Specifications

Orange County IBM PC Users’ Group
April 2004
11
Peripherals
Newsletter contributors
Bruce Pechman, Carl Westberg,
Charlie Moore, Dick Tooley, Donald
Gonse, Gary Covington III, Herb
Goodman, Linda Gonse, Lothar
Loehr, Marsee Henon, Mike Lyons,
Rich Blumenthal, Siles Bazerman,
Ted Wirtz, Terry Currier, Tim
O’Reilly, Tony Lake
Newsletter deadline
April 24
Internet Humor
Now, if you could just figure out which program sent
you this message…!
Submitted by Linda Gonse
Only US Receives More Spam than China
According to the Internet Society of China, in 2003, spam accounted
for nearly one in every three e-mails received in China. Chinese servers
received at least 150 billion spam e-mails last year, placing the country just
behind the US in volume of spam received. http://tinyurl.com/39cpd
Asia-Pacific Region Joins in Fighting Spam
The passage of the anti spam legislation in other parts of the world,
together with recent legal action brought against spammers by four major
Internet service providers (ISP) has inspired Asia-Pacific governments and
businesses to examine “measures” they can take to stem spam’s tide.
Japan already has anti-spam legislation in place; Australia’s anti-spam laws
take effect in April. http://tinyurl.com/34raz The Korean government
aims to cut the amount of spam in half by the end of 2004. The country’s
Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) hit 68 spammers with
stiff fines and sent warnings to an additional 127 entities. http://
tinyurl.com/2qt7u
Phishing Scam Installs Keystroke Loggers
AusCERT released an advisory about a phishing scam that exploits a
vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). The phony e-mail
provides a link to what appears to be a legitimate banking site, but which
actually downloads a keystroke logging program onto their computers. The
person is then redirected to the real bank web site and the keystroke
logger collects the personal information entered and sends it to an
anonymous mail server. http://tinyurl.com/3yn5h
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Hardware Windows…
(Continued from page 4)
“Primary IDE Channel”). Click the
Advanced Settings tab, and under
Device 0 (master) or Device 1 (slave)
(depending on how your drive is set
up), select PIO Only from the Transfer
Mode drop-down menu. Click OK.
Windows 98/Me. Open the System
control panel and choose the Device
Manager tab. Double-click CD-ROM,
then double-click your drive. Select the
Settings tab, uncheck the DMA option,
and click OK. Remember to reverse
the previous steps once your DVD
drive’s firmware is installed.
Submitted by Marsee Henon
The first rule of intelligent tinker-
ing is to keep all the pieces.
— Aldo Leopold
AutoPlay…
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• You can also click the box
“Always do the selected action every
time I insert a CD,” but this is not cool
because you won't always choose the
same action.
If you’ve inadvertently clicked that
box, you can undo it by right clicking
on your CD drive from within My
Computer. Select Properties, then
click the Autoplay tab and check the
box “Prompt Me Each Time To Select
An Action.”
Submitted by Tony Lake