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Greetings to all of you!
I am tardy with my first installment of the Rocky
Report, I apologize for that, but I think my tardiness has made me more
mindful of my purpose for creating this newsletter.
I want to begin our new relationship here with my solemn promise to all of you
that I will never share your email addresses with anyone. Please know that your
privacy is safe and very important to me.
This past weekend, I drove to Dallas, Texas to attend a Microsoft Seminar on the
newest operating systems, Windows 2000 Professional (for businesses and
mobile computers like laptops) and Windows ME (Millennium for home users).
I went to this seminar, not because I am recommending that you all get the
newest Windows operating system, in fact, wait at least a year or more before
you buy this, BUT, in my business, I will be facing it soon with someone's
computer, and I don't want to look like a dork :). Got to keep up with things,
you know.
It was all very interesting, and somewhat over my head in some areas like
building big server computers, and networks with 2000 computers hooked up to
several other server computers and on and on and on... But I did get a lot
out of it, and my husband, John won a great door prize of MUCHO SOFTWARE!
:) :) HAPPY ME!! What were the odds?! :) :)
Anyway, on the road trip down to Dallas, I was bending my husband's ear about
how I ought to make a CD-Rom, or write a book to help people really understand
their computers AND the Internet, and to feel confident with them. But, so many
people don't want to read a book, and I know there is a
bundle of software out there to attempt to do these things. And then it dawned
on me just what this newsletter was all about, my vehicle to do just that, give
you the tools to be confident computer users. Only, I'm going to give you the
tools in small doses, so that you can use this knowledge, and
make it your own!
I hope that sounds really good to you. I do this very thing for people from my
website, www.internetguideandmore.com
and these computer GEMS :) will be posted on that website and my other
website www.rockyreport.com . I hope
you will think of my websites as your own personal websites to use as guides to
answers and a greater understanding of your computer and the internet. I think
of my websites as a Public Service, and I guess I'm weird, but I enjoy answering
your questions and providing you with my experience and so-called expertise (in
some fields). Fortunately, I have learned where to find most of the answers, if
I don't have them readily in mind. So think of me and the newsletter as a FREE
online seminar :). I like the sound of that!
So, that being said, I have in mind many useful skills I'd like to teach you
all, so that you will be able to have more control of your computers, and your
internet and email experiences. Also, from time to time, I might have a
particularly good article from someone else, or answer to a question from
my website to share with you, and maybe even an endorsement of someone or their
product. I will try to keep this a fun and informative editorial, and I hope
that you all feel like you have a "SECRET WEAPON" against some of the
computer and internet unknowns.
Speaking of UNKNOWNS, let's get right after it with:
HOW TO FIND OUT IF THE MESSAGE YOU JUST RECEIVED ABOUT A
POSSIBLE VIRUS IS FOR REAL.
1. When you receive that email that someone lovingly passes along about the
"next notorious virus that will soon rip your computer to shreds,
BEWARE!!" Don't Panic!
It might just be a hoax! And often times, is a hoax.
2. Find the name of the virus in your email, and either write it down to
remember, or copy (highlight the words by holding down your left mouse button
and drag across words to turn blue, or whatever color your highlighting color
is, and then right click with the mouse, menu appears, and then choose
"copy ").
3. Next step, go to this website by clicking on this hyperlink to Symantec's
Virus Encyclopedia:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html
(Hyperlink -- An icon, graphic, word or website address in a file that, when
clicked with the mouse, automatically opens another file for viewing.) If
your browser doesn't work with hyperlinks, and AOL might not, for instance, you
will have to write it down and type in address bar (located at the top of the
browser) , or copy/paste it into the address bar of your
internet browser (the program you use to search the internet, www.)
4. If you have used the copy/paste for the Symantec (Norton Antivirus People)
website, you need to return here to copy the "dreaded Email virus
name" again, and then paste it (right click in the blank space and choose
paste), or type it in the blank space right before the word SEARCH on the
web page. Now click on SEARCH, and wait for the results. You will know then, if
you should BEWARE.
Quick Trick: On your keyboard, locate Ctrl (control) and the letter
"d". Click on both of these keys at the same time. Now look at
your favorites menu, you have just book marked or inserted this website into
your favorite's menu (usually at the bottom of your list). Do this on the Virus
Encyclopedia website (or any other website you like) to be able to get to it
whenever you need it by clicking on your favorites list and then the site.
5. This website is furnished to you by Symantec to help you sort out the real
viruses from the hoaxes. They provide this virus search engine for you to
display the REAL story, and if it turns out to be a virus that you may suspect
your computer of contracting from an email, it can provide the fix,
or antidote. This is a very powerful website, in my opinion, and it gives you
POWER!
6. If you have any questions about this topic, or any other one, please email me
at:
rocky1@rockyreport.com
I will be happy to answer your questions to
the
best of my ability. I may even use some of your questions as topics in this
newsletter, so feel free to email me.
I hope that I explained the Virus Encyclopedia adequately for all of you. I hope
you feel that you have more POWER now. You do! You now know how to research
email viruses. ALRIGHT!!!
One more thing about viruses, I strongly recommend that you purchase an
anti-virus software program for your computer. The newest ones (I like Norton's
Anti-virus 2000)
have email protection built in. It is invaluable for anyone who sends and
receives email. Your friends never mean to send you a virus, they just
"worm" their way into emails sometimes, and you can save yourself a
lot of grief if you get this software. :)
(But before you run out and get a virus scanner, let me give you some warnings
and fixes for the little problems that can crop up with this software in a
separate memo version that I will put together in a couple weeks just to help
out here.)
This will be a monthly publication for now. I may try to do some extra news
whenever I can, but for now, I don't want to wear you out, and I want you to
look forward to seeing the "Rocky Report" in your mailbox. If you have
any
comments, please feel free to write: rocky1@rockyreport.com
I hope you liked my first offering!
See you all later on... And "feel the POWER that you are gaining
already"!
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