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November 04, 2001 ISSUE 39
C O M P U T E R H O P E . C O M N E W S L E T T E R
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl39.htm -
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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F2F ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/f/f2f.htm ) -
Short for Face to Face, this term is used to tell the individual that you may be talking to
that you would like to meet them face to face. In other words meet them in the real world
and not over chat or the Internet.
Generally speaking when talking to anyone over the Internet that you do not know it is a
good idea to meet in a public location.
See a complete dictionary of computer terms at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
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* Reuters: Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Justice Department on Friday announced a settlement
in their three-year-old antitrust case, with the software giant accepting restrictions on
its business practices but avoiding harsher penalties.
- Amazon launches virtual credit cards
- Yahoo releases Messenger 5.0
- Sony robot-dog gets hacked
- Sun threatens suit against Microsoft
- Microsoft patches XP laptop freeze
- Winamp locks onto Windows title bars
- Software maker BEA cuts jobs
- Hybrid Networks cuts 15 jobs
- NEC sends workers home at lower pay
- Routers could become targets for Denial-of-service attacks
- Court allows DVD hacker software
- AT&T broadband to hike cable rates by 5.5 percent
- U.S. reaches settlement with Microsoft
Find all of the above articles and latest news at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
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* Virus: No new major virus threats this week.
* Security:
- Computer World: Denial-of-service attacks that target and use misconfigured network
routing equipment pose an imminent and real threat to Internet security, according to a
recent report (download .pdf) by the federally funded CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/DoS_trends.pdf
- ZDNet news: Software flaws in the security of Microsoft's Passport authentication system
left consumers' financial data wide open, causing the software giant to remove a key service
from the Internet to protect people from having their data stolen, a company representative
acknowledged Friday.
* Privacy: No new Privacy information this week.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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*With the new month of November, Computer Hope has posted its new monthly Poll - "What is
your favorite computer related movie?" Quiz - "Which of the following is a PC video file
extension?" and tip - "Windows XP".
-Completed additional pages on our dictionary and posted the complete copy of all dictionary
definitions beginning with F.
- Corrected various errors on our pages.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/whatnew.htm
See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chtop10.htm
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5. Hot computer issues.
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NTLDR is missing
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm
How do I get a boot diskette?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000433.htm
How to lock / unlock the hard disk drive.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000355.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/qanda.htm
See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
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6. All Talk
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http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
This week we would like to talk about a great free product from AT&T that allows users to
remotely control a computer over a network. VNC short for Virtual Network Computing allows
users to remotely control a computer running the software on numerous platforms. For any
user who needs to remotely control a computer from anywhere or needs to access another
platform easily, we highly recommend you try this utility.
The above items as well as other new and innovative services and technologies can be found
on our What's Hip section on our News page at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
We would love to hear your comments; suggestions, interests, opinions, fun web sites or what
ever is on your mind. E-mail us at newsletter@computerhope.com
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