corp.'s Bounty Program Snags Author Of Sasser Worm
How Do I Print Only Sections Of Pages Rather Than Entire Documents?
Unlimited Long Distance Calling – Anytime. Any Day. How Convenient!
Great Sites To Check Out This Month
Online Gallatin River Directories Are Now Available!
Short Tutorial - Switching E-mail Messages From HTML-Based To Text-Based
In November 2003, Microsoft Corp. launched an Anti-virus Reward Program, (initially funding it with five million dollars) to be used as bounty money for people who offered information leading to the arrest and conviction of creators of e-mail viruses and worms. Well, apparently money talks.
Last month, informants tipped off Microsoft officials in Germany with the name of the author of the Sasser worm. Microsoft Corp. then worked with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations, the U.S. Secret Service and German officials. The end result? Less than a week after the release of the Sasser worm, German authorities arrested an eighteen-year-old high school student suspect, named Sven Jaschan, who lives at home with his parents near the small German hamlet of Rotenburg. (Not surprisingly, he was sitting at his computer at the time of the arrest.) Jaschan confessed to German officials that he did in fact create the Sasser worm along with its four variants. Investigators said Jaschan's confiscated computer contained source code from the Sasser worm.
Additionally, authorities believe Jaschan to also be the author of the Netsky worm (and its 28 variants) which was released in February 2004. One of the latest Netsky variants stated in its source code, in part, "Hey AV (anti-virus) firms, do you know that we have programmed the Sasser virus?!? Yeah, that's true ..."
Jaschan is being investigated on suspicion of computer sabotage, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
The Sasser worm attacks Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines through the port vulnerability discussed in Microsoft's Security Bulletin it posted on its website back on April 13, 2004. If you run either Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your computer and have yet to download this free security patch, do so immediately at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-011.mspx
Symptoms of an infection include the continual crashing and rebooting of your computer system. If you believe that the Sasser worm has already infected your computer, go to the following Microsoft web page for assistance: http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp
A note of irony -- The mother of the eighteen-year-old high school student suspect runs a computer store in the small town of Waffensen, Germany.
Question: I wanted to print a hard copy of a tutorial for future reference from an eNewsletter. When I've attempted to do this, I not only got the tutorial section but the entire eNewsletter as well. I only want the tutorial section printed off. Can you help me?
Answer: Here are two ways to avoid printing the entire newsletter with Outlook Express. First, you can try printing certain pages of the newsletter. For instance, the virus article of this eNewsletter will be on pages one and two most of the time. In that case, choose "Print" from the "File" drop-down menu. When the print dialog box comes up, change the "Page Range" settings from "All" by clicking on the "Pages" button and entering "1-2" in the "Pages" field. This will cause only the first two pages of the eNewsletter to print. Deciding which pages to print takes some guesswork as there is no print preview option in Outlook Express.
Another option is to simply highlight the section you want to print, copy the text out of the newsletter (by choosing "Copy" from the Edit drop-down menu), and then paste the text (by choosing "Paste" from the Edit drop-down menu) into some sort of word processing document (i.e. Word, AppleWorks, etc.). Then just print that page.
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Lewis And Clark Expedition Bicentennial Celebration
http://www.lewisandclark200.gov/ - This year marks the 200th anniversary of
the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition. This site is the result of a collaborative
effort of 32 federal agencies and organizations. Cumulatively, the information
provides insightful details (journals, timelines, maps, letters, bios, etc.) on
the expedition's quest to find the best water portage solution between the heads
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Video Game Ratings And Overviews
http://esrb.org/ - The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory
body for the interactive entertainment software industry. The ESRB ratings not only
suggest age appropriateness of specific video games but also "content descriptors"
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Unique Family Vacation Attractions
http://roadsideamerica.com/ - Are you looking for some unique tourist destinations to
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Garfield Hits The Silver Screen
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again - - and now he's got his very own movie. The June 11th release of Garfield The
Movie marks the first feature film for this popular comic strip feline. (Garfield is
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Garfield. Jennifer Love Hewitt plays Dr. Liz Wilson and Breckin Meyer plays Jon
Arbuckle. The official site offers many trailers, games, production information,
e-cards, and more.
Wimbledon Championships: June 21st - July 4th
http://wimbledon.org/en_GB/index.html - The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis
Club has been hosting the Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon almost every year
since 1877. (Championships were not held during World War I and World War II.) What
started out as a garden party atmosphere attended by only a few hundred spectators,
now attracts over 500,000 fans each year, not to mention the millions across the
globe watching on television. The Club's official site is filled with history,
statistics, stories, ticket and accommodation information, vintage photography,
and virtual tours.
Gallatin River brings you another technological advancement to make your life easier, by making its telephone directories now available to you online. Simply visit www.gallatinriverdirectories.com and you can access the 2004 version of the Dixon, Galesburg and Pekin telephone directories!
A direct link to each directory is provided at the left of the homepage. Simply select which directory you wish to access, and then choose the section you wish to view: Community Information, White Page listings, Yellow Page listings/display ads, emergency telephone numbers and more!
When viewing a Yellow Pages ad, check out our new Hot Links. Hotlinks are a direct link in their ad underlined in blue that will take you directly to the advertiser’s display ad or their own website. Whether it’s automobiles or attorneys, Hot Links will take you directly to either their personal website, their display ad, or their manufacturer’s website.
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The Savanna, Lacon and Havana directories are not available online at this time.
The default setting on most e-mail software programs is to show e-mail messages in HTML format. In this format, text within the message may appear in various colors; it can be underlined, italicized, or in bold print; and it can be changed to various sizes and fonts. When multiple users amend a forwarded e-mail message, each with their own "style" of font, type size, colors, etc., the results can be quite dysfunctional.
A simple method of cleaning up a messy message like this prior to forwarding it to others is to switch the e-mail software's settings to a text-based e-mail rather than an html-based e-mail. This converts all of the text within the message to a single uniform text standard. Here's how:
Outlook Express for Windows
- Select the message from your list of messages that needs simplifying by clicking on it with your cursor arrow.
- Click on the "Forward" button. This will allow you to modify the message.
- Go to the message's "Format" menu and click your cursor arrow on it.
- When the drop-down menu appears, you will see two items about two thirds of the way down. One says "Rich Text (HTML)," and the other menu item says "Plain Text." The current setting will have a bullet in front of it. You can see the current setting is "Rich Text (HTML)." Select "Plain Text" by clicking your cursor arrow on it.
- When a warning dialog box appears warning you about changing the formatting, select the "OK" button.
- Send the message.
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