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1. Member s Std Bus Card 100 00 for 4 consecutive insertions No Discounts Ad sizes must be in full column width and in one inch depth increments Discount Rate Three consecutive insertions 10 Twelve consecutive insertions 20 Special discounts offered to Corporate KIPCUG Call members In addition to other discounts All Advertising must be paid for at the time of submission or on approved PO Rates are for electronic TIF PDF copy in gray scale The submission deadline for advertising materials is the first of the month for the next month s publication Send all advertising materials to KIPCUG Address Attn Editor Call 502 499 5222 or send email to editor kipcug org Magazine Submissions Articles should be submitted as a Word document and submitted one month in advance If graphics are included they should be submitted in TIF file format whenever possible All graphics must be converted to TIF or PDF file formats before publication KIPCUG Supporters Please support them with your business The vendors listed have contributed hardware or software to KIPCUG to assist in production of the organization s monthly newsletter We encourage you to support these vendors who are helping to support our organization Lexmark Optra R Laser Printer Adobe PageMaker 6 5 Contributing Staff Writers J udy Lococo Brian Miller George Buehler The Association of Personal Computer User Groups KIPCUG is a member of APCU
2. secretary kipcug org treasurer kipcug org judy1 thorobred win net t denning insightbb com geezer insightbb com sigs kipcug org mooresk win net editor kipcug org webmaster kipcug org mike aye net aqviele win net beverly advanced grinding com eckrus bellsouth net khubler win net ajbirch bellsouth net mccampion aol com jewel win net gmccormick win net Preferred flavereising insightbb com britude techemail com tpscan iglou com mjslks insightbb com jim travelstead louisville edu For Your Information Changes for mailing address email address or telephone numbers should be sent to Tom Denning Director of Membership You can send the change to the KIPCUG mailing address printed on the back of this Magazine or by email to t denning insightbb com Computer User News July 2005 Page 14 Nd 00 2 1 due sbunaay uooul yy Ily Nd 0 9 te ase sbunaay Aepii4 Aepuow iy Kudesbogoy 4 psig S15 5154jeuy SIS sasn NS Shyer Janey Euy L apaau DE GT BE fe oF EE FE 1 k Hig awr eg aas man 00 7 515 als Sls 5 5 UG SPUEH SJ8 5EWTSM SEs E ABojeausg FT cz IZ oz 6T ET il 5 Bugseauy Olid gig wasn SIS spag HIS ang suzeBeyy pasUgApiy ABgjesuag jo pigog sas MAN JO say oT ET FI FI ET IT 0T 00 04 915 SS OS Punas SUL paas0eg s5200 ose SO SMOpUIM gaseg ESI palsuag DIS AlEMpJEH 6 B Pi E S007 usr ERINES SERSIMU
3. sions Crossover Office does NOT require a copy of Windows to work All the others do VMWare never did load on my system as I could not find one com patible with the kernal version I am using and I do not have sufficient knowledge to recompile one myself besides who wants to bother That leaves the two versions of Win4Lin regular and Professional The regu lar version works with all the DOS based Windows up to and including Windows ME The Pro version works with Windows 2000 and XP I did find that loading WINDOWS XP in the pro version was about like loading Windows 3 1 on my old 286 S l o w It loaded Windows 2000 about the speed it loaded on my P3 I am running an Athlon T bread 2600 with 1G of memory Under Windows XP when I tried to load my program I received the message Catastrophic Failure What the Hey Under 2000 it installed but when run would fail with ActiveX could not create a database module I spoke to one of the programmers of my program and he never heard of the first and could not suggest how to fix the second As a matter of fact he asked me to call him if I had any success in porting it over He knows of no one else even trying Figures I could devote several pages to just this area but not now This whole area is very FRUSTRATING Keep tuned and I may present more Adventures in Linux land in the near future That is if I don t find playing more appealing than writ ing T
4. Contact SIG LEADER Jim Travelstead at jim travelstead louisville edu or 852 4761 W 375 4796 H INVESTING SIG Meets 6 30 PM the 2nd Thursday of the month at the Louisville Aero Club Bowman Field Contact SIG LEADER Doc Viele at 452 6878 LINUX SIG Meetings on Hold Meets at a loca tion and time to be determined Co SIG LEADERS Rob Coffey and Jacob Wilkins Contact TEAM MEM BER Jack Link at redoscar3 yahoo com NEW USERS SIG Meets 6 30 PM on the 2nd Monday of the month at the NHCLC at 10200 Linn Station Road in Suite 110 of the Triad East Bldg Contact SIG LEADER Charley May at sig win net NEW USERS DAYTIME SIG NEW Meets 2 00 PM on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at CCUM at 4614 Brownsboro Road US 42 amp Blankenbaker Lane in the Computer Lab Room 222 Contact SIG LEADER Winnie Miller at winnie miller att net PDA SIG Meetings on Hold Meets 6 30 PM on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at a location to be deter mined Contact SIG DIRECTOR Brian Miller at sigs kipcug org or 749 5892 REAL ESTATE SIG NEW New Date Location Meets 6 30 PM on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at CCUM at 4614 Brownsboro Road US 42 amp Blankenbaker Lane in the Computer Lab Room 222 Contact SIG LEADER Bill Buzan at re_sig insightbb com or 639 7647 TECHNICAL MARKET ANALYSIS SIG Meets 6 30 PM on the 4th Tuesday of the month at Louisville Free Public Library Crescent Hill Branch 2752 Frankfort Avenue in the lower level meeting ro
5. It is now too late because that first click on the attachment rather than open ing a zip file and displaying the pho tos planted a nasty backdoor Trojan on your computer Nibu D Through a process known in the industry as Human Engineering an innocent victim was tricked into installing unwanted software onto his comput er In this particular case the accounts logged onto EBay or other shopping sites your personal infor mation may have been compro mised and you may become a vic tim of identity theft Every day for the past several weeks I have received some appar ently urgent emails seemingly from my internet service provider ISP They come addressed from admin istrator support customer ser vice or some similar official sounding individual at the ISP They carry dire warnings in the subject line that my email account will be or has been suspended for a variety of infractions ranging from failure to follow an unspecified rule sending excessive spam or some other major infraction The poorly worded message is Once you have com pleted the form in the attached file your account records will not be interrupted and will continue as nor mal and has a 65k attachment doc ument zip Another slight variation refers to following directions in a file ranging from 43k to 65k in size with the file name email reading and sending dozens per day Email is important to me and since it is from my ISP I g
6. Basics In addition we will also have the User to User session Please be sure to bring your written questions to the meeting Some of our members may be able to help answer your questions After the meeting when we dis tribute door prizes the KIPCUG Membership Drawing will be awarded to a lucky member with paid up dues if they are in atten dance Since the prize is 300 please do not be a wish I had been there member MEETING DIRECTIONS Christ Church United Methodist 4614 Brownsboro Road From I 264 Watterson X Way take the US 42 Brownsboro Road exit number 22 turning left onto Brownsboro Road if you were traveling East on I 264 turn right instead if you were traveling West on I 264 Continue for about 0 6 miles turning left at the traffic light at Blankenbaker Lane and turn left into the Church parking lot Look for the signs Maps are at www ccum net and www kipcug org Page 3 July 2005 Computer User News Over the Program Director s Shoulder cont Thanks to Dave Whittle for a superb meeting last month I don t think anybody was asleep in that one Dave was definitely tuckered out at the PIG SIG after but his appetite wasn t Perhaps we can persuade him to return sometime next year Future Meetings Things in the Crystal Ball are Apple IPod Gene amp Linda Barlow Corel We have been busy Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2005 By George Buehler KIPCUG I hav
7. Scan www pandasoftware com and Trendmicro s Housecall house call antivirus com will likely detect and remove Smitfraud It is impor tant to periodically do one of the free online scans to ensure that mal ware such as Smitfraud and CWS YEXE did not slip through the barrier defenses of antivirus and anti spyware software When first detected Smitfraud spread very rapidly likely infecting computers before the antivirus companies could issue updates to their signa ture files leaving computers vulner able until such updates could be downloaded and installed This is Extortion cont explicitly one of the key reasons why I suggest that everyone period ically run one of the free online virus scans regardless of the antivirus software installed and the frequency of updates In several past issues I have writ ten about the popular and excellent free anti spyware product Spybot Search amp Destroy Spybot recently released version 1 4 of its program lately Thank you Have you noticed how well sound carries at the General Meeting Well we did and apparantly so did YOU The staff and management of KIPCUG would like to say Thank you to our members for keeping the noise level down during the registration process The Board of Directors has decid ed that all meeting registration will cease at 7 00 PM to limit the amount of noise coming the Registration Tables from We apologize to everyon
8. a mini mum of a 150 MHz processor 300 MHz for XP The user s manual lists a system requirement of 180 MB of available disk space with an additional 200 MB plus 10 of total disk space for GoBack This is quite a bit of storage space for one utility suite that appears to be a duplication of Microsoft restore As is my usual practice prior to loading any new or updated soft ware I cleared my internet cache files removed the cookies on my hard disk ran Spybot and Ad aware nothing unusual detected by either then ran the Microsoft Disk Defragmenter I then established a system restore point prior to loading the SystemWorks 2005 Premier If you have a SystemWorks ver sion earlier than 2003 it must be removed manually prior to installa tion of 2005 premier For the 2003 or 2004 version SystemWorks 2005 removes the previous versions dur ing the initial installation If you have Norton Password manager installed the installation routine gives you the option of saving your password list in encrypted form then you have to reinstall password manager after the installation of SystemWorks When you insert the installation disk you choose the installation of SystemWorks GoBack Checkit Diagnostics Performance Test or launch utilities from the CD in case of an emergency problem During installation you have the option of a custom install of the SystemWorks programs This enables you to remove installation of one or
9. is espe cially nefarious is that the virus will display on the desktop the wp bmp image which will appear to be an authentic Windows system message in the form of the infamous blue screen of death stating that there has been a fatal error This blue screen will announce that the com puter is infected with Trojan Spy HTML Smitfraud c and that in order to remove the Trojan the copy of PSGuard Anti spyware Computer User News July 2005 Page 12 must be purchased and registered and then the hard drive can be scanned and the malicious Trojan removed As of this writing the website listed to register and pay for the alleged anti spyware product PSGuard is currently inaccessible but that does not mean that the next iteration of this scam will not direct the user to a different website Panda Lab s Luis Corrons stated on the Panda website This spy ware is quite unusual in the way it operates In fact it is the second known program of this type capable of infecting files Nevertheless its real objective is to trick users for financial gain Today s creators of malware are motivated solely by money and have no hesitation in using any tactic in order to achieve their aims For this reason users should keep their guard up at all times Fortunately most of the currently updated antivirus and anti spyware products can protect from or detect and kill the Smitfraud Trojan The free online scans such as Panda s Active
10. more than just website text searches and calculator functions it also has a variety of other services Subsidiary sites of Google are searchable for news con tent news google com images and photos images google com and bargains froogle com One of my personal favorites is maps google com where street maps and driving directions can be gener ated One interesting feature is that street maps can be shown in the con ventional map format or in terms of a Satellite image If I type 795 Willow Street Beaumont TX in the search box of maps google com a zoomable street map centered on 795 Willow is created with the zoom control on the top left of the image Other functions are avail able at this point a balloon appears over the location with Directions To here From here which can cre ate turn by turn directions either from local points or elsewhere on the continent On the top right of the map page is a link Satellite clicking on the link will convert the traditional road map into a satellite image This satellite image can also be zoomed in for more detail up to the maximum resolution of the image or zoomed out to a panoramic view from space Google as well as the other search engines offer a wealth of informa tion in addition to the traditional text based searches Adventures in Linux land By Siles Bazerman APCUG Representative Orange County IBM PC Users Group California and APCU
11. was a card to purchase a three year extended Consideration is being given to offering a computer gaming or an Instant Messaging focus to this group to stimulate youth interest If you have children or grandchil dren with a desire for some addi tional computer activities we want to hear from you Please con tinue checking the KIPCUG web site for the latest information at www KIPCUG org Saturday meet ings are the likely dates for this SIG The DealsGuy warranty for 14 95 Stores don t let you open the box to read the war ranty but they might show you a copy or refer you to a URL Email Problem Fixed I got the run a round from Earthlink tech support trying to get my old Eudora e mail program back in operation when it stopped work ing They said port options could not be changed for their new servers true I downloaded Eudora s ver sion 6 2 1 2 sponsored free e mail program to try Eudora has a link to Earthlink s own Web site for a tuto rial to set up the Eudora product but it still didn t work right I later bought the paid version and Eudora s tech support walked me through steps to make the change that Farthlink s tech support said couldn t be done in ver 6 2 either It involved copying and pasting a file to get the option That can also be done on the sponsored version That info is on their Web site In all Earthlink s tech support was no help To sign up younger members or to volunteer your a
12. will be July 19 from 2 00 to 4 00 in the Computer Lab Room 222 at CCUM As we are having new learners along with some of our regulars we try and meet the needs of each individual We prac tice working and saving documents Page 21 July 2005 Computer User News The SIG Scene cont We practice moving folders and cutting and pasting information We work on the differences between dragging and dropping and cutting and pasting Some have learned to insert pic tures backgrounds and colors on their documents in Word The com puters have been improved and I understand that all now have Word installed Some genealogy pro grams have been discussed and one member learned how to install his GEDCOM in Roots Magic Genealogy is not usually included or discussed in our SIG as there are many different programs We also discuss and practice some of the lessons offered by the 599CD s If Word is a challenge these lessons offer assistance If you are just starting out finding your programs opening and closing programs and using your mouse this SIG tries to give you as much help as possible We are hands on We meet from 2 00 to 4 00 on the third Tuesday of the month in the Computer Lab Room 222 at CCUM Important Please mark your cal endars starting in September with the new day for our NEW USERS DAYTIME SIG It will be the third MONDAY of the month starting in SEPTEMBER To be added to the email list pl
13. 6 30 PM on the 2nd Friday of the month at CCUM Contact SIG DIRECTOR Brian Miller at sigs kipcug org or 749 5892 GENEALOGY SIG Meets 6 30 PM on the 3rd Monday of the month at the LFPL Eline Branch at St Matthews City Hall Building at the corner of Grandview Ave and Fairfax Ave about 3 blocks south of Shelbyville Rd Contact SIG LEADER Susan Moore at 499 5222 or mooresk win net www win net mooresk GENEALOGY TI SIG Meets 6 30 PM on the 2nd Thursday of the month at the LFPL Jeffersontown Branch 10635 Watterson Trail Contact SIG LEADER Susan Moore at 499 5222 or mooresk win net HANDS ON SIG NEW Meets 2 00 PM the 4th Saturday of the month at the LFPL Eline Branch at St Matthews City Hall Building at the corner of Grandview Ave amp Fairfax Ave 3 blocks south of Shelbyville Rd Contact Co SIG LEADERS Charley May at sig win net or Grant McCormick at gmccormick win net or Tom McArdle at usersig insightbb com Miller at Computer User News July 2005 Page 16 HARDWARE SIG Meets 6 30 PM the 1st Monday of the month at the LFPL Eline Branch at St Matthews City Hall Building the corner of Grandview Ave Fairfax Ave 3 blocks south of Shelbyville Rd Contact Co SIG LEADERS Grant McCormick at gmccormick win net or Charley May at sig win net or 425 4604 INTERMEDIATE USERS SIG Meets 6 30 PM on the 4th Monday of the month at CCUM at 4614 Brownsboro Road US 42 amp Blankenbaker Lane in the Computer Lab Room 222
14. COMPUTERS Monthly Publication of the Kentucky Indiana Personal Computer Users Group July 2005 Volume 24 No 7 Program Director 3 Symantec SystemWorks 2005 5 Google More Than A Simple Search Engine 6 Adventures in Linux land 7 Don t Fall For Human Engineering 9 Computer Hysteria Crash 11 Extortion a New Twist for Computer Malware 12 Thank you 13 Board of Directors 13 DIRCI o000 sss cs asa 14 falendar 15 SIG Directory 16 MENGI Ii swa 17 ATEN 009400 17 Advanced Users 17 Genealogy 19 HAndSOn 19 Intermediate 20 Investing 21 INEWUSETS 0 asa 21 Real Estate 22 Technical Market Analysis 22 URES ooa oa NT 23 Visual Basic 23 Webmasters 24 Windows OS 24 The DealsGuy 25 Membership Application 27 Wi Fi Louisville Presented by Brian Oldham J uly 5 2005 General Public is invited to attend Free Program Starts at 6 30 PM Directions Page 3 www kipcug org KIPCUG Advertising Rates for Magazine Ad size Rate NOTE Magazine is published electronically Per 1 col inch 2 25 wide 12 00 in nr to its sate mies cog Gia materials not supplied in electronic form wi a 3 col x 5 Haha not be included in the electronic edition ull Page
15. G an international association of computer user groups Information is available at www apcug org Computer User News July 2005 Page 2 KENTUCKY INDIANA PERSONAL COMPUTER USERS GROUP INC 291 N HUBBARDS LANE SUITE B 26 318 LOUISVILLE KY 40207 EDITOR SUSAN MOORE This magazine is published monthly by the Kentucky Indiana Personal Computer Users Group Inc and is intended principally for its membership All articles in this publication are copyrighted by KIPCUG unless otherwise stipu lated Express permission is granted for qualified User Groups to copy the materials in this publication pro vided appropriate credit is given to KIPCUG Computer User News and the author Requests from individuals or organizations other than User Groups for permission to reprint should be made to the Editor Advertising materials must be submitted four weeks prior to pub lication Editorial submissions must be submitted three weeks prior to publication All editorial materials submitted become the property of KIPCUG and may be used by the organiza tion in any way deemed appropri ate by the magazine staff and the Board of Directors of KIPCUG The editors reserve the right to make any changes deemed neces sary to any editorial matter submit ted or to refuse publication of any material submitted Direct all magazine correspon dence to the Editor at KIPCUG 291 N Hubbards Lane Suite B 26 318 Louisv
16. G Editorial Committee As many of you know I became bored with Windows XP a while ago Bored with both writing about it and actually using it Windows went from Gee look what I found in Windows 3 to using an appliance in Windows XP with the release of SP2 Very usable but not much fun to play with I decided to give Linux another try The first time was with Red Hat 3 back in 1998 1999 At that time it was not ready for Prime Time and there was still a lot to discover in Windows 98 and 98SE Also there were only one or two other distros distributions available and little in the way of a GUI so you used most ly command line Now there are many many distros out there some commercial and some free Red Hat went commer cial but is available as Fedora for free download One of the more popular free distros is Debian Debra and Ian Murdock authors It too is available in several vari eties The two most useful for beginners to Linux are Knoppix and SimplyMepis I use the latter Both of these are downloadable fit on one CD with a number of useable programs and can run from the CD without installing on your hard drive You can also install them if you so desire After downloading Mepis using it and finally installing it I decided I needed more information than was available on line I found a book Point and Click Linux by Robin Miller that was written to exactly parallel the CD For less than 22 from Barnes an
17. L Ep33Up3M AEp3EN yauue d 9NOdIM S00 Ainr n 5 vo Z Sai Q n fm vo br 5 EY Q IN S a Page 15 July KIPCUG Special Interest Group Directory ACCESS PROGRAMMING SIG Meetings on Hold Meets at a date and location to be determined Contact SIG DIRECTOR Brian sigs kipcug org or 749 5892 ADVANCED USERS SIG Meets 6 30 PM on the 3rd Friday of the month at CCUM at 4614 Brownsboro Road US 42 amp Blankenbaker Lane in the Computer Lab Room 222 Contact SIG LEADER Tom Scanlan at 1 502 477 1639 or tpscan iglou com BASIC ACCESS SIG Meets 10 00 AM on the 2nd Saturday of the month at NHCLC at 10200 Linn Station Road in the Triad East Bldg Contact SIG LEADER Alan Birch at ajbirch bellsouth net or 429 0506 BASIC EXCEL SIG Meetings on Hold Meets 6 30 PM on the Ist Friday of the month at CCUM at 4614 Brownsboro Road US 42 amp Blankenbaker Lane in the Computer Lab Room 222 Contact Co SIG LEADER Flave Reising at flavereising insightbb com COMMUNITY OUTREACH SIG Meets on the 4th Friday of specified months at Advanced Grinding and Machine Inc 4644 Illinois Avenue Contact TEAM MEMBER Beverly Setree at 452 9851 or beverly advanced grinding com DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SIG Meets 6 30 PM on the 4th Tuesday of the month at the LFPL Bon Air Regional 2816 Del Rio Place Contact SIG DIRECTOR Brian Miller at sigs kipcug org or 749 5892 EXCEL INTERMEDIATE SIG Meetings on Hold Meets
18. Light DSL Standard DSL X 2 Dial Up with 5X Acceleration Available in Kentucky and Southern Indiana 6MB DSL and 199 DSL T1 s Available in Southern Indiana 502 815 7000 7 Days a Week Possibly the best tech support in the business PC Magazine Free Seminars ON Q ON 5 QO or om lt 3 Page 11 July 2005 Computer User News Extortion a New Twist tor Computer Malware By Ira Wilsker APCUG Websites http www spywarewarrior com rogue_anti spyware htm http www spywarewarrior com orphans_outcasts htm http www pandasoftware com about press viewNews aspx noti cia 6304 http www antivirusworld com http www virusportal com com virusinfo encyclopedia overview as px lst vis amp idvirus 77495 http www safer networking org Recently you may have heard or read from the mass media about a nasty little virus that encrypted crit ical data files on a victim computer and offered the decryption key for 200 This attack was short lived as the source of the virus was quick ly shut down There has been no news on any criminal prosecutions in this case which is par for the course While not the first time that computer malware has been used in an extortion attempt this incident rapidly became the most widely publicized case which may have spawned copycats or given others the idea of a way to illicit riches Now we find another recent exam ple of alleged extorti
19. MING SIG assumes a good working knowledge of Access and focuses on programming and advanced techniques If you would like to be notified of the restart of this SIG you can con tact SIG DIRECTOR Brian Miller at sigs kipcug org Include ACCESS PROGRAMMING SIG in the subject line of your email 5892 The SIG Scene ADVANCED USERS SIG The topic for the July 15 ADVANCED USERS SIG which meets at 6 30 PM in the Computer Lab Room 222 at Christ Church United Methodist CCUM will be announced by email The June Meeting of the ADVANCED USERS SIG was a review of hot new hardware New chips motherboards and firewalls have produced faster and safer PC s The ADVANCED USERS SIG explores software and hardware top ics of interest to people that are very comfortable with their computers who want to know even more We encourage everyone to share their experiences so we can all learn and grow in areas we would not normal ly explore on our own We meet in the Computer Lab Room 222 at Christ Church United Methodist CCUM on the third Friday of the month Add yourself to our email alert list by self register ing at groups yahoo com group KIPCUGAdvUsers or contact Tom at tpscan iglou com Please use ADVANCED USERS SIG in the subject line of your email CE BASIC ACCESS SIG The next meeting of the BASIC ACCESS SIG is July 9 at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center at 10 00 AM The topic will be a review o
20. OUT REACH SIG has been designed to take donations of computer equip ment and restore it to working con dition These computers can then be distributed to people in need We are always looking for donations Even if you think there is no value in your old computer contact us and let us take it off your hands We also welcome people willing to help restore computers for redistribu tion This SIG has provided PCs to dis advantaged residents of the area and will continue to provide a valu able service to the community Your participation is greatly appreciated The SIG meets at Advanced Grinding and Machine Inc 4644 Illinois Ave in Louisville at 6 30 PM on the fourth Friday of odd numbered months except November To be added to the SIG s advance mailing list contact TEAM MEMBER Beverly Setree beverly advanced grinding com Place the words COMMUNITY OUTREACH SIG in the subject line of your email ol DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SIG The next meeting of the DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SIG will meet June 28 at 6 30 PM at the LFPL Bon Air Branch Library We will continue with the program format similar to the General Meetings where we have a section of the time reserved for basics and questions with the remaining time for improv ing the quality of your pictures Remember our goal is to learn and enjoy We will continue looking at the camera equipment we already own Just received or hope possibly to purchase in the future W
21. PM at the Bon Air Regional Branch of the LFPL 2816 Del Rio Place will con tinue our look at SIG LEADER Martin Campion s game Rails West and we may take the oppor tunity to review the progress on a multi page Web site Martin is developing called WesternPeaksCal Net The group will continue its work on the SIG project On June 2 Martin was prepared to show the group his Rails West game but the night became a self directed meeting Those present had the opportunity to have their ques tions on VB resolved The planned topic was moved back to the July meeting The VISUAL BASIC SIG meets monthly on the first Thursday at 6 30 PM at the Bon Air Regional Page 23 July 2005 Computer User News The SIG Scene cont Branch of the LFPL 2816 Del Rio Place To be added to the email list for a reminder of meetings and top ics planned contact SIG LEADER Martin Campion at mccampion aol com Add the words VB SIG to the subject line of your email WEBMASTERS SIG During our July 21 meeting at 6 30 PM at the Win Net offices John Henderson will discuss how Affiliate and Reseller Programs work There are thousands of web sites offering you an opportunity to make money selling their products using links on your web site We will explore how they work Leads affiliate reseller or commissions may have an impact on you as the webmaster and on the products you currently offer from Amazon to the opportunity i
22. SIG is to pro vide property owners and investors the opportunity to gain a greater insight into their transactions by interaction with others so they can protect and guide their endeavors more effectively Future meetings will continue this theme and expand into other aspects of this important subject If you have any subjects related to Real Estate that you would like to have on the agenda for discussion or would like to be added to our mailing list please send your request to Bill Buzan at re sig insightbb com The REAL ESTATE SIG meets monthly on the third Tuesday in the Computer Lab Room 222 at CCUM at 6 30 PM CCUM is at 4614 Brownsboro Road US 42 at the Blankenbaker Lane traffic light Directions are on the KIPCUG web site at www kipcug org EE TECHNICAL MARKET ANALYSIS SIG At the July 26 meeting we will use our technical indicators to try to determine the near term direction of the market and to hone our skills using these indicators with every one s input We use a group discus sion format to answer everyone s The SIG Scene cont questions and let everyone tell how they use the indicators The June 28 meeting will contin ue our ongoing discussion of math ematical analysis of market trends Members will share the tools that they have found to be successful in analyzing today s market Additional information will be announced by email to all members on our list With the late date of th
23. ame Address City Home Phone Work Phone If you wish to pay by Visa or MasterCard Card Signature Membership Application Page 27 July 2005 Computer User News ACCESSORIES MODEMS amp CUSTOM BUILT MICE amp INPUT SVGA COMMUNICATIONS COMPUTERS DEVICES MONITORS LOUISVILLE S FINEST CHOICE FOR ALL YOUR x COMPUTER NEEDS NOTEBOOKS gt KEYBOARDS MEMORY MULTIMEDIA JOYSTICKS pay o F 10am 6pm est SHOW YOUR KIPCUG BY A QUALIFIED Louisville Ky 4021 6 Sat 11 am 4pm est MEMBERSHIP CARD TECHNICIAN ON TO RECEIVE AN ALL HARDWARE CUSTOM 502 448 9397 Ga ADDED DISCOUNT Masabi COMPUTERS WWW seccomputer com O Wing FREE INSTALLATION C 4760 Rockford Plaza Showroom Hours DON T FORGET TO The next General Meeting will be on Tuesday J uly 5 2005 6 30 PM 4614 Brownsboro Road Louisville KY Presentation Wi Fi Louisville KIPCUG 291 N Hubbards Lane a Hala Suite B 26 318 Paid Louisville KY 40207 Louisville KY Permit No 1299 Address Service Requested
24. at CCUM will give us a chance to complete an upgrade from Windows ME to a current Windows XP operating system SIG LEADER Bob Rose will show the SIG the problems that occurred at our Friday the 13th attempt in May and what is needed to resolve such issues If you are running with Windows 98 or ME join the group and see just what is involved in this Computer User News July 2005 Page 24 upgrade before trying it on your machine The June 10 meeting gave us a chance to explore some features included in Service Pack 2 for Windows XP Windows Media Center and optional Movie Maker are powerful tools provided to XP users SIG LEADER Bob Rose dis cussed the basics of this Service Pack and why it should be on every XP system The group will focus on maintain ing and updating the various Windows OS s to keep them per forming at peak efficiency While our direction will be forward ques tions and topics for older formats will be part of the topic list we intend to cover The SIG includes topics covering Windows Operating Systems from Windows 95 though XP SP2 with an emphasis on changing technolo gy Time is always reserved to resolve problems and answer ques tions members bring to the meeting To be sure we can get to your par ticular issue please contact SIG LEADER Bob Rose britdude techemail com by email a few days before the meeting so he can have members prepared to address your problem The WINDOWS OS SIG c
25. at it might look like This program provides an advisor to look over your shoulder very helpful This program also works with other popular genealogy software Since TMG version 6 is now available we have switched to ver sion 6 Now is the time to jump in so that you get all of the tips and tricks The GENEALOGY SIG meets at the LFPL Eline Branch at 6 30 PM on the third Monday each month SIG LEADER Susan Moore and all of the SIG s attendees are looking for YOU to join us at a future meet ing If you have any particular ques tions before the next meeting please email SIG LEADER Susan Moore at mooresk win net If you want a map or directions on how to get to the GENEALOGY SIG go to www win net mooresk E GENEALOGY II SIG The GENEALOGY II SIG will have its next meeting on July 14 and will continue to meet monthly on the second Thursday at 6 30 PM at the Louisville Free Public Library Jeffersontown Branch The GENEALOGY II SIG had its last meeting on June 9 This SIG is going to be an infor mal Q amp A session without any handouts Topics are not announced ahead of time because the partici pants will determine the content of the meeting Short subjects may be presented from time to time when there are insufficient questions If you have any particular ques tions before the next meeting please email SIG LEADER Susan Moore at mooresk win net If you want a map or directions on how to get to the SIG g
26. d Nobel on line I received the book a CD exactly the same as the download and an instructional DVD The distro uses the KDE K Desktop Environment and includes several editors Open Office Suite similar to Microsoft Office but free a CD DVD writing program GIMP graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program and Mozilla web browser There are numerous other programs included but I have listed the main ones Also you can download and install many other programs free to enhance or replace the ones on the CD If all you want to do is send and receive email browse the web do some word processing or similar things then you can use Mepis as installed Web browsing is relatively virus free and almost totally popup free Both Mozilla and its successor Firebox are also available for Windows but windows update will not work in any other browser but IE Linux is relatively free of virus es for two reasons First it repre sents only a very small percent of desktop installations and virus writ ers want the biggest bang for the buck so they don t bother Second you work in Linux as a user but all changes to the system must be done as either an administrator or super user which are not accessible from outside and are password protected Also the browser does not allow popups This would be labeled EASY Page 7 July 2005 Computer User News Adventures in Linux land cont If you wish to do customization o
27. data gbronline com Crash Crash That was the sound of Stephen King s sledgehammer bashing the car that hit him while jogging Perhaps he thought Christine from his earlier horror novel had come back to haunt him Crash also strikes terror in the hearts of computer users According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project approximately two thirds of Americans use the Internet and about 87 of them through con nections in their homes While there is no research data on the number of computer users that cannot master their computers there is evidence of anger and frustration with comput ers that could escalate into what one psychologist calls computer rage University of Maryland Professor Kent Norman says Men and women are taking out their frustra tions on the computer and unfortu nately sometimes misdirecting it to other people Norman who directs the Laboratory of Automation Psychology and Decision Processes at the University conducted an online survey where twenty percent of the respondents admitted they dropped a computer on the floor out of anger They described smashing microwaving and cursing their com puters One claimed he threw his laptop in a fryer and several claimed to have shot hardware The study further suggested computer users were most annoyed by e mail sna fus including spam waiting while a computer completed a simple task having to redo something because of a glitch and having to upg
28. der Brian Oldham s leadership his team has developed and deployed innovative products that help governments communi cate with their constituents and improve processes within criminal justice organizations Brian has a unique appreciation for customer service and manages a team of 70 people who support over 15 appli cations in over 1500 locations across 37 states and at the federal level Brian has a broad background in application development and information technology manage ment Prior to joining Appriss Brian Oldham was part of the man agement team at General Electric Appliances and was responsi z WERE YOU THERE ble for the development and ON MAY 3 management of technical infrastructure and engineering THE NAME DRAWN WAS applications for the company TOM ANTHONY His successes there included pi improving the Internet infra ADVISORS MORTGAGE structure and implementing a AND HE WAS NOT In pro active systems manage ment infrastructure Before l ATTENDANCE l that he was vice president at Providian Corporation and l NEXT MONTH l worked for Keane Consulting s THE PRIZE WILL BE a and NCR Corp Brian Oldham 300 graduated with a B S in Management from Purdue L WILL YOU BE THERE University in 1988 Brian is experienced in 6 sigma DMAIC and DFSS quality improvement programs and he has completed the IT Service Management Foundations training This presentation will follow the Back to
29. e SIG meeting and potential market fluctuations email is the best way to inform all of our discussion top ics The TECHNICAL MARKET ANALYSIS SIG meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month except December at 6 30 PM at the Louisville Free Public Library Crescent Hill Branch 2752 Frankfort Ave in the lower level meeting room For more information on meetings or topic information contact SIG LEADER Myron Smith at 897 7718 or email him at mjslks insightbb com to be added to the email distribution list New attendees are encouraged to come to the meetings to learn about technical analysis and its applica tion to the present market condi tions We generally discuss the pre sent market and use any web based indicators available Many times we also have someone present top ics of interest to anyone using tech nical analysis We are always looking for sugges tions for topics of discussion or suggested presentations by knowl edgeable groups or individuals Please send your ideas to SIG LEADER Myron Smith at mjslks insightbb com en UTILITIES SIG Co SIG LEADER Tom McArdle will present Disk Keeper from Executive Software at the July 28 meeting at 6 30 PM in the Computer Lab Room 222 at CCUM This hard disk defragging is faster than similar programs and it can be configured to run by itself when needed run at fixed times or intervals or run on demand We will show you how to install a
30. e been using Norton System Works for a number of years For me SystemWorks has worked seamlessly with XP In fact there is so much in SystemWorks that it would be hard to use it all However it is nice to know that it is there if you do have a problem Norton has had a number of utility programs for many years such as Disk doctor fixes disk problems and Win doctor fixes windows problems They originally sold these as individual programs About 10 years ago they put these utilities together as SystemWorks Since then they have added a number of additional utilities such as internet cache and cookie cleanup unerase utility and an erase utility which complies with the department of defense erase specifications if you use this utility to its fullest there is nothing that can be used to recover the wiped files Each year they update the suite of utilities and add additional utilities Some of the new features added to SystemWorks 2005 are Internet worm protection pro tects files from internet worm threats by blocking unsolicited sus picious inbound traffic If you have Norton Personal firewall this is not loaded per se During the update process the Norton Firewall is upgraded to include this worm pro tection Quick Scan scans the system upon receipt of the latest virus pro tection updates Enhanced Preinstall Scan detects and terminates infections already loaded in memory that try to destroy t
31. e in advance that is unable to get a door prize ticket as a result Have you visited a SIG We now have almost 20 Special Interest Groups Surely at least one of the SIGs would be of benefit to you Check the KIPCUG Planner on page 15 or the KIPCUG Special Interest Group Directory on pages 16 17 which offers faster scanning than predecessor versions as well as a more attractive graphical interface and other internal improvements Spybot is top rated by many com puter publications and an extremely popular download According to CNet s download com website about 60 million copies of Spybot have been downloaded from that site alone and this site is but one of dozens of download sites offering Spybot I strongly recommend that all Windows users download install and update Spybot Search amp Destroy and frequently update it and scan for spyware Advanced users can utilize additional software such as an informative startup manager to improve system performance by clicking on the Mode Advanced option Spybot can be downloaded free at www safer networking org management utilities Elections were held at the Annual Business Meeting during the General Meeting on June 7 and additional Directors were appointed at the June 14 Board of Directors Meeting The Directors and Officers are President Charley May Vice President Bill Buzan Secretary Barb McGee Treasurer Rosemary Viele Director of Program
32. e since it appears to be very sim ilar to Microsoft restore point I did n t want to allocate all the needed disk space for this utility The safe try mentioned above sounds inter esting and when time permits I will try it 2005 Premier has a listed street value of 99 95 versus 69 95 for regular SystemWorks the information on the Symantec web Norton SystemWorks Comparing site indicates the major differences between the two versions are the inclusion of Ghost in the Premier version Ghost allows users to make copies of files folders and even whole disks It is easy to use and can be set up for incremental backups or full backups either manually or at a predetermined time of day I recent ly saw a CompUSA ad that listed regular SystemWorks bundled with the personal firewall program for free when rebates and upgrades were considered When considering this deal paying the 99 95 for the Premier version is not worth it For further information or assistance please email gaje insightbb com Page 5 July 2005 Computer User News Google More Than A Simple Search Engine By Ira Wilsker APCUG WEBSITES http www google com http www alltheweb com http www yahoo com http www google com help cheatsheet html http news google com http maps google com http images google com http froogle com Most of us are aware that there are several fine search engines available to help us f
33. e whole desktop After a screenshot is taken the image dis plays in a separate window where it can be further edited The user can add a multitude of markers includ ing textual comments pixel art sym bols arrows free hand lines rectan gular frames and ellipses You can experiment with a semi transparen cy effect and modify color and line size All objects can be easily moved over the screenshot Easily configure hotkeys to trig ger capture actions With the hotkey support you can take snapshots of drop down menus splash screens and other events which as a rule can not be captured You can get HandySnap to automatically gener ate file names for screenshots based on the specified pattern send screenshots to the clipboard or save them to files HandySnap 1 0 runs under Windows 95 98 Me 2000 XP and costs 29 00 USD for a single user license User group members get 20 off the regular price using coupon code GRP01 through August A 30 day fully functional evaluation version can be down loaded free at http www wisepixel com down loads hsnap_setup exe For more information please visit http www wisepixel com Computer User News July 2005 Page 26 E mail press wisepixel com Another Announcement Edited April 12 2005 Neowise Software today announced the release of RoboTask 2 2 the latest version of a high performance automation tool for the Windows platforms The application fea
34. e will continue to see how pictures we have taken or wish to take can be optimized first in the camera and then by the computer Software will Computer User News July 2005 Page 18 be discussed including continuing examples by Matt using The GIMP At the May meeting of the DIGI TAL PHOTOGRAPHY SIG Matt Chojnowski showed us how easy it was to get the latest version of the free image editing program The Gimp updated on a Windows com puter Matt also showed us a free program PCLINUX OS that runs from CD on boot up and can read and write many of the formats you once thought were Windows only formats Any questions on cameras soft ware or printers will also be wel come Bring those nagging ques tions pictures on which you need help on disk cameras with the user manuals and if you have spe cial software be certain to bring it also The specific purpose of this SIG is to examine the software and hardware topics that will make your photographic efforts more fun and rewarding Members at any level of experience and owners of any type of digital camera are welcome Again please be certain to bring your camera manual and photo CD and we will all increase our ability to understand how digital photogra phy is different from using film The DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SIG meets monthly at 6 30 PM on the fourth Tuesday at the LFPL Bon Air Branch Library To get advance notice of this SIG contact Bill at bedwardsna sbcgl
35. ease send SIG LEADER Winnie Miller an email at winnie miller att net PDA SIG There are currently no meetings scheduled for this SIG Members are requested to let our SIG DIRECTOR know their ideas for this group If you have a handheld device we want to hear from you This SIG plans to review and explore the hardware and software of Personal Desk Assistants Smart Phones and like devices SIG DIRECTOR Brian Miller encour ages all members that are interested in this group to contact him We expect to cover all versions of PDA s including the newest combi nation units with phone PC and photo capabilities Members using these devices or that are considering the purchase of a PDA are asked to contact Brian at sigs kipcug org You will be added to a contact list for advance notice of future meetings topics times and location EN REAL ESTATE SIG NEW The REAL ESTATE SIG will meet July 19th at 6 30 PM in the Computer Lab Room 222 at CCUM The SIG will continue its analysis and development of soft ware for record keeping and man agement of Rental Properties SIG LEADER Bill Buzan will monitor the discussion and lead the mem bership in its quest for the simplest and most comprehensive program Computer User News July 2005 Page 22 to do so The REAL ESTATE SIG met June 21 The SIG continued its analysis and development of record keeping and management of Rental Properties The mission of this
36. ed To restrict the results of the searches to more relevant information thus reducing the number of selections presented Google and other search engines use a form of Boolean Logic where common terms such as and or or can be used to nar row the search If I just entered the words Beaumont and Texas in the search box millions of results will be listed that have both of the words in the body If the search term is entered with the quotation marks as Beaumont Texas then only results where the adjacent word pair Beaumont Texas will be displayed By using a minus sign such as Beaumont Texas only results with the word Beaumont and not including sites with the word Texas will be displayed resulting in a much smaller pool of results By placing an asterisk between terms such as time cable will result in a list where the words time and cable are sepa rated by exactly one other word A variety of other terms can be used to limit search results to the desired outcome For example if the user is looking for registration information from my college the user may use the term site to restrict the term to a particular web site in the context of registration site www lit edu which will only Computer User News July 2005 Page 6 return registration information from www lit edu With a similar syntax other functions are available For example the function date will only return informat
37. ed in the past we must be responsible for our own cybersecurity SOURCE NibuD http people ists dartmouth edu gbakos img osamamail jpg See Figure 1 SOURCE PERSONAL EMAILS Mytob variants See Figure 2 See Figure 3 See Figure 4 Adas H From administrator B To iwilske ji Date 04 Jun 2005 03 02 33 PM Subject WARNING YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED Attachment instructions zip 65K Display Download Once you have completed the form in the attached file your account records will not be interrupted and will continue as normal Attachment instructions zip 65K Display Download gt POF Gy A I fo S2 RS Figure 3 From servi a C To iwilsker O O O Date 04 Jun 2005 04 59 41 AM Subject Notice Last Warning We regret to inform you that your account has been suspended due to the violation of our site policy more info is attached Attachment document zip 65K Display Download FO Ey AGS From administrat _ ii To iwilcske Date 05 Jun 2005 01 26 16 AM Subject ACCOUNT ALERT Once you have completed the form in the attached file your account records will not be interrupted and will continue as normal Computer User News July 2005 Page 10 Computer Hysteria Crash By Berry F Phillips Member of the Computer Club of Oklahoma City and a regular writer for the CCOKC website and the eMonitor and APCUG Editorial Committee bfp
38. he product during and immediately after install SafeTry mode in GoBack this enables users to test changes to their PC without negative consequences Enhanced file enables user to drag and drop files recovery Computer User News July 2005 Page 4 they want to rescue or rescue multi ple files simultaneously Norton GoBack s history buffer is now twice as big up to 8GBs on XP CheckIt Diagnostics helps users determine hardware versions and their associated drivers This is interesting to do once but unless you do a lot of changes to your hardware doesn t seem to be worth the disk space It does however give you an indication of where you need to consider upgrading Enhanced One Button Checkup allows user to specify which scan to start and stop and manage cook ies and temporary files more easily Enhanced Norton Cleanup enables users to remove unwanted tracks from Internet sessions or searches System optimizer for XP only this allows you to put restrictions on internet usage control panel access add remove program access Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2005 cont and a number of other areas which if modified deleted could cause seri ous computer problems This is a good feature to keep young children or spouses from making changes to the operating system SystemWorks 2005 is compatible with Windows 98 Me 2000 Professional XP both home and Professional and requires
39. here is no restriction against any non profit group using this article as long as it is kept in context with proper credit given the author The Editorial the Association of Personal Computer User Groups APCUG an interna tional organization of which this Committee of group is a member brings this arti cle to you New Horizons Computer Learning Centers Microsoft Office classes e Windows Word Excel PowerPoint Access Outlook Photoshop Pagemaker Illustrator Flash CorelDRAW Windows 2003 Cisco A Net MCSE MCSA MCAD e Web Based Courses amp Libraries Available 902 426 8519 www newhorizonslouisville com Computer User News July 2005 Page 8 Don t Fall for Human Engineering By Ira Wilsker APCUG You receive the following urgent email from someone you will likely know with the subject line Finally Captured You open this intriguing email and see the message Turn on your TV Osama Bin Laden has been captured While CNN has no pictures at this point of time the military channel PPV released some pictures I managed to capture a couple of these pictures off my TV Ive sic attached a slideshow containing all the pictures I man aged to capture Attached to the email is a file Pictures zip Eager to see the proof that the number one most wanted person in the world has been captured finally you click on the attachment No photos appear so maybe you click on it again
40. ille KY 40207 or to editor kipcug org Over the Program Director s Shoulder By Judy Lococo KIPCUG The primary point of this column is to inform all who may be even slightly interested in the upcoming KIPCUG General Meeting Topics July will be the first month that will have an entire Program Committee behind it so let s get started FWIW the committee contains equal parts of Ralph Langdon Charley May Tom Scanlan Wayne Perkey and myself July 5 finds us with a local topic of interest or at least it should be to all you dweebs out there TeN Metro Government and Greater Louisville Inc have teamed up to develop a Metro Louisville Free Wireless Initiative Through this initiative residents and visitors will receive free internet access in pub lic spaces throughout our communi ty Deana Epperly Karem Director of Louisville Technology Network and a lady I met at some of the WITI Women in Technology meetings is a major player in this roe es Mm iI Me i project but she is going to be out of town the night of our meeting However she has designated a superbly capable pinch hitter Brian Oldham to give us the skinny on what to expect Brian is even famil iar with all the hardware so he should be able to field all the hard questions Brian Oldham sets the vision and manages the technology teams that are responsible for prod uct development product deploy ment and customer service for Appriss Un
41. ind what we are looking for on the internet There are argu ments in the industry about which ones are the best largest fastest and most widely used Personally I use AlITheWeb www alltheweb com for most of my searches as well as its sister service Yahoo www yahoo com Microsoft AOL and several others offer com prehensive search engines The search engine that gets the most attention and arguably the most intentional hits is Google www google com Most of us know how to do simple searches by typing the search terms in the search box and being presented with a list of items Almost all of the major search engines offer far more than simple searches and provide a mechanism for detailed searches and other non search related solu tions Google offers quite a bit more than simple searches For those who want to do more with Google Google has created a cheatsheet at www google com help cheatsheet h tml where many of the specialized search methods and functions are listed The sheet has many tips to ease and speed searches as well as other useful hints and tips about other non search functions Most of us know that if we enter a selection of terms the engine will find web sites and other resources with those terms somewhere in the body of the text All too often when we want to find something using a simple search the search engine finds so many resources that it is difficult to locate exactly what is desir
42. ion from a recent period of months such as virus date 3 will only return virus information that was posted in the last three months Much has been written about chil dren being ensnared into viewing inappropriate adult material on the internet and this can happen while searching as well The search lim iter safesearch will exclude adult content as used in the context safe search sex education Google can be used for a lot more than searching as it also has other integral functions available from the search box By simply typing an area code and phone number in the box the results will be the owner of that listed phone number as well as his address and the option to map the address using a variety of map ping sources This feature while not unique to Google has enraged some privacy advocates The search box can also be used as a substitute for a calculator By typ ing 1 2 in the search box will result in a 3 being displayed The use of a dash means minus An asterisk is used for multiplication with 2 3 showing 6 A slash is for division with 8 4 showing a2 Percentages can be calculated as well using Yo of feature as with 20 of 40 showing the answer as 8 Exponents are calculated with a caret such as 243 two cubed yielding the answer of 8 Complex calculations can be done by string ing the items in appropriate algebra ic fashion Google cont Google offers much
43. ity websites that may provide information and utilities to kill Mytob This malware may also prevent the running of the free online antivirus scans which could Gf allowed to run detect and remove Mytob making it a self pro tective piece of malware Some ver sions also lower or remove other security settings on the computer making it even more vulnerable to attack Some versions also may install spyware adware zombies or other undesirable software as well as broadcast over the internet that the infected computer is vulnerable to further attacks Trend Micro the provider of the online free antivirus scan Housecall housecall antivirus com and PC Cillin antivirus software has stated that some variants of Mytob use the infected computers as a source of revenue for HellBot by placing adware and spyware on the infected computer Nibu and Mybot are just two of the thousands of currently circulating viruses worms and Trojans Netsky Bagel Sober and their many variations are a major threat to our computing security As the virus writers continue to make more productive for them and destruc tive malware it is now more imper ative than ever that we all keep our antivirus software updated constant ly Be suspicious about emails even from known sources and check out any suspicious email from possibly known sources by checking directly with that source prior to opening the email or any attachments As I have plead
44. ive audio or video card memory module DVD burner or building your own computer from the ground up Learn the tips and tech niques necessary for a successful hardware upgrade Does your machine need help Contact us so the Co SIG LEAD ERS Charley May and Grant McCormick can be ready to assist you with your computer Do not surprise the group Let them know in advance that you are bringing your unit With advance planning you may not need to bring your complete system to the meeting The HARDWARE SIG meets on the first Monday of the month at 6 30 PM in the second floor meet ing room of the Eline Branch of the LFPL in St Matthews If you would like a reminder of the next meeting and its topic send an email to Co SIG LEADER Charley May at sig win net Be sure to put HARDWARE SIG in the subject line of your message Computer User News July 2005 Page 20 BESSY INTERMEDIATE USERS SIG For the July 25 meeting we will go over the released MicroSoft AntiSpyware program The INTERMEDIATE USERS SIG meets in the Computer Lab Room 222 at CCUM at 6 30 PM monthly on the fourth Monday CCUM is at 4614 Brownsboro Road US 42 at the Blankenbaker Lane traffic light Directions are on the CCUM web site at www ccum net and on the KIPCUG web site at www kipcug org For the June 27 meeting I was out of town so a Q amp A session was held For the May 23 meeting a demo of networking your PC s was done Using the exam
45. mation when entered and sends that informa tion to parties unknown If you were one of the countless vic tims of this trick and have since opened the attachment and unknowingly installed Nibu D you have done online banking checked your credit card attachments Pictures zip Tum on your TV Osama Bin Laden has been captured While CNN has no pictures at this point of time the military channel PPV released some pictures I managed to capture a couple of these pictures off my TV Ive attached a slideshow containing all the pictures I managed to capture I apologize for the low quality its the best I could do at this point of time Hopefully CNN will have pictures and a video soon God bless the USA Evelyn Nickerson Page 9 July 2005 Computer User News Don t Fall for Human Engineering cont according to a recent article in Computerworld On some days several versions of Mytob have appeared in recent months slight variations have appeared so rapidly that Mytob has spread more quickly than antivirus companies ability to protect against it leaving even recently updated antivirus software vulnerable to attack Mytob first discovered in February and its many variants are especially nasty based on what they do One factor in common is the ability as mentioned above to deac tivate or destroy the antivirus soft ware and firewall installed on the infected computers It also blocks access to secur
46. more of the Norton utilities I chose to install all the various utilities The first thing the installation pro cedure did was to run a preinstall scan before anything else was done Then after the preinstall scan and the usual acceptance of the EULA s and insertion of the product key the installation started Although the installation took about five minutes you can t just start it and go get a cup of coffee since you have to accept the changes being made When installation was complete a reboot was mandatory Make sure you are connected to the net when you do the reboot since the program automatically does an update to the various parts of the program as well as updating the virus definitions After the virus definitions were updated I ran the one button check up which is the main part of SystemWorks It checks the registry validity of the short cuts virus defi nitions check when the last virus scan was conducted warns you if it is over 7 days since last virus scan program integrity and cleanup Scan The cleanup scan new with 2005 can be customized to remove URL history cookies cached files temporary files and most recently used history at the time of the one button cleanup This is an improve ment from previous versions where each of the above had to be removed manually Norton has also set up the clean up so that you can manually remove the above if you desire I did not install GoBack at this tim
47. n queries The topic for the June meeting was reports and we also help with mem bers problems and questions The BASIC ACCESS SIG uses the tools that are available in Access without programming If you have topics that you would like dis cussed please contact SIG LEADER Alan Birch at ajbirch bellsouth net or 429 0506 If you have some tips and tricks to share we would love to hear them We meet on the second Saturday of the month from 10 00 AM to Noon at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center Page 17 July 2005 Computer User News The SIG Scene cont BASIC EXCEL SIG This SIG has been suspended due to low attendance We hope to restart this group if enough KIPCUG members express suffi cient interest If you would like to be notified of the restart of this group or to express your interest in helping to lead the SIG you can contact SIG DIRECTOR Brian Miller at sigs kipcug org Include BASIC EXCEL SIG in the subject line of your email COMMUNITY OUTREACH SIG The COMMUNITY OUT REACH SIG has started the new schedule of meetings This SIG will meet every other month and not have a meeting in November There will be five meetings per year The next meeting will be July 22 at Advanced Grinding and Machine Inc 4644 Illinois Ave in Louisville at 6 30 PM Even though the meet ings will no longer be on a monthly basis we still can accept donations by appointment when necessary The COMMUNITY
48. nd set up this software and compare it with those released by Symantec and Microsoft Keep your system running at top speed with little input on your part with this set it and forget it utility When we met on June 23 Co SIG LEADER Charley May explored the utilities included with the last KIPCUG CD Charley reviewed the programs members had questions about and introduced new utilities likely to be on the next CD New updates to the programs were made available to the group Members are kept up to date with timely messages and answers to their questions at http groups yahoo com group KIPCUGUtilities SIG You do not have to be a mem ber of the group to view the mes sages but you will need to sign up free with Yahoo for full access Links to sites discussed in our pre vious meetings are posted there Examining a mix of freeware shareware and retail programs this SIG hopes to make your computer experience more enjoyable Members may bring blank CD s to exchange for free and trial versions of featured utilities This SIG meets on the fourth Thursday of the month at 6 30 PM in the Computer Lab Room 222 at CCUM To be added to our advance notice list for this SIG sign up at the Yahoo groups site or contact Co SIG LEADERS Tom McArdle at usersig insightbb com or Charley May at sig win net Please put the words UTILITIES SIG in the subject line of your email paa VISUAL BASIC SIG The July 7 meeting at 6 30
49. nse We offer users group mem bers a 25 discount on RoboTask until Aug 31 2005 The coupon code is RT discount 25 Registered customers are entitled to free upgrades to any minor version A 60 day fully functional evaluation version of the program is available for free at direct download link http www robotask com down loads RobotaskSetup exe 2 7 MB Product page link http www robotask com E mail oleg neowise com That s it for this month Meet me here again next month if your editor permits This column is written to make user group members aware of special offers or freebies I have found or arranged and my com ments should not be interpreted to encourage or discourage the pur chase of any products no matter how enthused I might sound Bob The Cheapskate Click bobclick mindspring com Visit my Web site at http www deals guy com Editor s Note This article has been edited to fit Kentucky Indiana Personal Computer Users Group Inc KIPCUG 291 N Hubbards Lane Suite B 26 318 Louisville KY 40207 www kipcug org Individual 35 00 annually Family 50 annually for 2 people in the same household Full Time Student 15 annually Specify school amp course of study Does not include mailing of this Magazine Corporate 160 annually for four people from same corporation I prefer not to receive notification of KIPCUG events by e mail N
50. o ahead and click on the attachment Bad choice one or more of the dozens of variants of the Mytob worm is now infesting my comput er possibly killing or deactivating my antivirus and firewall software preventing access to antivirus and other helpful websites and creating a multitude of new threats to my cyber safety Once the computer is infected Mytob searches the hard drive for address books and sends infecting emails to addresses found geometrically increasing its distrib ution and degree of damage Recently variations of Mytob in aggregate have made it to the top of the threat lists compiled by antivirus companies In one recent day antivirus company Sophos reported that over half of all new virus infes tations detected were variants of Mytob Mytob is a product of a group of miscreants going by the name HellBot who have alleged ly stated that they are trying to develop some type of SuperBug Nibu D backdoor just installed a pA Fil dit l keylogger intended to capture 2t si 2 er JA ap bh 7 ki P NG usernames passwords account Get Mail Write Address Book Reply Reply All Forward Delete Junk numbers and other sensitive subject Finally Captured information Nibu D is also listed by Norton instructions zip I depend on my From Date 06 02 2005 07 56 PM Aa es a o Si Print as a bank info scarfer a type of malware that explicitly looks for banking infor
51. o to www win net mooresk and click on the GENEALOGY II SIG ae HANDS ON SIG NEW Our next meeting will be on July 23 at the Eline Branch of the LFPL in St Mathews We start at 2 00 PM and will work with you to get your machine back up and running at top speed The group can also help you build upgrade your own PC in just one weekend It may not always be possible to work on every machine that is not expected but we resolve most issues by the library closing time There is no fixed topic to discuss just a chance to find some assis tance and learn more about your PC You will need to bring your complete system monitor key board mouse cables and processor Should you need help getting it up to the meeting room members will assist you At the June 25 meeting we worked with problems that came in the door Time was spent by mem bers sharing sources for discounted components and web sites that monitor outstanding values We dis cussed what can be reused in an upgrade and what should be Page 19 July 2005 Computer User News The SIG Scene cont replaced If you are not comfortable going at it alone email us in advance and the group will be ready to help you help yourself Gain confidence and improve your knowledge base in just a few hours Members with repair experience are encouraged to drop in and help other members solve nagging problems All levels of experience are welcomed and we will share o
52. obal net Be certain to put DIGITAL PHOTOG RAPHY in the subject line of your email so that it is not destroyed as SPAM The SIG Scene cont a EXCEL INTERMEDIATE SIG The EXCEL INTERMEDIATE SIG assumes a working knowledge of Excel and familiarity with most of the Excel icons There are many many functions that are available in Excel that few of us realize can make our lives easier Due to low attendance the EXCEL INTER MEDIATE SIG has been suspend ed We hope that the SIG will resume soon if KIPCUG members express sufficient interest To be added to the email list or to state your interest in this SIG send an email to SIG DIRECTOR Brian Miller at sigs kipcug org and type EXCEL INTERMEDIATE SIG in the subject line GENEALOGY SIG The next GENEALOGY SIG Meeting will be at 6 30 PM on July 18 at our regular location the LFPL Eline Branch The presentation will be on Sentence Structure Sentence Structure is a feature of TMG that allows you to control the wording that TMG uses to convert the facts that you have entered into sen tences There is suggested wording built into the program but you can change it to suit your needs The June GENEALOGY SIG Meeting was a presentation by Tom Higgins was on Using GenSmarts This is an add on program to The Mater Genealogist GenSmarts ana lyzes your data makes recommen dations on what data you are miss ing where to look for the data and sometimes even wh
53. om Contact SIG LEADER Myron Smith at 897 7718 or mjslks insightbb com UTILITIES SIG New Date Time Meets 6 30 PM on the 4th Thursday of the month at CCUM at 4614 Brownsboro Road US 42 amp Blankenbaker Lane in the Computer Lab Room 222 Contact Co SIG LEAD ERS Tom McArdle at usersig insightbb com or Charley May at sig win net or 425 4604 KIPCUG Special Interest Group Directory cont VISUAL BASIC SIG Meets 6 30 PM on the Ist Thursday of the month at the LFPL Bon Air Regional 2816 Del Rio Place Contact SIG LEADER Martin Campion 810 9125 or mccampion aol com WEBMASTERS SIG Meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6 30 PM at Win Net located at 1048 Chestnut St Contact SIG LEADER John Henderson at jh inetmarketing com or 812 945 1102 WINDOWS OS SIG New Date Location Meets on the 2nd Friday of the month at 6 30 PM at CCUM at 4614 Brownsboro Road US 42 amp Blankenbaker Lane in the Computer Lab Room 222 Contact SIG LEADER Bob Rose at britdude techemail com or 241 1604 YOUTH SIG Meetings on Hold Meets 6 30 PM on the 4th Friday of the month at CCUM Contact SIG DIRECTOR Brian Miller at sigs kipcug org or 749 By Brian Miller KIPCUG Where to find the scoop on your Special Interest Group E ACCESS PROGRAMMING SIG The ACCESS PROGRAMMING SIG has been suspended due to con flicts with the meeting location We hope to resume meetings when a new meeting location is secured The ACCESS PROGRAM
54. on using a spyware program Smitfraud which on the day it was first discov ered by some of the antivirus com panies quickly made it to Panda Software s Top 10 list of current malware as determined by live scans of thousands of infested com puters with Panda s Active Scan Smitfraud was installed on count less computers by another spyware program CWS YEXE which was illicitly installed on the victim com puters by simply visiting one of many underground web pages such as pirated software warez sites and pornographic websites Once infected by CWS YEXE the Smitfraud was only one of several spyware programs unknowingly installed What made Smitfraud unusual is that it infects Windows system files which in turn degrades Windows performance After Smitfraud infects the computer it then installs still another payload PSGuard This malware program PSGuard should not be confused with another legitimate program of the same name but instead appears in the guise of an anti spyware pro gram Several other files are installed some with names similar to legitimate Windows system files but infected with the W 32 Smitfraud A virus An oth erwise innocent graphics file wp bmp is written to the hard drive and will later appear as a system message The infected system file tracks web pages visited and sends the users list of pages visited to a dis tant server possibly to be linked to directed pop up ads What
55. ormation then click on the con tinue button After putting in the billing info there is a place to enter in the your e mail address for e mail confirmation Below that is the coupon promotional code field for entering the code pcdeals2005 then click apply Or Mon Fri 9am 6pm CST order by phone at 1 800 255 0483 An Announcement I Received Edited Company WisePixel Multimedia E mail press wisepixel com HandySnap1 0 High impact screenshots without complexity WisePixel Multimedia announces HandySnap 1 0 a screen capture utility for Windows platforms With HandySnap you can illustrate your multimedia presentation manual or marketing copy with screenshots that will make it not only aestheti cally pleasing and professional you create an easy to understand presentation that will convey com plex information in a manner any one can grasp within seconds HandySnap features a concise Photoshop style toolbox interface familiar to millions of Photoshop users which floats on top of other applications and takes minimum space on the desktop The interface consists of three main areas with a set of icons capture tools area built in editor and screenshot oper ations area Any screenshot action can be performed in one click on an icon without walking though com plex drop down menus Capture any portion of the screen by using a resizable trimming frame take a snapshot of an active window or th
56. ple at our Computer Lab and a Linksys Broadband Wireless Router we saw examples of networking your home PC s Questions were answered and top ics for future meetings were asked The SIG focuses on the various versions of MS Windows software its features methods of operation problems and all the hints and tips that Jim knows you will be interest ed in Topics suggested at meetings usually become future meeting top ics This SIG is for users who are comfortable with the daily use of their computer and want to learn more In other words you have mastered your fear of computers and you are willing to push the envelope a little We welcome dis cussion and a chance for everyone to learn The SIG Scene cont If you have any questions or sug gestions for meeting topics bring them to the SIG or email Jim at jim travelstead louisville edu and Jim will have your answer at the next SIG meeting Do you want to get on Jim s email notification list Send him a short note with Add me to the KIPCUG INTERMEDIATE USERS SIG meeting email list in the subject line INVESTING SIG SIG LEADER Doc Viele moder ates the INVESTING SIG discus sions which have been ongoing since 1986 The next SIG meeting will be on July 14 Meetings consist of round table information exchanges on any economic subject of current interest Questions and presentations are encouraged The next SIG meeting will include general information on inve
57. r add established Debian packages then it can be easy or difficult depending on the need for the com mand line interface Many of the commands are arcane and rather like in a foreign language although they are really in English I believe much is written in C Perl and Python I am sure some other pro gramming languages are involved also Many of the free backup pro grams are written for Tape Backup Units although they might be con figurable for other media such as HD or CD DVD These things would rate DIFFICULT I have one MUST HAVE no sub stitutes allowed program It will run only in Windows not in Linux or on a MAC or any other operating sys tem I have tried to port it to Linux using four different Windows Emulators The commercial three all have free trials available that are time limited but otherwise full The free qemu Q EMUlator requires an installation of Windows 98 from a full install and does not seem to ever access the CD drive or for that matter any drive outside the virtual machine This prohibits the addition of other programs Of the commer cial ones Crossover Office allows installation of Microsoft Office and a number of other programs whose hooks are built in It will also allow the installation of some others but it is hit or miss Paint Shop Pro 7 will install and work but will not print as an example Newer versions of PSP will not even install Photoshop 6 or 7 will work but not later ver
58. rade obsolete programs Microsoft ranked high on the list of objects of ire With the increased popularity of wireless networks DVD players and game systems the possibilities of irritations are almost endless You can lower your cyber blood pressure by taking some preventa tive medicine Increase your knowl edge to make yourself a more informed user Join the Computer Club of Oklahoma City and network with other computer users and learn from their experiences misery loves company Do NOT go on the Internet without a regularly updated and weekly maintained complete computer security system including antivirus anti spyware and firewall software Not having the money for commercial applications is no excuse as there are several excellent freeware security software pro grams available online Often for gotten is a good registry and unnec essary file cleaner that has automat ic backups which can substantially reduce your crashes Defrag weekly if needed and scandisk at least once a month Do not forget to make an emergency boot disk Finally in case of a crash do not panic Write down what you did immediately prior to the crash and any instructions that you receive from your computer Make sure you have been taking fruit to lay at the feet of your computer guru or lay money on your friendly computer tech The life you save may be your own computer SOS stands for Save Our System Call about KIPCUG Special DSL
59. s Judy Lococo Page 13 Board of Directors Director of Membership Tom Denning Director of Volunteers Tom McArdle Director of Special Interest Groups Brian Miller Editor Susan Moore Webmaster John Henderson Directors at Large Doc Viele Beverly Setree Charles Russman Ken Hubler Wayne Perkey II July 2005 Computer User News Directory of KIPCUG Leaders Name Charley May Bill Buzan Barb McGee Rosemary Viele Judy Lococo Tom Denning Tom McArdle Brian Miller Susan Moore John Henderson Vacant Mike Shaikun Vacant Doc Viele Beverly Setree Charles Russman Ken Hubler Wayne Perkey Alan Birch Martin Campion John Kilpatrick Grant McCormick Flave Reising Bob Rose Tom Scanlan Myron Smith Jim Travelstead Position President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Program Director Membership Director Volunteer Director SIG Director Editor Webmaster Publicity Director Legal Advisor Review Editor Director Director Director Director Director SIG Leader SIG Leader SIG Leader SIG Leader SIG Leader SIG Leader SIG Leader SIG Leader SIG Leader Home Work 425 4604 639 7647 893 969 1 452 6878 893 8710 550 6106 458 7269 749 5892 499 5222 812 945 1102 425 3326 587 3540 452 6878 452 9851 244 0667 812 738 3485 429 0506 810 9125 969 6983 935 2497 241 1604 502 477 1639 477 1639 897 7718 375 4796 852 4761 Email Address sig win net bill buzan insightbb com
60. s out there The majority of the sites are legitimate Do you want to get involved Why did you sign up Can you actually make money as an affiliate or reseller If you have a success story or a failure let s try and have an open discussion You might convince the audience that you have a good opportunity Our June 16 meeting reacquainted the members with how Search Engines work and what they look at to rank a web site We discussed what the Search Engines use to score your pages What works and what does not Every WEBMASTERS SIG includes design tips and tricks There is usually time after the main presentation for Q amp A Every meeting contains web design ele ments or tips for both the beginner and the more advanced web site creator KIPCUG members are encouraged to ask for a review of their web site See www inetwebmaster com for information on the current topic a map and summaries of our recent presentation Non SIG members interested in building a web site or just learning how the Internet works are invited to any of our meetings We meet at 6 30 PM on the third Thursday of the month at the Win Net offices To be added to the mailing list for notices of this SIG s activities please email TEAM MEMBER Roger Klingeman at roger klingeman win net and include the words WEBMASTERS SIG in the subject line of your mes sage ey WINDOWS OS SIG The July 8 meeting at 6 30 PM in the Computer Lab Room 222
61. ssistance con tact SIG DIRECTOR Brian Miller at sigs kipcug org Please include YOUTH SIG in the sub ject line of the email This SIG s mission is to develop the computer skills of middle school or advanced elementary school students It will cover top ics beyond those basic skills taught in the school system and hard to understand although apologetic and they were wrong It s working but I still have a minor problem I hope to iron out Remember CameraMate VideoSafe and CameraMate Real Time Video by Zio Corp from last month s column with rebates stick er on the product s box bought from the retailer extended through Sept 30 2005 Popular Deal Revived Twice in the past few years I have featured a discount on products pur chased from InkSell com and both times I featured it the deal was quite popular I am not familiar with prices on inkjet products so you should do your own research Bryan Hawkins Marketing Manager has offered to repeat this deal for us and it is as follows We are going to do a promo code for your readers The code is for 15 off all compatible inkjet products OEM cartridges are excluded The promotion starts Page 25 July 2005 Computer User News The Deals Guy cont today 5 16 05 and runs till a year from now The code is pedeals2005 Their Web site is http www inksell com for prod uct information To order go to checkout and put in the shipping inf
62. sting and the usual information exchange The INVESTING SIG meets the second Thursday of the month at the Louisville Aero Club at 6 30 PM This is not an invest ment club they DO NOT discuss mutual funds LINUX SIG With the loss of our meeting place the LINUX SIG is presently in a state of limbo At such time that new atrangements can be made notice of future meetings will be posted in the Computer User News and emailed to list members Want to be notified about meeting subjects or have a suggestion for future meeting topics Please send an email to TEAM MEMBER Jack Link at redoscar3 yahoo com and type LINUX SIG in the subject line CE NEW USERS SIG Come join us at the July 11 meet ing from 6 30 to 8 30 PM We meet at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center 10200 Linn Station Road in Suite 110 of the Triad East Building We continue in July on the three Microsoft word processors You will find the learn ing curve easy enough for anyone to join in at any time If we finish early we will take our first look at setting up and maintaining a file system that will help you easily find your data years from now The Q amp A session follows the pre sentation each month Do you have a question Jot it on a piece of paper and bring it with you for an answer you can understand Questions go into a drawing for a prize s In August we will cover a docu ment plus filing system that can be customized by yo
63. tures a unique set of over a hundred automation options that will give users with almost any level of com puter competence from home users to experienced programmers the ability to automate their routine computing tasks and eliminate many time consuming manual oper ations It will help you automate backup processes folder synchronization cleanup of temporary folders e mail retrieval and processing just a few options out of one hundred avail able Get more focus on work with no need to write complicated automation scripts RoboTask works transparently throughout the OS and consumes minimum resources By default it launches at Windows startup and sits in the system tray It features a clear self explanatory GUI inter face that displays a list of tasks their current status provides a quick access to the task related operations and program settings By clicking on the Create New Task icon you open the wizard style dialog that will assist you in selecting an action configuring its behavior settings and setting up an action trigger With sixteen event triggers in hand you have full control in defin ing when and how to launch The Deals Guy cont automations You can get them exe cuted at any specified run time or after a certain time interval Power users can go beyond these schedul ing basics RoboTask 2 2 is designed for Windows 98 Me 2000 XP 2003 and costs 599 95 USD for a single user lice
64. u It will help keep you organized for years to come and will be easy to keep back upped by almost all backup programs The NEW USERS SIG holds its meetings on the second Monday of each month from 6 30 to 8 30 PM We meet at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center 10200 Linn Station Road in Suite 110 of the Triad East Building If you want to review or if you are a new PC user you are invited to join the NEW USERS SIG We don t go too fast so everyone can follow We start with the basics and gradually build up your knowledge base and skill level Each member will have a computer to follow Charley through every step of every feature This hands on experience will give you the opportunity to fol low the lessons as projected in the front of the classroom TEAM MEMBERS Susan Moore and Tom McArdle will help mem bers follow the presentation and master the skills at every meeting Join us in a comfortable environ ment that makes learning easier We invite all those attending to join us for a mini PIG SIG after the meet ing for a brief time to address any personal PC questions To join our mailing list send an email to Charley at sig win net and be sure to include NEW USERS SIG in the subject line We will send you a reminder of our meetings and the topics to be cov ered a few days before our next meeting SES NEW USERS DAYTIME SIG NEW For July and August we will meet at the TUESDAY time so our next meeting
65. ur abilities with one another Our location has a high speed web connection and driver updates and patches can be downloaded quickly We meet on the fourth Saturday of the month at 2 00 PM in the second floor meeting room at the Eline Branch of the LFPL We often run well into the afternoon to assure your problems are resolved If you have a problem machine contact the Co SIG LEADERS list ed below in advance of the next meeting so that time can be allocat ed to address your problems For an advance notice of this SIG please contact Co SIG LEADERS Charley May at sig win net or Tom McArdle at usersig insightbb com Please type the words HANDS ON SIG in the subject line of your email nr HARDWARE SIG This year the fourth of July falls on the first Monday of the month so there will be no meeting of the HARDWARE SIG in July On August 1 we will have further wireless networking with emphasis on why you might want to use a wireless Bridge We meet in the second floor meeting room of the Eline Branch of the LFPL in St Matthews Once again this year we will miss our September meeting as it falls on Labor Day On October 3 we will look at the many uses for a new scanner Find out how to set one up and we will include an overview of the best software for use with your scanner Do you have a desire to expand the capabilities of your existing sys tem Do you want to be comfort able with adding your own hard dr
66. urrent ly meets at 6 30 PM on the second Friday of the month in the Computer Lab Room 222 at CCUM 4614 Brownsboro Road US Hwy 42 at the Blankenbaker Lane traffic light Check the KIPCUG web site at www KIPCUG org for a map to the meeting site To be added to the email list please contact SIG The SIG Scene cont LEADER Bob Rose britdude techemail com and put the words WINDOWS OS SIG in the email subject line YOUTH SIG Your input is requested as we explore the restart of this SIG We hope to include KIPCUG and CCUM members in this group By The DealsGuy Greater Orlando Computer Users Group by Bob The Cheapskate Click Purchase Dates For Hard Drives I quickly heard from readers expressing their displeasure about the HD warranties I wrote about last month I didn t like the fact that a HD warranty starts on the build date either and I don t know where the purchase receipt is for a new drive that I bought shame on me I may be able to find it but this HD has been lying around here for a while Your purchase receipt for a Western Digital drive means you re covered but I don t know other manufactur er s policies When I opened the box for a new Western Digital 80 gig HD the other day the warranty wording for it was inside its box under the drive printed on the bot tom layer of the box The warranty is for one year from the date on my original purchase receipt That works but also included

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