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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Vol. 8, No. 25<SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>7-17-08</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>1 Once more with
feeling<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>2 On THAT?!?<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>3 Hacker whacked,
spammer canned, Mars Needs Women, rock on</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>4 If the boss asks,
you don’t know us</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Summer is here and
with it comes the yard chores, recreational activities, picnics and
barbecues.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The poor computer sits
idle and unloved, common maintenance activities left for “another
day”.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Some things can
admittedly be postponed, such as defragging and spyware scanning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you aren’t surfing you aren’t
infesting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re antivirus will
take care of itself and stay updated, as well as prevent things from just
crawling in.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>One thing you can’t
afford to neglect, though, is the backing up of important data.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many things can happen regardless of use
levels that can result in the loss of everything.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those priceless graduation pictures,
that music collection you spent months converting from your old CDs or LPs into
MP3 files, that database full of serial numbers and purchase prices of
everything of importance in the house.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Any of these and
more could be lost to drive crash, fire, theft, alien invasion, you name it and
it can happen to ruin your day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If
nothing else just making frequent backups of the most important files, say your
financial and tax records, can save you severe headaches later.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Since the last time
we addressed backups a few years ago the options have exploded.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Back in the day a second internal hard
drive and CDs were about it for anything resembling efficiency and ease of
use.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tape has been around for years
but it’s expensive and on the home level notoriously prone to failure.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t even think about floppies, if you
even own a drive that will read them.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Today you have
internal drives, USB drives, network drives, CDs, DVDs, online backups and flash
drives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What a difference two or
three years makes.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>For portability you
can’t beat optical disks or flash drives, although 2.5” USB drives offer far
more storage and will still fit in a shirt pocket.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>3.5” USB and network drives (known as
NAS, or Network Addressable Storage) offer capacity in a less portable format
and online storage gives security in both distance and safety.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Prices range from
10-15¢ per disk for blank CDs and DVDs to $100 or more for a large USB/NAS
drive, with flash drives falling toward the lower end and online backup services
using a monthly subscription model.</FONT></P>
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size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Any and all are fine
for backups and a good plan is a mixture of two or more.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personally I burn the most important
items to optical and store them in a drawer at work, use a NAS box located in
the opposite end of the house for major frequent backups and a 2.5” USB drive to
save the less important but larger files like photos and media files.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That last one stays in my laptop bag and
travels along with me.</FONT></P>
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size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>This gives me the
offsite storage of the most important items, a certain amount of protection for
major amounts of data due to catastrophic loss and easy portability of my fun
stuff like pictures and music.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
best of all worlds.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Regardless of what
and how many solutions you use the important thing is to just do backups.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you don’t you WILL lose data, maybe
not next week or next month but eventually you’re going to kick yourself when
something bad happens.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Now pick an option
or two and get started!</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Kevin Mefford,
Editor</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="mailto:pcguru@microdome.net"><FONT
size=4>pcguru@microdome.net</FONT></A></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Terry
Wise</FONT></P>
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href="http://www.ratland.com/"><FONT size=4>www.ratland.com</FONT></A></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5>Tech News of the Week</FONT></H1>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>A city computer
engineer accused of tampering with San Francisco's new<BR>computer network to
give himself exclusive access was ordered held on<BR>$5 million bail.
Looks like hacking isn't all fun and games anymore:<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZ0u3sipQ_XEvgvKj-Y678YpurDQD91V7ID80"><FONT
size=4>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZ0u3sipQ_XEvgvKj-Y678YpurDQD91V7ID80</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
size=4>A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday
for<BR>blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period.
The<BR>court of public opinion voted for the death penalty:<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148512/spammer_gets_30_months_for_inundating_aol.html"><FONT
size=4>http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148512/spammer_gets_30_months_for_inundating_aol.html</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
size=4>A lot more Martian rocks were altered by water than
scientists<BR>originally thought, suggesting that early Mars was a very wet
place.<BR>And where there's water, there's....bikinis?<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-07-16-mars-early-water_N.htm"><FONT
size=4>http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-07-16-mars-early-water_N.htm</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
size=4>Toshiba just added a 400GB model to its range of 2.5-inch, 7,200
RPM<BR>drives targeted for notebook use. Now you can take all
that<BR>"borrowed" music with you:<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=290"><FONT
size=4>http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=290</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
size=4>Copy us on the good stuff!</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Matthew
Dattilo</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="mailto:thepcgurus@gmail.com"><FONT
size=4>thepcgurus@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT size=4> </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.mattstodayinhistory.com/"><FONT
size=4>www.mattstodayinhistory.com</FONT></A></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5>Download of the Week</FONT></H1>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -1.25in 0pt 0in"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4>PHUN is a timewaster designed as
a computer science student’s master thesis project.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Watch it at YouTube, </FONT><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM"><FONT
size=4>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM</FONT></A><FONT size=4> .<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you decide you’d like to d<SPAN
style="COLOR: black">esign some outlandish creations which bounce, which collide
and which are liquid. Then, you can connect them all with hinges, motors, chains
or springs, and set it all in crazy motion. Have some PHUN.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s free.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Read the tutorial before downloading and
installing: <A
href="http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki/Tutorial">http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki/Tutorial</A>
.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This stuff is beyond me, so
direct your questions to the website.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -1.25in 0pt 0in"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4>Carlita
Lupino<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><A
href="mailto:Cards57@gmail.com"><FONT
size=4>Cards57@gmail.com</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Email Question of the Week</H2>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>Q:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ordinarily, I consider myself to be
computer saavy and very cynical.<BR>Don't trust anything on the internet, yeah,
yeah, yeah....<BR><BR>This morning, I get up to find that I have a whole mess of
trojans,<BR>password stealers and implements of mass destruction on my
machine,<BR>from what I thought was my antivirus program. There's a
"removal<BR>tool" from Antivirus 2009 that I need to get to remove these
malicious<BR>tools since my free version isn't doing the work.<BR><BR>What do I
do? I give them my credit card and order the $79.95, three<BR>year
upgrades package! When the program failed to give me a receipt,<BR>I knew
I'd been screwed. As I was looking up the number for my bank<BR>to stop
the transaction, they called me, saying there's been activity<BR>they want to
verify.<BR><BR>Oh glorious day! I get to cancel my debit card and have a
new one<BR>mailed to me. Then I get to notify all my automatic
billing<BR>statements that I have a new credit card. When the fee is
posted to<BR>my checking account, I also get to dispute the amount and try to
get<BR>my money returned.<BR><BR>Here's the question: Now that I have this
bogus software, what's the<BR>best way to get rid of it? I am presently
running my AVG (Free<BR>Version) to remove any viruses that may be present, but
want to fully<BR>insure that this does not happen and that the Antivirus 2009 is
fully<BR>removed. Will also follow with spybot and adaware. Do you
have any<BR>suggestions, please???<BR><BR>Keep up the good work! I
appreciate the work you guys and gals do on<BR>the newsletter and look forward
to receiving it each week. Thanks for<BR>all your hard work.<BR><BR>Yes,
I'm feeling pretty stupid now....</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>A:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As far as getting rid of the Antivirus
2009 program, click on this<BR>link: </FONT><A
href="http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=5178"><FONT
color=#800080
size=4>http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=5178</FONT></A><FONT
size=4> and<BR>follow the instructions listed there. I would also follow
it up with<BR>a Spybot: Search & Destroy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As far as the rest of the e-mail, I'll
point<BR>out the old phrase, caveat emptor. The website listed above
makes<BR>note that the trojans that were installed on your computer
advertise<BR>the Antivirus 2009 software as part of the trojan. Before you
install<BR>anything, run the program through google and read the top 5
links. If<BR>any of them mention to not install the program, I'd suggest
that you<BR>heed the advice. Also, you can always send us a question here
at the<BR>team, and we'll take a look and see what is out there.
It's<BR>unfortunate that this has happened to you, but this is a lesson to
us<BR>all that it can and does happen out here in the world. Good
thing<BR>that the bank is working with you to get this straightened out.
If<BR>you need anything else, feel free to e-mail back and we'll see what
we<BR>can get done.<BR><BR>Hope this helps,<BR><BR>Daniel A.
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