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Hello PressEnter Subscribers!

Welcome to our May 2005 eNewsletter. Here are our hopes for you this
month: May you have worms in your garden and not in your computer;
may your airline food be better than a bag of peanuts and a soft drink;
may you get 50 mpg with inexpensive gasoline; and "may the force be with
you." Read on for further details.

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Here's what's inside our May 2005 Newsletter:

A. Warning! - Tricky New "Sober Worm" Discovered
B. PressEnter News - Improved Webmail and Holiday Office Hours
C. Ask The Help Desk - How Do I Stop Annoying Animations And Irritating
Music On Websites?
D. Great Sites To Check Out In May
E. Short Tutorial - Setting Up AutoComplete On Your Browser

The PressEnter Newsletter Team

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A. Warning! - Tricky New "Sober Worm" Discovered

There's an e-mail worm that recently began to circulate around the
Internet called the "Sober.P worm." (The worm only infects Windows-based
systems - not Macintosh, Unix, or Linux systems.) Also known as the
Sober.P worm, this new variant of the Sober worm was first discovered on
April 19, 2005, and includes a tricky Trojan horse feature. The text of
the deceptive e-mail message promises the recipient a benefit if he/she
opens the accompanying attachment but something quite different occurs
when the attachment is opened.

Below is a link to the exact text of an actual Sober.P e-mail
worm currently circulating the Web:

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sober_p.shtml

As you can see, the goal of the worm is to trick you into thinking
that the sender has received some of your private e-mail messages and is
simply returning them to you within a zipped attachment. When you open the
attachment, you are infected with the Sober.P worm. Pretty slick!

The Sober.P worm is a mass-mailing e-mail worm. Once the attachment
is opened, it sends itself as an attachment to e-mail addresses found
within the infected machine. Like most worms circulating around the
Internet, the Sober.P worm also has a "spoofing" feature that
conceals the actual sender of the e-mail message by randomly selecting
e-mail addresses from the infected computer's system to disguise the
source of the e-mail. So, if a person receives this e-mail worm from a
co-worker or relative, chances are that the person it shows being sent
from was probably not the person who actually sent it.

Remember, receiving an e-mail attachment from a trusted friend or
a reliable source may not necessarily mean that they were the actual
senders of the message and attachment. Also, the ultimate responsibility
of protecting your computer against worms and viruses lies with you. Many
viruses and worms not only spread via e-mail, but also through the
sharing of files when using floppy disks, zip disks, CDs and networks,
as well as when downloading software from the Internet. We encourage
each of our users to install and utilize virus-scanning software,
to update this software on a regular basis, and to scan all incoming
e-mail attachments before opening them, even if the attachment shows
coming from a reliable source.

PressEnter strongly suggests that you install and frequently update
an anti-virus software package. F-Secure anti-virus is available from
PressEnter, please email technology@pressenter.com, or call for details
on the F-Secure Internet Security suite.

F-Secure Anti-virus detected the Sober.P email worm on May 2nd, 2005.
The update for detecting the virus was completed and available for
download the same day, protecting all F-Secure users from this threat.

B. PressEnter News - Improved Webmail and Holiday Office Hours
Improved Webmail
PressEnter now offers a new version of Webmail with more convenient
options for checking your PressEnter email while you are away from
your computer. Some of the new options include an improved address
book, better attachment handling, automatic copy-to-self option,
full support for HTML email, and optional blocking of images within
messages. To use the new version of Webmail visit:

http://my.pressenter.com/

Office Hours
Our offices will be closed on Monday, May 30th for Memorial Day.
We will reopen at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 31st.

C. Ask The Help Desk - How Do I Stop Annoying Animations And Irritating
Music On Websites?

Question: Sometimes when I open a web page that contains information I'm
looking for it has ads that flash brightly or contain silly animations.
Other times a site will have annoying music. I turn down the volume
and try to ignore the ads but is there a better way to deal with pages
like this?

Answer: Both the animations found in many banner ads and the background
music played on some websites can truly drive a person batty. The "Stop"
button on browsers used to be the simple fix. When you'd come to a site
that contained irritating animations or unpleasant music, you'd simply
wait for the page to fully load and then click your cursor arrow on the
browser's "Stop" button. The animations and the music would stop but
you'd be able to read the information on the page that you were after --
in peace.

The "Stop" button worked (on Windows when using Internet Explorer)
because most web developers created their animations in gifs and even
attached the sound file (music) to the gifs. The "Stop" button still
works on gifs. Today, however, many animations are developed in a
software called Flash. Clicking on the browser's "Stop" button doesn't
kill Flash-based animations. However, if you right-click on the Flash
animation, you'll get a pop-up window displaying controls that may or
may not allow you to stop or pause the animation. It depends on how the
developer set up the Flash file.

On a Macintosh, the Safari browser doesn't have separate buttons for
"Stop" and "Refresh." This makes it impossible to stop animations after
the page loads.

Firefox has separate "Stop" and "Refresh" buttons but, once the page
loads, the "Stop" button isn't functional.

So, in summary, either turn down your volume and grin and bear the
animations or find a more pleasant site to visit.

D. Great Sites To Check Out This Month

Photos Of Food Served By Airlines Around The World
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http://AirlineMeals.net/

AirlineMeals.net claims to be "the world's first and leading site about
nothing but airline food." This site is filled with over eleven thousand
photos of, you guessed it, food served by airlines. Links include images
of crew meals, airline lounge food, airport restaurant food, and meal of
the week archives. Dozens of airlines are represented including Iceland
Air, Aero Mexico, United Airlines, Qantas, Air Namibia, Croatia Airlines,
Air China, and British Airways. (Check out the fancy food served on the
Concorde!) Images are submitted by regular folks like you and me who
fly. So the next time you take a flight, don't forget your camera!

Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
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http://starwars.com/

This month marks the release date of the highly anticipated premiere of
the last of the three prequels to the Star Wars saga. Star Wars Episode
III - Revenge of the Sith is George Lucas's final Star Wars themed
movie. Production was a three-year endeavor and the special effects
promise to be amazing once again. Check out this site for updated
information, movie trailers, and more.

What Kind Of Dog Would You Be?
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http://Gone2theDogs.com/

If you were a dog, what kind of a dog would you be? You probably wonder
about this all of the time. Well this site has the answer. The website
promotes a British film to be released this summer called Gone To The
Dogs. Click on either the "Game" link or the "What Dog Are You?" link
and answer ten personality-related questions. The site will then tell
you the breed and traits of the dog you'd be ... if you were to turn
into a dog, of course.

Save Money When Filling Your Car With Fuel
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http://www.FuelEconomy.gov/

With fuel prices so high right now, we could all use some tips on saving
money at the gas pump. This site provides information on how to calculate
your MPG, how hybrid cars work, how cars are tested for fuel economy
ratings, and more. A section on gas mileage tips will help you get the
best gas mileage possible. It's a pretty handy site to review before
you take this summer's road trip vacation.

USDA Introduces New Interactive Food Guide Pyramid
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http://MyPyramid.gov

The U.S. Department of Agriculture introduced a new Food Guide Pyramid
late last month called MyPyramid. MyPyramid is triangle-shaped like the
old pyramid but now includes six colored vertical stripes representing
food categories. The USDA's interactive site, MyPyramid.gov, allows
consumers to enter their own age, gender, and average daily physical
activity for a customized report of suggested daily amounts and types
of foods to consume. Unfortunately, chocolate was passed over again as
one of the main food groups.

E. Short Tutorial - Setting Up AutoComplete On Your Browser

Your browser may have a button on its toolbar called "AutoComplete." (It's
called "AutoFill" on a Macintosh.) AutoComplete is a useful yet
underutilized feature which is available on most browsers. Its purpose
is to save you time when filling out online forms when placing orders
with online merchants. Rather than filling out an order form each time
you make an online purchase, browsers provide a place to store this
information to then use as needed when placing an order. Here's how to
set up AutoComplete on your browser:

Utilizing AutoComplete When Using Internet Explorer Browser

1) Open Internet Explorer.

2) Click on "Tools" on your browser's menu bar and select "InternetOptions."

3) Click on the "Content" tab and select "AutoComplete."

4) Check the box next to "Forms" and click "OK."

5) Click the "My Profile" button.

6) If you have placed contact information about yourself within your
Address Book, AutoComplete can use it for your profile. Select the second
option ("Select an existing entry from your Address Book to represent your
profile") and then choose an Address Book entry by clicking on it. Click
"OK" and this will be your profile.

7) If you do not have the contact information about yourself within your
Address Book, select the first option ("Create a new entry in the Address
Book to represent your profile"), fill in the information on the form,
and click "OK." The next time you go to make a purchase online or fill out
a form, AutoComplete will take your profile information and automatically
fill out the form for you once you key in the first few letters.

8) To make changes to your profile information, click on the "My Profile"
button under the "Content" tab of the "Internet Options" window and fill
in the blanks in your profile. You can also simply go to your Address
Book in Outlook Express and make your revisions there.

Utilizing AutoFill When Using Macintosh's Safari Browser

1) Open Safari.

2) Click your cursor arrow on "Safari" on your browser's menu bar and
drop down to "Preferences."

3) Click on the "AutoFill" icon.

4) Make sure there is a check in the box next to "Using info from my
Address Book card."

5) Click on the "Edit" button to enter or update your information.

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We hope you found this newsletter to be informative. It's our way of
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Best regards,

The PressEnter Newsletter Team
PressEnter! Internet

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