BENTSEN GROVE COMPUTER CLUB BULLETIN

Month of August 2004

 

 

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Bill Wiese

Harold Buechly

Corinne Higbee

 

580-3184

581-3180

585-5664

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Harold Buechly..581-3180

Claude Westfall 580-4042

 

FREE ON LINE VIRUS SCANNING SERVICE By Harold Buechly

Why might you want to scan your computer for viruses when you have a good anti-virus running and you keep it up to date? Maybe just for a double check to make sure it is doing the job you expect it to do.

Norton’s is free and does not require registration. There also is a security test here to make sure your Zone Alarm or other fire wall is working correctly. Run both of them.

http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/

Housecall is also free and does not require registration.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Either Norton or Housecall will run properly using Internet Explorer. Housecall required a plugin for Netscape. I could not get Housecall to work with Firefox.

 

SIGNATURE ON YOUR E-MAILS By Harold Buechly

There are two types of signatures used in e-mail. One is a digital signature which is for security and sending confidential information. Will also verify the sender is who they say they are. I know very little about digital signatures and have no use for it myself.

The other is a personal signature that appears at the end of all created e-mails. I use such a signature on my sent messages as a courtesy to identify exactly who I am, my complete street address and telephone numbers I use, both during the winter and summer as well as our e-mail addresses.

To create your signature using Outlook Express click on TOOLS, OPTIONS then SIGNATURE tab. Click on NEW on the right, TEXT on the left and start entering your signature. There are many options available including several signatures or storing your signature in a file on your hard disk.

Using AOL, Simply click on MAIL, SET MAIL SIGNATURE, CREATE, enter a signature name and create your signature in the box provided.

E-Mail Etiquette

Sites that may help us to make better e-mails.

http://www.iwillfollow.com/email.htm

http://www.emailreplies.com/

http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/etiquette.htm

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/65mailet.htm

 

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