We support Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 & 1.1, all versions of Access, SQL 2000, SQL 7.0, SQL 2005 Express, SOAP, FrontPage 2002, 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Index Server, XML, UDDI, & Mobile device support. We also offer great third party tools like SmarterMail, Merak Mail, SmarterStats, PHP, Perl, MySql, DeepMetrix Livestats XSP 8.0.   We support Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 & 1.1, all versions of Access, SQL 2000, SQL 7.0, SQL 2005 Express, SOAP, FrontPage 2002, 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Index Server, XML, UDDI, & Mobile device support. We also offer great third party tools like SmarterMail, Merak Mail, SmarterStats, PHP, Perl, MySql, DeepMetrix Livestats XSP 8.0.
 Monday, May 23, 2005
MS Malicious Software Removal
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for and helps remove infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom. When the detection and removal process is complete, the tool displays a report describing the outcome, including which, if any, malicious software was detected and removed. The tool creates a log file named mrt.log in the %WINDIR%\debug folder.
This tool is not a replacement for an anti-virus product. To help protect your computer, you should use an anti-virus product. "Click Here"
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5/23/2005 6:52:00 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  | 
MS One Care

"Learn More"
  • Provides a comprehensive PC health service
    Windows OneCare helps protect and maintain your computer with an integrated service that includes antivirus, firewall, PC maintenance, and data backup and restore functionality.
  • Works automatically to help provide hassle-free protection and maintenance
    Windows OneCare automatically takes care of key tasks such as running antivirus scans, updating the antivirus engine and virus definitions, updating the firewall, and running a monthly PC tune-up to improve and maintain your computer’s performance.
  • Continuously evolves to help protect you from the latest threats
    Because Windows OneCare is a service, you will not need to wait for a new version in order to be protected from new threats or to take advantage of new features. Windows OneCare updates itself automatically over the Internet so you always have the latest technology.
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5/23/2005 6:38:00 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Sunday, May 22, 2005
Go Live CS2

Like it or not there will be a change in your development. Certainly if you have been a dreamweaver web site developer. Oh sure nothing is going to change is the spin. Anyone developing on the web surely knows better. So I think that getting acquainted with adobe go live is important. Though I suspect that both tools will change to some common ground since the number of people using dreamweaver is substantially higher.

New Adobe® GoLive® CS2 software helps you unlock the power of CSS and take your ideas to new places with powerful mobile authoring tools based on CSS/XHTML, SVG Tiny, SMIL, and other global standards. No matter what your design goals, you have the freedom and flexibility that comes with building on open standards and the power to leverage your existing Adobe assets through tight integration with the other Adobe Creative Suite components.
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5/22/2005 10:32:51 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Xcopy
XCOPY

Copy files and/or directory trees to another folder. XCOPY is similar to the COPY command except that it has additional switches to specify both the source and destination in detail. XCOPY is particularly useful when copying files from CDROM to a hard drive, as it will automatically remove the read-only attribute.

Syntax
XCOPY source [destination] [options]
key source : Pathname for the file(s) to be copied.

Destination : Pathname for the new file(s). [options] can be any combination of the following: Source Options
/A Copy files with the archive attribute set (default=Y)
/M Copy files with the archive attribute set and turn off the archive attribute, use this option when making regular Backups (default=Y) /H Copy hidden and system files and folders (default=N)
/D:mm-dd-yyyy Copy files that have changed since mm-dd-yyyy. If no date is given, the default is to copy files with a modification date before today. (at least 1 day before)
/U Copy only files that already exist in destination.
/S Copy folders and subfolders
/E Copy folders and subfolders, including Empty folders. May be used to modify /T.

/EXCLUDE:file1[+file2][+file3]...

(Windows 2000 only) The files can each contain one
or more full or partial pathnames to be excluded.
When any of these match any part of the absolute path
of a SOURCE file, then that file will be excluded.
For example, specifying a string like \obj\ or .obj will exclude
all files underneath the directory obj or all files with the
.obj extension respectively. Copy Options
/W Prompt you to press a key before starting to copy. /P Prompt before creating each file.
/Y (Windows 2000 only) Suppress prompt to confirm overwriting a file. may be preset in the COPYCMD env variable.
/-Y (Windows 2000 only) Prompt to confirm overwriting a file. /V Verify that the new files were written correctly.
/C Continue copying even if an error occurs.
/I If in doubt always assume the destination is a folder e.g. when the destination does not exist. /Z Copy files in restartable mode. If the copy is interrupted part way through, it will restart if possible. (use on slow networks)
/Q Do not display file names while copying.
/F Display full source and destination file names while copying.
/L List only - Display files that would be copied.
Destination Options
/R Overwrite read-only files.
/T Create folder structure, but do not copy files. Do not include empty folders or subfolders.

/T /E will include empty folders and subfolders.
/K Copy attributes. XCOPY will otherwise reset read-only attributes. /N If at all possible, use only a short filename (8.3) when creating
a destination file. This may be nececcary when copying between disks
that are formatted differently e.g NTFS and VFAT, or when archiving
data to an ISO9660 CDROM.

/O (Windows 2000 only) copy file Ownership and ACL information.

/X Copy file audit settings (implies /O).
XCOPY will accept UNC pathnames

Examples:
To copy a file: XCOPY C:\utils\MyFile D:\Backup\CopyFile
To copy a folder: XCOPY C:\utils D:\Backup\utils /i
To copy a folder including all subfolders. XCOPY C:\utils\* D:\Backup\utils /s /i
The /i defines the destination as a folder.

Related Commands:
COPY - Copy one or more files to another location
DEL - Delete files
MOVE - Move a file from one folder to another
ROBOCOPY - Robust File and Folder Copy
Fcopy - File Copy for MMQ (copy changed files & compress. (Win 2K ResKit)
Permcopy - Copy share & file ACLs from one share to another. (Win 2K ResKit)
MTC - XCopy and create a log file. (Win 2K ResKit)

Q240268 - XCOPY changes in Win 2K
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5/22/2005 10:10:27 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Common errors XHTML

Some of the most common errors in XHTML are:

  • Not closing empty elements (elements without closing tags)
    • Incorrect: <br>
    • Correct: <br />
  • Not closing non-empty elements
    • Incorrect: <p>This is a paragraph.<p>This is another paragraph.
    • Correct: <p>This is a paragraph.</p><p>This is another paragraph.</p>
  • Improperly nesting elements (elements must be closed in reverse order)
    • Incorrect: <em><strong>This is some text.</em></strong>
    • Correct: <em><strong>This is some text.</strong></em>
  • Not specifying alternate text for images (using the alt attribute, which helps make pages accessible for devices that don't load images or screen-readers for the blind)
    • Incorrect: <img src="/images/88x31.png" />
    • Correct: <img src="/images/88x31.png" alt="Bla Bla Bla" />
  • Putting text directly in the body of the document
    • Incorrect: <body>Welcome to my page.</body>
    • Correct: <body><p>Welcome to my page.</p></body>
  • Nesting block-level elements within inline elements
    • Incorrect: <em><h2>Introduction</h2></em>
    • Correct: <h2><em>Introduction</em></h2>
  • Not putting quotation marks around attribute values
    • Incorrect: <td rowspan=3>
    • Correct: <td rowspan="3">
  • Using the ampersand outside of entities (use &amp; to display the ampersand character)
    • Incorrect: <title>Cars & Trucks</title>
    • Correct: <title>Cars &amp; Trucks</title>
  • Using uppercase tag names and/or tag attributes
    • Incorrect: <BODY><P>The Best Page Ever</P></BODY>
    • Correct: <body><p>The Best Page Ever</p></body>
  • Attribute minimization
    • Incorrect: <textarea readonly>READ-ONLY</textarea>
    • Correct: <textarea readonly="readonly">READ-ONLY</textarea>

This is not an exhaustive list, but gives a general sense of errors that XHTML coders often make.

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5/22/2005 9:52:10 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
XHTML & IE

Internet Explorer's support of XHTML (the successor to, and current version of, the standard document markup language HTML), is incomplete, although no claim of any support was ever made. Rather, XHTML 1.0 was intentionally designed to be usable by HTML 4.0 user agents, like Internet Explorer, if certain document authoring guidelines for backward compatibility were followed.

Furthermore, when accessing XHTML documents over a network, such support by non-XHTML-aware browsers is predicated on the documents being served with a MIME type of text/html. To the extent that these requirements are met, IE supports XHTML. XHTML has since matured, and it is now possible to author modular documents that cannot be rendered in a non-XHTML-aware browser like Internet Explorer. Furthermore, the use of the text/html MIME type is now deprecated in favor of application/xhtml+xml.

Internet Explorer does not recognize this MIME type, so instead of rendering the page, a file download prompt is presented to the user. It is possible to force IE to show application/xhtml+xml pages as either HTML or generic XML, but this workaround involves the manual editing of Windows registry. By forcing XHTML to be interpreted as HTML, it also removes the advantages of using an XML parser like well-formedness checking. Despite the advent of application/xhtml+xml, many XHTML documents on the web are still served with the text/html type in order to make XHTML documents renderable in Internet Explorer. Some consider this practice harmful as it could result in proliferation of malformatted XHTML documents.

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5/22/2005 9:46:59 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 
Style Master CSS
Founded in 1994, based in Sydney, Australia, Westciv (Western Civilisation pty. ltd.) develops innovative cross platform web development software, and some of the most comprehensive web standards training available.

A long time supporter of web standards, such as CSS and HTML/XHTML, our site features a broad range of free resources - tutorials, guides, articles and more, to help you start out, and keep growing as a standards based web developer.
Review:  "I have not found a better tool for experienced and inexperienced developers alike" "I never realized until I was forced to use Dream Weaver to create Stylesheets just how very inferior it is to Style Master for that specific purpose."

New to CSS? Style Master CSS Editor has Wizards, over 30 standards based templates, built in help and an outstanding new CSS tutorial that will have you styling your own web standards sites in no time.

Not so new? You'll find tools for upgrading legacy sites to web standards, for working with a CMS or blogging software and dealing with browser inconsistencies. And you'll love our new X-Ray feature that takes previewing and makes it interactive.

CSS expert? Style Master is a customizable design environment with sophisticated hand coding tools, editors and powerful tools for understanding complex style sheets and how they style your pages.
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5/22/2005 9:07:26 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Saturday, May 21, 2005
ASP2ASPX

ASP2ASPX is an assistant tool for migrating from ASP to ASP.NET. It can upgrade your ASP projects to ASP.NET in a minute. It will save your Time, save your Money and make your application faster, more secure, and easier to develop/maintain.

ASP2ASPX migrates from ASP to ASP.NET framework and VBScript to C# and VB.NET. 

ASP2ASPX features:
  • Provides Code-Behind function
  • Migrates from VBScript to VB.NET and C#
  • Migrates from ASP Built-In object to ASP.NET
  • Migrates from RegExp to nce.regex namespace
  • Migrates from ADODB to nceADO.NET (optional)
  • Migrates from File Access to nce.scripting namespace
  • Migrates from Installable Components to nce.mswc namespace
  • Migrates from CDONTS NewMail to nce.cdonts namespace
  • Analyzes and re-defines the variables with VB.NET or C# Data Type
  • Verifies that the parameters of subroutine is byRef or ByVal
  • Adjusts the script block and command block
  • Generates the default property of the objects
  • Generates the .NET assembly for the ActiveX/COM
  • Genetates the standard VB.NET/C# code, very maintainable and readable
  • Generates the migration report
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5/21/2005 7:58:09 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Netscape 8.0 Big holes

Netscape has released a security update to its Netscape 8.0 browser, fixing more than 40 security holes just hours after the browser's official launch. Version 8 of the browser is the first major update to it since 2002 and includes a number of new security features designed to protect users from remote attacks and malicious Web sites. It is based on the increasingly popular open-source Firefox browser, but it didn't include any of the security patches in the recently released Firefox 1.0.4.

"The browser is like a hybrid car that combines the usability of Internet Explorer with the security of Firefox," Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for AOL/Netscape, told Reuters. Critics have pointed out that the initial release, however, combines the security flaws of both browsers.

The unpatched vulnerabilities -- which were fixed in Firefox in March -- include a bug in the handling of GIF images that could allow an attacker to run malicious code on a user's system. The vulnerability could be exploited by, for example, luring users to a site displaying specially crafted images.

The unpatched holes led to the release of Netscape 8.0.1 a few hours after the release of Version 8.0. The update includes the Firefox 1.0.4 security fixes, according to Netscape. The new version has been released only for users of Microsoft's Windows operating system.

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5/21/2005 10:37:21 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
OLED
Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) technology An OLED is an electronic device made by placing a series of organic thin films between two conductors. When electrical current is applied, a bright light is emitted. This process is called electrophosphorescence. Even with the layered system, these systems are very thin, usually less than 500 nm (0.5 thousandths of a millimeter). When used to produce displays, OLED technology produces self-luminous displays that do not require backlighting. These properties result in thin, very compact displays. The displays also have a wide viewing angle, up to 160 degrees and require very little power, only 2-10 volts.

If you're fed up with fuzzy, low-resolution screens on your cell phone, digital camera, or portable music player, get ready for some relief. The first generation of handheld consumer electronics devices that use an innovative new display technology are on store shelves, with more on the way.

The main benefit of new Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) screens is the bright, clear images they produce. OLED screens refresh faster, so they're better at displaying video. And the best active-matrix models can display nearly four times as many colors as equivalent-size LCDs can reproduce.

SamSung also already released a 21" monitor but this is just the beginning. I won't go into all the applications but one only has to give it all a bit of thought. Highway signs flexible monitors or FOLED devices you can rollup and put in your computer case. Makes your mind just reel at the possible uses of this technology and honestly is the best alternative to high priced Plasma screen displays. Though they will likely have their place personally I never liked them.
Hardware
5/21/2005 9:49:21 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
AMD & Dual Core
The AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor will be launched on the first day of Computex, the mammoth show that brings most of Taiwan's computer hardware, software and technology industry face-to-face with technology buyers from around the world, the company said Friday. AMD has used Computex in prior years to launch processors. If previous years are a guide, the processor will likely be accompanied by the introduction of compatible motherboards produced by Taiwanese companies.
Dual-core processors contain two processors on a single piece of silicon and give users improved performance. This is because processor-intensive tasks such as editing video and burning optical discs can be handled independently so they don't slow each other down as might happen in a single-core processor. Most desktop and server processors have had a single core, but several dual-core chips have recently been launched.

Intel Corp., AMD's biggest rival, has already launched a dual-core version of its Pentium processor. It began shipping the chip, called the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (Pentium EE), in April, and a second chip, called the Pentium D, is due later this month.

Prototype versions of the new Athlon 64 chip scored well against the Pentium EE in tests carried out by PC World. A system based on the Athlon 64 chip achieved a score of 115 on the PC WorldBench 5 benchmark, against 95 for a system based on the Pentium EE, making the dual-core Athlon 64 system the second-fastest tested to date. The Athlon 64 also drew less power, at about 100 watts versus 145 watts for the Intel chip.

Hardware
5/21/2005 9:40:02 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 
Out Look & Large Attachments
People are all the time asking us to increase their single message size. Now lets talk for a second about your mail client. In this example I will use "Out Look". If you use POP3 protocol as most people do you are setting yourself up for a long term nightmare. We have people all the time saying that they should be able to send a 10 meg attachment. We agree! You should have whatever you want.
Well a single 10 meg attachment will not kill you. However doing this starts patterns that people tend to follow. After year of doing this you will find problems with this mail client that is full of these attachments. But I save my attachments else where not problem. Did you delete the email you certainly should as it has that 10 meg attachment in it and is now part of the .PST file that is part of your out look configuration.
So how do I manage the size of my .PST? Well here is a simple demo for managing it. Though none of this is even necessary if you simply use a free service we offer to our clients. Anyone using this to move MP3's or Warez goods will be banned. "Click Here"
Mail
5/21/2005 9:11:58 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
SpyWare Removal
Though in October of last year a "bill was passed" which is supposed to stop people from inserting spyware in your computer it is clear that certainly will have about as much effect as the antispam law likely. Though it seems there is at least one case which might be positive. Yet I recently learned over 80% of all computers connected to the web are infected. Here are some tools to remove them, these are the ones we have tested. "Ad-Aware" "SpyBot Search and Destroy" "MS AntiSpyware (beta)"
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5/21/2005 8:37:48 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Skype
If you are still in the woods and have not discovered this then get with the program. Skype is for calling other people on their computers or phones. Download Skype and start calling for free all over the world.

 

Skype is free Internet telephony that just works.

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Call ordinary phones from Skype with SkypeOut.

Top up on SkypeOut credit and use the Skype programme to call ordinary phones all over the world. Not free, but pretty cheap.

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5/21/2005 8:31:50 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [6]  | 
Spam Bayes

Looking to remove the problems of spam in your mail client then chose SpamBayes. This will install applications suitable for almost all email clients, including Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express. Out performs many commercial applications in our own real world testing.  Get SpamBayes Now!


SpamBayes will attempt to classify incoming email messages as 'spam', 'ham' (good, non-spam email) or 'unsure'. This means you can have spam or unsure messages automatically filed away in a different mail folder, where it won't interrupt your email reading. First SpamBayes must be trained by each user to identify spam and ham. Essentially, you show SpamBayes a pile of email that you like (ham) and a pile you don't like (spam). SpamBayes will then analyze the piles for clues as to what makes the spam and ham different. For example; different words, differences in the mailer headers and content style. The system then uses these clues to examine new messages.

Software
5/21/2005 8:15:04 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  | 
Ask Jeeves Why??
Wayne Cunningham noted that Ask Jeeves is a fairly big player in the adware market. I guess I should have known this, but last year Ask Jeeves bought a company with the mild-mannered name of Interactive Holdings. But look behind the curtain and see what unsavory characters lurk. Interactive Holdings was a front for iWon, My Search, My Way, and My Web Search. Ask Jeeves doesn’t exactly hide the fact–you can find these companies listed on the Ask Jeeves Web site.

My opinion of Ask Jeeves, never particularly high, has suffered a great deal due to this revelation, old news though it is. I’m generally amazed at how much financial backing adware companies get. I know that they are pulling in plenty of money, and I’ve heard of venture capitalists investing in them. But I don’t think the investors realize they are buying into a very short term business.

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5/21/2005 7:33:01 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 
 Friday, May 20, 2005
AMD 64 SuperStar
The Platinum Edition of the K8N Neo4 from MSI comes from the factory with a very high level of equipment. It uses NVIDIA's nForce4 Ultra, and MSI provides one x1 PCIe connection. The second port has the physical dimensions of x4 PCIe, but features just two lanes. The fourth lane is taken up by an additional Gigabit network chip.

The Northbridge fan, unfortunately, made quite a racket - and no wonder, running at up to 7,000 RPM. The layout is very cramped due to the high number of additional components. Besides the chipset functions, MSI included a SATA controller from Silicon Image, which adds four additional SATA ports with Command Queuing. A VIA module provides a FireWire connection. Also included are IDE round cables, SATA power switches and a USB adapter complete the package.
With 4 additional SATA Raid 5 or 10 is supported and still have 4 available channels for other simple disks. This makes a great middle level server board that can deliver high speed redundant life cycle. A board found at $139.00 that supports raid 10 has been hard to find. Actually a controller in that price range is hard to find. So if you are worried about on board raid I say buy two and keep one in a box and you are still money ahead.
Hardware
5/20/2005 8:56:21 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Washington State outlaws spyware

Leading the legislative pack, the governor of Washington signed an antisypware bill with serious penalties for violators. The law defines specific unlawful behavior, such as hijacking home and search pages, and displaying excessive numbers of pop-up ads. This law also takes on deceptive installation practices and software that reinstalls itself. The section on reinstallation makes it illegal to “Prevent, through intentionally deceptive means, an owner or operator’s reasonable efforts to block the installation or execution of, or to disable, computer software by causing the software that the owner or operator has properly removed or disabled automatically to reinstall or reactivate on the computer”. There’s some leeway in this section, since it requires “intentionally deceptive means”, which may be hard to prove in court.

Because it’s a Washington state law, violations have to occur in Washington for a prosecution to take place. But since it calls for one hundred thousand dollars in damages per violation, a lot of people may consider bringing their laptop on a vacation to the state.

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5/20/2005 5:50:15 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Netscape 8.0 Browser Features
The newest Netscape browser combines the best features from Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox but no longer tries to commandeer all search traffic to its own engine.

America Online Inc.'s Netscape 8.0 now uses Google as the default search engine. A test version of the free browser had used the Netscape engine. Out Thursday, Netscape 8.0 also lets users choose AskJeeves, and AOL says it is in talks with Yahoo as well.
Netscape also switches the placement of the boxes into which users type in search terms and Web addresses. Recognizing the growing use of search for navigation, the search box now has the more prominent spot on the left.

IE remains the dominant browser, but many users complain of its numerous security vulnerabilities and lack of modern features like tabbed browsing, which lets you visit multiple Web sites without opening multiple browser windows.

Firefox addresses those issues, but some sites won't work because they're tailored for IE. The new Netscape, which is only available for Windows PCs, addresses that quandary. It displays most sites using a Firefox engine that's embedded in Netscape's software. But, when it deems a site relatively safe, it uses the IE software engine that is built into Windows.
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5/20/2005 4:33:47 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
WD Launches NAS Device

The WD NetCenter will ship in June for $399 for a 320-Gbyte model, the highest capacity point in the NetCenter lineup. Capacities will range from 160 to 320 Gbytes. For those who want a little something extra to impress the ladies, the $299 320-Gbyte Extreme Lighted Combo Drives will add a kaleidoscope LED light, but subtract the Ethernet functionality.

In the case of the NetCenter, however, WD is offering a drive that few of its competitors do. Save for companies like Ximeta, drive makers have foregone the network-attached storage market in favor of directly attaching a drive via a USB or IEEE 1394 port, which the NetCenter can do as well.

The WD NetCenter contains a management software tool for mirroring the drive, backing up data, and protecting and sharing folders, as well as the WD EasyLink utility to set up NetCenter as a local drive on any computer on the network. The drive can also assign DHCP addresses. Only a 10/100-Mbit Ethernet connection is provided, however.

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5/20/2005 4:24:26 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Thursday, May 19, 2005
IM Worm infects AOL software

Published: February 9, 2005 | Updated: February 11, 2005

Microsoft is aware of exploit code available on the Internet that targets an issue addressed this week by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-009. Microsoft is not currently aware of any active attack utilizing this code or any customer impact. We will continue to actively monitor the situation and provide updated customer information and guidance as necessary.

Our investigation of this exploit code has verified that it does not affect users who have installed the MS05-009 update for both Microsoft Windows and MSN Messenger. Microsoft continues to recommend customers apply the MS05-009 updates to the affected products by enabling Automatic Updates in Windows as well as installing the updated version of MSN Messenger.

Actions for MSN Messenger Users Actions for MSN Messenger Users
Actions for Enterprise Customers Actions for Enterprise Customers

News Story by John E. Dunn

MAY 18, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Users of AOL’s instant messaging software, AIM, should be on the lookout for an innovative new worm variously named "Oscarbot-B" and "Doyorg" by antivirus companies. "Full Story".

Threats
5/19/2005 8:59:19 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Email Validation

The question has been asked many times how can I validate a email address? As you would expect the answer is deeper than just do a line of java script. Which one could use a java script to assure that at least the formatting is correct. A good simple sample code can be found here. "Click Here" 

If you want something that can actually Helo a email address to really know whether or not the address is bogus or not this will require a component. My personal favorite can be found here "Click Here".

Mail
5/19/2005 2:26:22 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
W32.Mytob.CF@mm

W32.Mytob.CF@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send an email to addresses that it gathers from the compromised computer.

The worm also opens a back door and spreads through the network by exploiting the Microsoft Windows DCOM RPC Interface Buffer Overrun Vulnerability (described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026) and the Microsoft Windows Local Security Authority Service Remote Buffer Overflow (as described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011).

Type: Worm
Infection Length: 56,832 bytes
 
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Virus
5/19/2005 1:06:27 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |