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Editorial

It's been a busy month for us at Engadine Web Services, however we managed to find the time to attend the Australian Moto GP at Phillip Island last weekend.

For those interested in viewing some happy snaps, click the following URL. Australian Moto GP October 2004. These snaps help strengthen the saying "The Journey is Everything".

Bruce Beresford, Manager & Editor

In this Issue:

• Featured Site
• Virus Watch
• FILExt
• Shoot The Messenger
• Google 'saved' Australian hostage
• Quotes of the day

Featured Site  

This month's featured site is Marcus & Rose Manufacturing Pty Ltd.

Marcus & Rose is a quality driven Manufacturing & General Engineering company.

In business since 1969 the company is a diverse manufacturing enterprise, based in Caringbah south of Sydney NSW, supplying quality products and services to a variety of industries. We specialize in the fabrication of light to heavy gauge mild steel, stainless steel and aluminium products.

Visit the Marcus & Rose website and review their services offered.

Virus Watch  

Latest Threats - from Symantec

19-10-04 W32.Spybot.FCD

19-10-04 Backdoor.Roxe.B

FILExt  

A file name consists of a name plus an extension e.g. a word docment file could have a file name mydocument.doc where the file extension is "doc". Some people have their Windows Explorer set up so that common file extensions are not displayed. I'm not sure this is a good idea as you will never get use to extensions and what they represent.

So what am I alluding to? Have you ever had a file with a file extension that you did not recognise? I have. Well I found a site that provides you will all the information you ever wanted to know about a particular extension.

FILExt is a detailed database of file extensions and programs that use them. FILExt is not a general support site. A search on the database here might very well result in multiple possibilities; it will be up to you to determine which, if any, of these are the program/format you require information about. To help, many of the links on this site will open a new browser window so you have constant reference to the FILExt data.

Review the FILExt site at http://filext.com/index.php

Shoot The Messenger  

Are you using Windows NT/2000/XP and do you suffer from those pop-up window messages appearing on your screen telling you that your browser is running slow or just advertising.

Well I have found the answer to getting rid of them forever...

Some background: The Windows "Messenger Service" is being exploited to spray the Internet with unsolicited commercial eMail. The receipt of a single UDP packet can cause a "Messenger Service" dialog to pop-up on the user's screen. It is possible for the sender to "spoof" (falsify) the packet's "Source IP", making these packets impossible to trace back to their origin. If our experience with eMail Spam is any model, we can expect to see a lot more of this in the future.

"Shoot The Messenger" is a 22 kbyte utility gives users immediate control over the Windows Messenger service. Shoot The Messenger allows any Windows NT/2000/XP user to easily stop and disable the unnecessary Messenger Service running in their machines.

Visit the site and download the utility, its free... http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

Download and run our small (22 kbyte) "ShootTheMessenger.exe" utility. It will display the current status of your system's Messenger Service. The button near the bottom of its window will allow you to set the service to whichever state — running or disabled — that you desire.

If, for any reason, you should ever choose to re-enable the Windows Messenger Service, simply re-run ShootTheMessenger to do so.

ShootTheMessenger supports two command line convenience options which can be useful for operation from corporate logon scripts or batch command files:

ShootTheMessenger disable

ShootTheMessenger enable

Google 'saved' Australian hostage  

An Australian journalist kidnapped in Iraq was freed after his captors checked the popular internet search engine Google to confirm his identity according to a BBC News Article.

Google is so mainstream now even the terrorists are using it on a regular basis.

Quotes of the Day  

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

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Another one that I remember...

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

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