MikesWhatsNews 04, 02, 2005
in today's issue #766

2 Spyware in 2005
3 Preparing to Install XPSP2
4 Total Copy
5 Win Tab
6 Karen's Directory Printer v5.0
7 Total Uninstall 2.34
8 CCC Fun With Words
9 End Task To Solve System Lockup
10 Anti-adware Misses Most Malware
11 Insert the Windows XP CD
HackFix Updates
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Spyware in 2005 ~ Scot's Newsletter
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/66.htm

The spyware, and anti-spyware, landscape has changed significantly
since I wrote reviews of Ad-Aware and SpyBot back in February 2003 and
August 2003, respectively. For one thing, spyware has gone from being a
nuisance that occasionally bit some people hard to being a threat that
can bite just about anyone hard, every day of the week. Spyware is a
much bigger deal than it used to be. Many of us have learned to our
chagrin that a firewall and antivirus program aren't enough to protect
us from everything nasty.
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Prepairing to Install XPSP2 by Murray White

Here is what you will want to do when preparing for the SP2 install

1. Clean all spyware-- the spycleaners you will need are these three--
Spyware blaster 3.2, SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.4 and Adaware SE 1.03

2. Clean temp and temp internet files--I like the proggie Crap Cleaner
& HD Valet

3. Update and run your AntiVirus and run online scans with Housecalls
and Panda.

4. disable LAN in Network Conections

5. run chkdsk and do a defrag

6. uncheck all except keyboard (if special) and mouse (if special) and also
move icons from the Startup folder on the start menue>all programs to
a "disable startup folder"

Here are links for the msconfig items so you know what each is and whether
it is required at startup.

http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php?
http://guidaworld.com/startups_all/startups_all.htm
http://www.tasklist.org/

7. Reboot the computer and check to see all items have been disabled
-- look in notification tray.

8. Install SP2 selecting what you want to occur regarding OE, firewall
etc. if prompted.

9. Reboot and run defrag

10. check some programs such as wordpad, image files etc to be sure they
operate correctly.

11. Recheck items you want in msconfig startup and put back items in the
startup folder on the start menu.

12. reboot the computer

13. Enable LAN

14. Open OE and make sure email is ok and the way you want it, surf the
net and log into messaging service(s).
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Total Copy free
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/9/13-9-74.shtml
Total Copy is a handy shell extension, that allows you to pause and resume
file copies under Windows. It integrates into the right click menu and
becomes available whenever you drag files or folders to copy them. You can
also limit the copy speed, if needed.

Total Copy also speeds up the overall copy process.
The program does not modify the default copy function, but rather installs
as an additional option.

Features:

- Pause / Resuming : At any time you may pause the copy-prosess, and
continue later.
- Auto-pause on any error : If you run out of disk space, the network goes
down,
or some other error occurs, copying is automatically paused, and you may
resume when the error is sorted out.
- Resuming on Power Failure : If the computer is turned off during the copy
prosess
(ex. power-loss or system-crash), Total Copy lets you resume when you
restart.
- Speed limit : Slows down the copy prosess, and frees resources to other
tasks.
- Faster than Windows : Copies slightly faster than Windows (approx. 10%
locally, and 1% on network)
- Small improvements : Shows copy-speed, a percent-bar and KBytes remaining.

- Does not modify Windows' own copy-function : This program will not alter
the existing windows-copy-function.
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Thanks to; Neat Net Tricks
http://www.neatnettricks.com/
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5
Win Tab free
http://www.rblevin.net/WinTab.htm
WinTab is a tiny tool that emulates the keyboard combination of Win+Tab.

Pressing the Windows (Win) key on a PC keyboard causes the Start Menu and
Taskbar to appear. Pressing Win+Tab calls up the Windows Taskbar, without
displaying the Start Menu.

By using WinTab, you can use a single key to call up the Taskbar, instead of
having to press Win+Tab every time. This is handy and certainly more
comfortable for users (like me) who [A] don't keep their Taskbar on top of
other windows, [B] use Auto-Hide, [C] use a resized Taskbar (i.e., larger),
or [D] any mix of A, B, and C.
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6
Karen's Directory Printer v5.0 free
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp
No more fumbling with My Computer or Windows Explorer, wishing you could
print information about all your files. Karen's Directory Printer can print
the name of every file on a drive, along with the file's size, date and time
of last modification, and attributes (Read-Only, Hidden, System and
Archive)! And now, the list of files can be sorted by name, size, date
created, date last modified, or date of last access.
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Total Uninstall 2.34 free
http://www.martau.com/tu.html

OS: Win95 OSR2, Win98, WinMe, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP.
Total Uninstall can help you to monitor any changes that were made to your
system during installation of a new software product.
It allow you to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the
supplied uninstall program which may leave files or changes behind.

To use it, you simply launch the installation program from the Total
Uninstall interface and select the system areas to be monitored. The program
will then create a snapshot of your system before it installs the new
software and an additional snapshot after install completes. It then
compares the two snapshots and displays all changes in a graphical tree
view, marking all values and/or files that have been added or changed. Total
Uninstall will save these changes and if you decide to uninstall the
application, it will reverse the changes to the previous state.

Thanks to; Sean at mycomputerheadaches
MCH - http://shorterlink.com/?PBFUJ5
SMB - http://savemybutt.com
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'Christy's Computer Corner'
thanks to Christy;
http://www.1stpick.org

Fun with Words

http://www.fun-with-words.com
Fun with words is the website dedicated to amusing quirks,
peculiarities, and oddities of the English language.
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End Task To Solve System Lockup

Did a program on your Windows XP system just lock up?
Chances are, you can get back to work without rebooting.
Simply end that task.

Press Ctrl-Alt-Del on your keyboard to open the Task Manager.
On the Applications tab, you should see one item that reads
"Not Responding" under Status
(if not, you will in a few seconds try closing and re-opening the Task
Manager).
Select that application, click End Task and you'll see a message telling you
the selected application is not responding. Click End Now then wait as
Windows
ends the task.
You should be able to re-open that application and get back to work.

(Note: Unfortunately, in some cases, the above steps won't work
and you'll need to reboot entirely.)


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Anti-adware Misses Most Malware By Brian Livingston
http://windowssecrets.com/050127/

Now that 80% of home PCs in the U.S. are infected with adware and spyware,
according to one study, it turns out that nearly every anti-adware
application on the market catches less than half of the bad stuff.

That's the conclusion of a remarkably comprehensive series of anti-adware
tests conducted recently by Eric Howes, an instructor at the University of
Illinois.

Howes, a well-known researcher among PC security professionals, collected 20
different anti-adware applications. He then infected a fresh install of
Windows 2000 SP4 and Office 2000 SP3 with several dozen adware programs in
separate stages. Finally, he counted how many active adware components were
removed by each anti-adware product.
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Insert the Windows XP CD ~ Mike's Friyday Tip

Load XP to stop insert the windows xp cd
Sometimes you are installing something, you are asked to insert the Windows
XP cd.

Well here's the way to solve that problem...

1. Insert your Windows XP cd

2. click on, Perform Additional Tasks

3.now click on, Browse this CD

4.Look for the I386 folder, right click on the folder and copy.

5.Get into, My Computer

6. right click on you c: drive and paste.

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HackFix updates, thanks to Christy;
staff@...
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This weeks Virus Pattern Updates (02/03/2005)

Updates will now vary in time but remain the same in day. Our
time schedule no longer allows for updates to be sent at a
specific
time on any day so we will continue to send them on Thursdays to
help our readers to remember to update before leaving for the
weekend (time away or from work). We apologize if this causes
any confusion.

All Software listed Alphabetically by Company name as some
companies manufacture more then one product.


Aladdin Knowledge Systems

Esafe Desktop/Gateway/Enterprise
Last Updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.esafe.com/esafe/downloads/virusig.asp
Or
>From the Esafe folder in your Start Menu select Download Updates
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AlWil Software

Avast Antivirus
Last Updated Feb 02/2005
To update your software:
Visit: http://www.avast.com/
Or
Right click on the AVAST icon in the system tray, Select iAVS
Update,
AVAST will check for updates and download the appropriate files as
needed.
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Authentium Software Systems

Command antivirus
Last Updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
Visit
http://www.authentium.com/support/downloads/index.cfm
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Center for Antivirus Technologies (CAT)

Quickheal
Last Updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://207.230.103.11/public/updates/updates.asp
Or
Open Quickheal select Utility from the top toolbar and liveupdate.

Follow the onscreen prompts. Alternately you can select
Liveupdate
directly from the QuickHeal program menu on the startmenu.
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Frisk Software Systems

Fprot
Last Updated Feb 02/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/
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Computer Associates

E-Trust
Last updated Feb 02/2005
To update your software
http://www3.ca.com/support/vicdownload/
Or
>From the Respective folder in your Start Menu select Autodownload

For Vet Anti virus
http://www.vet.com.au/html/software/update.html

Be sure to have your Customer ID and your registered email address

handy for verification.

**Note**

We knew this time would come eventually, that Computer Associates
would not continue to support/update the older program
https://www2.my-etrust.com/services/ipe_support??
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GeCad Software

Rav (Reliable AntiVirus)
Last Updated: Feb 02/2005
To update your software:
Visit:
http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/dldupdate.php?type=Daily
Or
Open Rav and select Rav Update from the toolbar
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Grisoft Inc.

AVG
Announcing the End of Support for AVG Anti-Virus 6.0 (Feb 15, 2005)
Read more here: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_avg6_termination.php
(New update details will be available soon)

Last updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php
Or
Open AVG and click Virus Database to check for updates
Or
Open AVG control centre and click Update Manager/update now

**Note: To help speed up AVG updates you can set your program to
use an alternate download site.
Open AVG control centre->update manager->download from server.
The drop downbox should have listed www.grisoft.com (default) and

www.grisoft.cz. (be sure to select "apply" when done to save the
changes)
The default site is most often used so can at times become
temporarily unavailable. By using the secondary site
(www.grisoft.cz)
helps to ease the server and makes your update go quicker as most
don't use it!
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H+Bedv

AntiVir
Last updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.free-av.com/antivirus/allinonen.html
Or
Open AntiVir, from the top toolbar select Tools->start internet
update and follow the on screen prompts.


Vexira
Last updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.centralcommand.com/updates.html
Or
Open Vexira, from the top toolbar select Tools->start internet
update and follow the on screen prompts.

Vexira Antivirus is marketed by Central Command however it
is the same program as Antivir with only a different name.
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Kaspersky

Kaspersky Anti-Virus (formerly AVP)
Last updated Jan 28/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.kaspersky.com/updates.asp
Or
Open AVP from the top toolbar click Tools-> Update virus
definition
Or
From the Kaspersky folder in your Start Menu select AVP updater


*Note* Avp now has available a cumulative update and a
daily update with the daily being any important items they
feel shouldn't wait till the next cumulative update. Our
dates here are based on the most recent Major update.

*Note: Improved update accessiblity. To ease the update web
traffic Kaspersky labs has additional servers for autoupdating.
The program defaults to use one server but can be altered to
check a variety of servers.
Select Kaspersky updater, select update via the internet to
open the drop down box(es) select "location" Check the box
labeled "Use alternate locations from the list" select next and
next to update. This option should stay selected after the first
time. This helps Kaspersky lighten the load for updates and
helps you obtain updates easier.
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Network Associates

Mcafee
Last updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
For Mcafee Visit
http://www.networkassociates.com/us/downloads/updates/superdat.asp
(for Virus and Engine updates)


Drsolomn (Product no longer available for new users however
updates still available for current users): Go to the following
Internet site: http://download.mcafee.com/updates/4x.asp
IMPORTANT: When you get to this site you may notice that it
refers to VirusScan. This update is not only for VirusScan.
It also works with Dr.Solomon's.

Or
Open your respective software virus scan scheduler, double click
Auto update, click Run Now to do a manual live update, or click
Schedule to set up a timed live update.
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Norman Data Defence

Norman Virus Control
Last updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
Visit:
http://www.norman.com/downloads.shtml#definition_files_updates
Be sure to have your Valid Username and password handy for
verification.
Or From the Norman folder in your Start Menu select Internet
Update

**Note Norman Virus Control web updates are only for version
prior to 5.0. Norman 5.0 can only be updated via the update in
the program itself.

Thunderbyte Anti Virus
Current Version: This product is no longer being supported.
http://www.norman.com/tbav.shtml
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Softwin

BitDefender (Previously known as AVX - AntiVirus eXpert as of Nov
06/01)
Last Updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
Visit:
http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/downloads.php?menu_id=19&s_id=3
Or
Open BitDefender select Protection Options->live upgrade
Or From the BitDefender folder in your Start Menu select
Bitdefender Live

Press Release on the software change
http://www.bitdefender.com/press/ref1.php
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Sophos

Sophos Anti Virus
Last IDE available Feb 03/2005
To obtain the latest IDE files
Visit: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/

**Note: Sophos does not update as other products do.
They update the Engine/software once a month (or so) to include
all the previous IDE files. New IDE files are available with new
virus threats and must be downloaded individually until the next
software update is available.
Our update dates reflect the most recent available IDE file.
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Symantec

Nortons AntiVirus
Last updated Feb 02/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html
select your language -> product from the list
Or
Open Nortons software and click the "live update" button
Or From the Nortons folder in your Start Menu select LiveUpdate -
Norton Antivirus
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Trend Micro

PcCillin
Last updated Feb 03/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp
Be sure to have your Registration number handy for verification
Or
Open PcCillin click Update then click Update Now (or Update later
to Schedule a timed update)
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If there is an Anti Virus program that is Not listed here that
you would like to see added to the weekly updates list Please
feel free to let us know.

Remember Your anti virus software is only as good as the user...
If you don't keep it updated it won't provide you with maximum
protection.

This weekly Update will be sent every Thursday on or after
6pm (eastern) to keep you up to date on virus pattern updates
available. Virus patterns are checked for most recent update
date as of 6pm Thursdays.

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