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color=#000000> <FONT size=5>October 31,
2004</FONT></FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2> <IMG height=32
alt=Security
src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/security.gif"
width=32 align=absMiddle border=0> <STRONG>AntiVir Personal
Edition</STRONG> - free home antivirus protection</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been using AVG Free Antivirus
for years now. After Dec 31, 2004 they will no longer support the
free version. I'm shopping for a new free antivirus product.
This week I'm trying out AntiVir. I've tested it and so far I've got
no complaints. I ran a complete scan last night and I was
impressed</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>. It scans inside of cabs,
zips, rars and other compressed files.
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<DIV><A href="http://www.free-av.com/">Website</A> - <A
href="http://www.avup.de/personal/en/avwinsfx.exe">Download</A> -
Quote from the website </DIV>
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<DIV>You'll be amazed how thoroughly AntiVir protects:
<BR> *detects and removes more than 80,000 viruses
<BR> *always among the winners of comparison test featured in
computer journals <BR> *the resident Virus Guard serves to
monitor file movements automatically,
<BR> e.g. downloading of data from the
internet <BR> *scanning and repair of macro viruses
<BR> *protection against previously unknown macro viruses
<BR> *safeguard against cost generating dial-up
program<BR> *protection against trojaner, worms, backdoors,
jokes and other harmful programs<BR> *easy operation
<BR> *Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating
<BR> *Protection against previously unknown boot record viruses
and master boot record viruses <BR>Quality "Made in Germany"
<BR>support is free of charge via AntiVir Bulletin
Board</FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2> <IMG height=32
alt=Disks
src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/cdtool.gif"
width=32 align=absMiddle border=0> <STRONG>GMail Drive</STRONG>
- set up a free hard drive online</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT face=Arial size=2>Review by </FONT><A
href="http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=cyberguide"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>CyberGuide</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>
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</FONT><A href="http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Website</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> -
</FONT><A href="http://www.herbsforlife.nl/download/"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Download</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> -
</FONT><A
href="http://img89.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img89&image=gmail3.gif"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>ScreenShot</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> -
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I once saw on a message board someone
wondering what is the point of having an email storage of 1
Gigabyte...Well, after I found the Gmail drive, I realised that
Uncle Google's email is extremely useful!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>GMail Drive</STRONG> is a
Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around
your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage
medium. </FONT></FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem
on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and
retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside
Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your
computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new
folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2> <IMG height=32
alt=Security
src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/security.gif"
width=32 align=absMiddle border=0> <STRONG>CWShredder
2.0</STRONG> - the return of a vital antispyware
tool</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Dutch college student </FONT><A
href="http://www.merijn.org/"><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Merijn
Bellekom</FONT></A><FONT size=2> was fighting a one
man war against the most vicious browser hijacker on the web,
CoolWebSearch. His freeware program CWShredder was able to
detect and successfully remove it. Unfortunately for us, he retired
from the fight in June and CWS has not been updated until now. He
sold the rights of the program to Intermute, an antispyware
company. They are now offering an updated version for free
download. His website was under hacker attack quite often and I
expect to see the same happen for InterMute. Download a copy now
while you still can.</FONT><FONT size=2>
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</FONT><A
href="http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html"><FONT
size=2>Website</FONT></A><FONT size=2> - </FONT><A
href="http://cwshredder.net/bin/CWSInstall.exe"><FONT
size=2>Download</FONT></A><FONT size=2> - Quote from the website
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CWShredder Version 2.0 is the latest defense against the new Cool
Web Search variants ...<BR>If you want to download the standalone
version of CWShredder, you can do that
...</FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2> <IMG alt=Email
hspace=0
src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/email09.gif"
align=absMiddle border=0> <STRONG>MrPostman</STRONG> - download
webmail from Yahoo and Hotmail into Outlook
Express</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Would you like to read your email
offline but can't do it because you have a free Hotmail or Yahoo
acount? MrPostman is a good solution. It not only handles
Yahoo, it does Hotmail as well. Right now MrPostman is bringing in 3
Hotmail and 3 Yahoo accounts for me and putting them in Outlook
Express. If you need any help setting it up, let me know.</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://mrpostman.sourceforge.net/">Website</A> - <A
href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mrpostman/install-mrpostman-20041020.jar?download">Download</A>
- Quote from the website </DIV>
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<DIV>MrPostman is a java program that allows you to access Yahoo
Mail, Hotmail and other webmail services directly from your favorite
mail client. Currently supported webmail providers: Hotmail,
mail.com, Yahoo, indiatimes.com, Gossamer mail, Outlook Web
Access</FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><IMG height=32 alt=Editors
src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/doc.gif"
width=32 align=absMiddle border=0> <STRONG>tinySpell</STRONG> -
checks your spelling in any application</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT face=Arial size=2>TinySpell is super! If you post a lot
online and wish you could check your spelling on the fly ... Wish
Granted!
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<A href="http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/">Website</A> -
<A
href="http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/#download">Download</A>
- Quote from the website
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Occasionally you need to check the spelling of words in an
application that does not include a spelling checker and you don't
want to launch your word processor just for that. This is when
tinySpell becomes handy. It is a small utility that allows you to
easily and quickly check the spelling of words in any Windows
application. tinySpell monitors your typing on the fly and alerts
you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It also checks the
spelling of every word you copy to the clipboard.<BR>tinySpell
installs itself in the system tray for easy access. It comes with an
American-English dictionary containing more than 110,000 words.
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2> <IMG height=32
alt=Games
src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/games.gif"
width=32 align=absMiddle border=0> <STRONG>Babble</STRONG> - is
just like the game "Boggle"</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is a word game for all you Boggle
players out there. Now you can practice against computer players so
that you really kick butt when playing against your friends.</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f1455.html">Website</A> -
<A
href="http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/pageN.php?nr=1455&f=babble12.zip">Download</A>
- <A
href="http://www.caiman.us/freepix/1455-1.jpg">ScreenShot</A>
- Quote from the website </DIV>
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<DIV>Babble is a freeware word game. Find as many words as possible
within the 5min time limit. The letters used must be adjacent to
each other and cannot be used more than once per word. Play alone
for the highest score or play against the five computer players.
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<DIV>To install, unzip all files into one directory and double click
babble.exe to start the
game.</FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2> <IMG alt=Website
hspace=0
src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/website.gif"
align=absMiddle border=0> <STRONG>thefreecountry.com</STRONG> -
Free Programmers, Webmasters and Security
Resources</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is an excellent source for all
kinds of freebies for those of us with the geek streak.</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/">Website</A> - Quote
from the website </DIV>
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<DIV>Welcome to thefreecountry.com's collection of free programming
resources, free webmasters' resources and free security resources.
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src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/security.gif"
width=32 align=absMiddle border=0> <STRONG>The EZ-Emoticons
Challenge #01</STRONG> - make a program run without spyware
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<P>A recent online aquaintence challenged me to help him use a
spyware program that he likes. I would not recommend or condone the
use of "hacked" software, so I'm hoping there may be an
easy fix that does not involve any changes to the EZ-Emoticons code
and doesn't violate the EULA. You know what this means don't you?
I'm going to intentionally infect my pc with spyware (Yikes!). I've
done this before, both on purpose and by accident, so I'm
fairly confident I can handle it. Some of the tools I'll be using
are listed here. <A
href="http://www.snapfiles.com/get/msnmess.html">MSN Messenger</A>,
<A href="http://www.snapfiles.com/get/totaluninstall.html">Total
Uninstall</A>, <A
href="http://www.snapfiles.com/get/hijackthis.html">HiJackThis</A>,
<A
href="http://www.snapfiles.com/get/netmon.html">NetMon</A> and
others I'll mention as we go along.
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<DIV>I installed MSN Messenger and and used NetMon to find the IP
addresses it uses when it connects to the internet. Next I fired up
Total Uninstall (TUN) and installed EZ-Emoticon. I read the EULA for
the software and it states clearly you have to install 180Search
Assistant to use EZ-Emoticons, but that it can be uninstalled.
So if you don't want it follow these <A
href="http://www.180searchassistant.com/uninstall.html">uninstall</A>
instructions. But, that's not the only thing I found.<BR><BR>While
it was installing I noticed it triggered <A
href="http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml">StartupMonitor</A> three
times asking for executables to start in the autorun areas of my pc.
I allowed them to add the startup entries because I knew I could
remove everything with TUN. After the install of EZ-Emoticons, I
watched the internet IP's that it was using to contact it's servers
out on the web and noted the addresses. I'm guessing that if a
person can block these addresses, the spyware cannot function
properly if it can't download more stuff to add to your problems. To
block the addresses a person should only have to add them to the <A
href="http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm">Windows HOSTS</A>
file and point them at the local machine. Here are the lines that
should be added to the HOSTS
file.<BR><BR>127.0.0.1
209.164.32.205.ptr.us.xo.net</DIV>
<DIV>127.0.0.1
web104.discountasp.net<BR><BR>There's no guarantee that this will
keep the spyware in check but it's worth a try.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>I've got a couple more ideas to try out and I'll let you
know what happens later. In the mean time if you are using
EZ-Emoticons, I'd recommend you uninstall it and do the following
things before reinstalling it. Update your AntiSpyware and AntiVirus
programs and boot into safe mode then do complete system scans.
After the scans and booting into normal mode you can add the HOST
file entries above and try re-installing EZ-Emoticons. Then
uninstall 180Search Assistant if you want to. </DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=eripmav">Website</A> -
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<DIV>hi Clif, </DIV>
<P></P>
<P>actually i may have a little problem that you may like to try
solving (i'm sure you thrive on challenges =) )</P>
<P>i have this add-on for MSN that allows you to bring up a
side menu with all your emoticons for easy browsing and usage ...
problem is, it comes with spyware. I used Spybot and SpySweeper to
get rid of them, but the come back after a while.</P>
<P>the name of program is EZ-Emoticons <BR><A
href="http://www.sherv.net/EZ-Emoticons.html" target=_blank><FONT
color=#0033cc>http://www.sherv.net/EZ-Emoticons.html</FONT></A></P>
<P>some of the spyware that gets installed include
180solutionsncasemsbb and two others that get installed in WINDOWS
which are xspub.exe and bkr.exe .... i think these stem from a file
called 441725257.edat that gets installed at Program Files ...
deleting this causes the program not to work .. </P>
<P>maybe you can have a play and see if there's a way to work around
this =)</P>
<P>thanks for your time Clif, and no hurries, i'm sure you must be a
real busy person =)</P>
<P>have a good one! </P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><STRONG><FONT
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your PC</STRONG> - jokes from IndiaTimes.com</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is some infectious humor from our
friends in India. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(link suggested by <A
href="http://www.vsubhash.com">VSubhash</A>)</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://live.indiatimes.com/ppt/121004a/index.html">Website</A>
- Quote from the website </DIV>
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<DIV>Is your system acting abruptly? It may be infected by one or
more of these viruses... </FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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align=absMiddle border=0> <STRONG>HamsterDance</STRONG> -
little creatures dancing and singing</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just don't know what to say about this
website, but everyone should visit this site at least once,
especially young children. LOL
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<A href="http://www.bellydanceny.com/Hamsterdance.htm">Website</A> -
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<IMG style="WIDTH: 60px; HEIGHT: 70px" alt=HamsterDance hspace=0
src="http://img99.exs.cx/img99/9849/hamu.gif" align=absMiddle
border=0> Hamster
Dance - Dancing the Night Away</FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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