BENTSEN GROVE COMPUTER CLUB BULLETIN

Week of February 23rd 2004

 

MEETINGS

MONDAY

 

ROOM 3 & 3R

BEGINNERS

PRESENTATION

9:30 AM

 

GENERAL

MEETING

10:30 AM

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS:

If you would like to meet in a small group to discuss one of the following subjects, contact the following people.

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

WEB PAGE

INVESTMENT CLUB

 

Bill Wiese

Harold Buechly

Corinne Higbee

 

580-3184

581-3180

585-5664

If you would like to lead a SIG, discuss it with Val.

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EMERGENCY

RESPONSE

TEAM

Val Barron…..….519-2319

Harold Buechly..581-3180

Claude Westfall 580-4042

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Monday February 23rd 2004, 9:30 AM New user LESSON 10, By Corinne Higbee

Click here to get next week’s lesson, print it and bring to class.

Monday February 23rd 2004, 10:30 AM General meeting. Demonstration back up and a fun program, Smart Morph by Harold Buechly

Upcoming demonstrations include PUBLISH YOUR WEB PAGE, PHOTOGRAPHY

Monday March 8th 2004, 10:30 DOOR PRIZES. Noon, meet at Rays Barbeque.

 

Report from Val

Hi,

I wanted everyone to know that I am out of the hospital and doing well. The spinal fusion seems to have gone well. Though I did get sick while in the hospital, I'm doing much better now. I'll remain in Houston for a few weeks of physical therapy and follow-up doctor visits.

Thanks for all the good wishes.

Val

 

Last week’s program (2/16/2004) by Ron Bormann, The Computer Doctor (956)451-1389.

Ron’s demonstration reviewed several programs that may be used to make our computer experiences more rewarding. If your computer is not working hard to download advertising while you are on line, it will work much faster on what we want to view. All too often, a part of our computer is taken over by an outside computer. This includes our processor, hard drive, memory and internet connection.

The following programs are free to download and free to use by non-commercial users (for home use)

SpyBot available from http://www.safer-networking.org click on download, click on download here follow instructions and install it. SpyBot - Search & Destroy searches your hard disk for different kinds of internet threats - including spy- and adware, keyloggers and your usage tracks (for example your browsers page history). Spybot-S&D can also fix some system problems.

Lavasoft Add Aware 6 available from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ . Click on download under support on the left, select a site to download from, (Possibly Tucows.com etc.), click download now, follow instructions and install it. Add Aware 6 will scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known Datamining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, Keyloggers, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.

 

Zone Alarm available from www.zonelabs.com . Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on free download. Follow instructions and install it. Zone Alarm. Do not click on “Zone Alarm PRO” or “Zone Alarm PRO 30 day free trial” unless you want to pay for it, It's free for personal and non-profit use (excluding government and educational entities). Zone Alarm is compatible with Microsoft® Windows® 98/Me/NT/2000 and XP.

 

Shoot The Messenger (Has nothing to do with MSN Messenger). Originally for inner office messages to send notes to many computers hooked together on a network.  The Windows "Messenger Service" is being exploited to spray the Internet with unsolicited commercial eMail. The receipt of a single UDP packet can cause a "Messenger Service" dialog to pop-up on the user's screen. It is possible for the sender to "spoof" (falsify) the packet's "Source IP", making these packets impossible to trace back to their origin.

http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

 

Spyware Blaster can prevent the installation of any spyware ActiveX controls from a webpage. It does this while not interfering with "friendly" ActiveX controls - so your browser can work correctly and you can have peace of mind!

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

 

EMPTY TEMP FOLDER helps you manage folders that contain temporary files, left over by other applications.

http://www.downlinx.com/proghtml/230/23073.htm

 

REG CLEANER With RegCleaner, you can easily remove obsolete registry entries from software that you may have uninstalled ages ago.

http://www.komputerswiat.pl/include/download/download_komentarze.asp?idp=1739

 

Ron also emphasizes how important it is to keep your anti-virus programs up to date.

 

 

When installing new hardware the drive designators (D, E, etc) change. To reassign the letters to suit your needs, follow these steps.

           1. Click Start, Run and type in diskmgmt.msc. Click OK.

           2. Right click a disk in the bottom of the window and choose Change Drive Letter

               and Paths.

           3. Click Change and select an unused letter from the drop-down list and click OK.

           4. Answer any prompts and click OK again. 

Claude Z. Westfall

 

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