MikesWhatsNews 29, 05, 2005
in today's issue #778

2 Yagoohoogle
3 Windows Grep
4 HIJACKING THE “HIJACKTHIS” NAME
5 Have You Recieved Bad Service ? Canadian
6 Google Gmail Accounts for All
7 Windows XP Sp2 -- FAQs & Best Practices
8 CCC Ranger Rick's Kid Zone
9 Selection Savvy
10 Updates for Windows Media Player 9 & 10
11 Create a Keyboard Shortcut in XP
HackFix Updates
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Yagoohoogle
http://www.yagoohoogle.com/

If you like to use search engines here is the chance to view 2 of the most
common at the same time.

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3
Windows Grep free
http://www.wingrep.com/
The premier text searching tool for Windows 9x and NT - the choice of software
developers the world over.
Don't take our word for it - download a fully functioning non-time expiring copy
today!
Windows Grep is a tool for searching files on your disks for occurrences of text
strings that you specify. Although Windows and many other programs have file
searching capabilities built-in, none can match the power and versatility of
Windows Grep. The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional
command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the
ease of use of Microsoft Windows.

In addition to searching, Windows Grep can also perform global replacing in your
files, with complete safety.

Windows Grep is designed for searching plain-ASCII text files, such as program
source, HTML, RTF and batch files, but it can also search binary files such as
word processor documents, databases, spreadsheets and
executables.
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4
HIJACKING THE “HIJACKTHIS” NAME
http://aumha.org/elist.cgi/2005/04/25#20050423-1

Merijn Bellekom is a real hero to every serious soldier in the war against
adware, spyware, browser hijackers, and other parasitic software. Now, the good
name of his most amazing product is being ripped off in a way that may put
unsuspecting end-users at increased risk.

Merijn is the author or numerous important tools in the parasite wars. His two
most significant creations are CWShredder — for a long time the primary tool in
fighting the prolific and multifaceted CoolWebSearch parasite — and HijackThis,
a sophisticated expert’s tool in wide use as a primary instrument in cleaning
computers in all but simple cases. It would be impossible for me to overstate
the importance of HijackThis — many of us helping end-users clean their infected
machines find that we live and breathe by HijackThis every single day.

After developing CWShredder as far as he could take it (in the face of ongoing
significant mutation of the parasite), Merijn transferred the product to a third
party developer that still gives it away for free, partly as a community service
and partly to promote its commercial cleaning products. But HijackThis remains
completely in Merijn’s control, to all of our benefit. Despite this, a
suspicious — some might say insidious — commercial software company has hijacked
the name.

Hijack-this.net has been registered by by XoftSpy. One apparent purpose is to
leverage the widespread good name of HijackThis to draw people to XoftSpy’s own
products. This, per se, isn’t any dirtier that many legitimate business moves,
though it is misdirecting — and it may be dangerous to end-users as well. Why
dangerous? Well, XoftSpy is, at best, a suspicious entity. You can find them
listed and discussed on Eric L. Howes’ Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web
Sites page, my standard reference for current information on suspect betrayware
products. “Betrayware” is software that pretends to protect you while really
stabbing you in the back — security software that is, itself, a security risk.
According to Eric, XoftSpy has done a great deal in recent months to clean up
its act, so it may not be so bad a thing as it used to be — but it is clear to
me that they are not completely done with shady tricks. Now that people are
going to be led to their product while searching
, in good faith, for Merijn Bellekom’s HijackThis utility, it’s important that
everyone know a bit about the product.
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From; THE E-LIST NEWS http://aumha.org/elist.htm
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5
Have You Recieved Bad Service ?
Have you experienced really bad service lately?
Do you feel like you're in a David and Goliath situation when dealing with a
large
company/organization or government?
If you're being stonewalled and trying to get answers, Marketplace wants to hear
your story and maybe we can help you fight back.
Call or email Marlene at (604) 662-6870 or marlene_mcardle@....

From; Marketplace: http://cbc.ca/marketplace/
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6
Google Gmail Accounts for All
https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount
Google is currently offering Gmail accounts at random from its home page
www.google.com.
To get an account, keep on pressing "refresh" until the offer comes up.
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7
Windows XP Sp2 -- FAQs & Best Practices
http://aumha.org/win5/a/sp2faq.htm
More on this later -- just a quick announcement now -- I have just added a
new page to the site, "Windows XP Sp2 -- FAQs & Best Practices"
(http://aumha.org/win5/a/sp2faq.htm). Eventually it will incorporate all
information developed on forum of the same name. At present, it has itemized
links to individual items on the SP2 forum, and should prove to be your best
starting point for information about SP2 installation and special issues.
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'Christy's Computer Corner'
thanks to Christy;
http://www.1stpick.org

Ranger Rick's Kid Zone
http://www.nwf.org/kids/

Kids learn about wildlife while playing games and other cool interactive
learning.

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Selection Savvy

Ever need to make more than one choice in a list box?
(A list box is basically an item by item list. You've probably seen them on web
pages or in computer
programs you've used. Outlook Express uses a list box to display its list of
messages.)

Here's how:
1. Click the first item on the list you would like to have selected.
2. Next, while holding down the SHIFT key, click the last item you would like
selected.

That's it, the first and last selected items are now highlighted, as well as
everything in between.

OK, so what if you just need specific items selected, not whole sections?

That's easy too. Hold down the CTRL key while making your selections.
As long as the CTRL key is down, you can click select individual items on in a
list box.

Note that not all list boxes support multiple selections.

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10
Updates for Windows Media Player 9 Series and for Windows Media Player 10
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892313
This article describes the updates for the following issues that may occur in
Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 Series and in Windows Media Player 10:• Windows
Media Player may ignore a fractional STARTTIME value and a fractional DURATION
value for a non-English locale.
• A memory leak may occur when you play back DVR-MS files in Windows Media
Player.
• Script commands may not start in Windows Media Player after a seeking
operation.
• In certain situations, certain types of Windows Media Digital Rights
Management (WMDRM)-protected content may cause Windows Media Player to redirect
a user to a Web page to acquire a license without prior warning. This redirect
may occur even if a user has cleared the Acquire licenses automatically for
protected content check box on the Privacy tab of the Options dialog box.
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11
Create a Keyboard Shortcut in XP ~ Mike's Friday Tip

Create a Keyboard Shortcut for a Program in Windows XP Home and Professional
Editions.


Note that this feature works only with program shortcuts on the desktop or the
Start menu.

This feature does not work if the desktop shortcut is a shortcut to another
shortcut.

Creating a Keyboard Shortcut:

Right-click the desktop shortcut, and then click Properties.

On the Shortcut tab, click in the Shortcut Key box.

Press the keyboard combination that you want to use to start the program.

The shortcut combination must consist of one character (a letter,
number, or symbol) plus at least two of the following three keys:

CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT.

Click OK.
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This weeks Virus Pattern Updates (04/28/2005)



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


Aladdin Knowledge Systems

Esafe Desktop/Gateway/Enterprise
Last Updated Apr 28/2005
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 Apr 21/2005
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 Apr 28/2005
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 Apr 28/2005
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 Apr 28/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/
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Computer Associates

E-Trust
Last updated Apr 28/2005
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.

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GeCad Software

Rav (Reliable AntiVirus)
Last Updated: Apr 26/2005
To update your software:
Visit: http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/dldupdate.php?type=3DDaily
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 (December 31, 2004)
Read more here: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_avg6_termination.php
(New update details will be available soon)

Last updated Apr 27/2005
To update your software
Visit: http://www.grisoft.com/doc/72/lng/us/tpl/tpl01
Or
You can also perform updates using the Check for
Updates option within the menu that opens after right
mouse button clicking over the AVG icon located on
the system tray.


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H+Bedv

AntiVir
Last updated Apr 28/2005
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 Apr 28/2005
To update your software
Visit: no visable update page on site main page at
http://www.centralcommand.com/index.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
Last updated Apr 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: 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 Apr 27/2005
To update your software
For Mcafee Visit
http://www.networkassociates.com/us/downloads/updates/superdat_download.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 Apr 26/2005
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.

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Softwin

BitDefender
Last Updated Apr 15/2005
To update your software
Visit:=
http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/downloads.php?menu_id=3D19&s_id=3D3
Or
Open BitDefender select Protection Options->live upgrade
Or
>From the BitDefender folder in your Start Menu select Bitdefender Live

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Sophos

Sophos Anti Virus
Last IDE available Apr 28/2005
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 Apr 28/2005
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 Apr 28/2005
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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