Weekly Advice Section
ComCoTek posts tips, advice, virus alerts,
and other general IT information on our 'Advice'
page. Check us out weekly and pick up some
usefull tidbits of information for your
daily working enviroment.
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Recent Virus Alerts
PWSteal.Tarno.S
PWSteal.Tarno.S is a Trojan horse that steals sensitive information
such as user name and password details. It also downloads remote files
and lowers security settings.
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W32.Beagle.DV
W32.Beagle.DV is a Trojan that pretends to be a software cracking program,
but it attempts to download malicious content from the Internet.
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Information Provided by
Symantec.com.
Where you can also find information about anti-virus products and virus removal.

Tips and Tricks
Are some entries missing from the Start Menu?
In Windows Me, 2000, and XP, Microsoft has added a feature called "Personalized Menus."
This is one of the worst designs they've ever inflicted on us.
Instead of allowing users to turn on or off certain features, Windows does it automatically, hiding items that aren't used frequently.
This constantly changing interface is not only annoying, but it goes against one of the major precepts behind good user interface design - keep the interface consistent!
Here's how to fix it:
Windows XP:
Select Settings in your Start Menu, and then select Taskbar & Start Menu.
Choose the Start Menu tab, choose Classic Start Menu, and click Customize.
Turn off the Use Personalized Menus option, and click Ok when you're done.
Read more
Information by
Annoyances.org

Technical Buzz-Words
Spyware
Spyware gathers information about Internet users without their knowledge or consent
and delivers that information to advertisers or others who have access to the
information. Users can get spyware in their systems by downloading certain programs
or in the form of a virus.
Router
Typically a machine, though it can also be software, that acts as a gateway
to provide access to network resources, irrespective of the protocols or
operating systems the users use.
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