This virus works a little differently than what you're
used to. This one is emailed to you as an attachment - not an
executable attachment of the type .exe, .bat, .com and others, but as a
.zip file with the name Message.zip. One of the 3 files that
unzips is called Message.html. Double-clicking on that file
will result in your infection.
Help:
http://www3.ca.com/solutions/collateral.asp?CT=27081&CID=48527
My advice is that you never, ever open ANY attachment if
you are not 100% sure what it is AND why it was sent to you.
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If you're
interested in a basic word processing class, please contact Dennis Schulman at
dschulman@myrapidsys.com.
You can see our current classroom schedule and register
online by surfing over to:
http://tampa-bay.org/classroom.htm
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Free Computer Repair - TBCS Members Only
One of the great benefits
of your TBCS membership is that you can bring your computer in to our
Resource Center,
and Ron Kalmin
and his crew will repair it for free on
Monday
& Wednesday
mornings!
We can't guarantee our
work, nor can we work on all machines (try finding someone to open up your
laptop!), but our crew has a wonderful success record. We will even
install software and hardware (such as RAM, hard drives, CDROMs, etc.).
Schedule: Monday &
Wednesday 10am-1pm
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Monday, August 11, 7-9pm
Photoshop SIG. Led by Stan Ashbrook
bashbro1@tampabay.rr.com
NOTE: Stan must take the night off.
He expects to be back at 'em next week for the Photoshop Elements SIG.
Tuesday, August 12, 1-3pm
Novice SIG. Led by Jan Norman. EVERY Tuesday
afternoon.
jannorman@tampabay.rr.com
Lots of Windows basics info presented here.
Tuesday, August 12, 7-9pm
Internet
Development SIG.
Looking for a leader
But we're still meeting anyway!
This SIG has become a good place to hang out and discuss computer
programming and the Internet. We have a great time both at the SIG
and afterwards at O'Keefe's.
Wednesday, August 13, 6:30pm
Board of Directors
meeting.
Open to our members. Takes place at the Resource Center.
Thursday, August 14, 7-9pm
Web Design SIG.
Jim Cook
Saturday, August 16, 2-4pm
Microsoft Office
SIG. Led by Margaret McMullen
Margaret_Mcmullen@msn.com
Margaret is in town so the A-team will be back in charge!
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Saturday, August 16th, 10am - noon
Seminar: Searching the Internet & Power
Email
Doc will be teaching how to find "stuff" on the
Internet. Followed by Beginner/Advanced email.
Finding the information you want on the Internet has
become a fundamental objective. Another important contemporary skill
is the proper usage of email.
Doc will present these 2
topics at the Palm Harbor Library. This seminar is free & open to
the public; no registration required. You will find a map at:
www.palmharborlibrary.org/AboutUs/library.htm.
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Remember that we'll be hosting 2 representatives from
Intel at our next
General Meeting the
night of August 19th. Ralph Bond and Steve Short
will be presenting: "How to turn your
PC into a home digital movie making 'studio'".
Video tapes have a life of approximately 20 years.
It's time for you to start thinking about digitizing them and saving them
on more permanent media. Ralph & Steve will cover the
basics of how to get video tapes into the PC, how to edit them, and how to
copy them to CDs, tape, or DVDs. Their presentation assumes no prior
experience with digital video production on a PC.
I'll let Ralph describe the software and hardware
they'll use:
"Hi Dave,
Great to hear there's good initial
interest! Okay, here's our plan:
Steve and I plan to illustrate what's
available today to capture, edit and burn home movies by using Pinnacle
Expression (for rock-bottom beginners), and Studio 8 for next level up
(along with Sonic's MyDVD as well).
On the hardware side we'll do a
Digital Video Camera linked to a PC using FireWire (1394), and then show &
tell a card-based solution (one from Pinnacle and one from WinTV).
Also, we'll highlight the new generation of USB 2.0 connected external
'boxes' that allow any video source (VHS, old Hi8 analog camcorder - you
name it) to link to a PC to digitize home movies. It's all about
options and different price points.
Thanks again, Ralph ;-)"
As always, our meetings are open to the public so feel
free to bring your neighbors with you for an interesting and entertaining
evening.
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I wrote the next 2 paragraphs just before the Fourth of
July:
(http://tampa-bay.org/boardbiz/bulletin/2003/0629.htm)
Our government started the National Do Not Call
Registry this week. Once you register your phone number(s) with them,
many telemarketers will be forbidden to place calls to the numbers
you register.
Notice that I say "many" instead of "all".
Certain industries get an exemption and may still call: long-distance
phone companies, airlines, banks & credit unions, and "some" insurance
companies. You may still receive calls from political organizations,
charities, telephone surveyors or companies with
which you have an existing business relationship.
Read that last sentence very carefully. There is
an email being passed around (I've received several versions) that warns
that a prominent cola company offers a special on their product simply in
order to create an "existing business relationship" with you so
that they can market their products to you. The email warns NOT to
take advantage of this offer because of this ramification.
Now I'm far from a lawyer, but I think that there is an
excellent chance that promotional offers will indeed be used in this
fashion in the very near future. Read the wording from the FTC's
page:
(http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/dncalrt.htm)
"30. My number is on the National Do Not
Call Registry. After I bought something from a company, a telemarketer
representing that organization called me. Is this a violation?
No. Even if you put your number on the National Do Not Call Registry, a
company with which you have an established business relationship may call
you for up to 18 months after your last purchase or delivery from it, or
your last payment to it, unless you ask the company not to call again. (In
that case, the company must honor your request not to call. If they
subsequently call you again, they may be subject to a fine of up to
$11,000.) Also, if you make an inquiry to a company or submit an
application to it, for three months afterwards the company can call you.
If you make a specific request to that company not to call you, however,
then the company may not call you, even if you have an established
business relationship with that company."
I'm not the only one advising against. Here's
another resource:
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/bl_do_not_call2.htm
I hear that 30 million people have registered phone
numbers with the registry - over 2 million of them from Florida.
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