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I have published the July 31 2009 COOLSITES Newsletter #228 Mark Donaldson.
The following is an excerpt from this weeks newsletter. To see the full newsletter with all of the COOLSITES links please click and bookmark this link:
http://luem42.googlepages.com/coolsites.html and check it each week. Thank you. Mark.
July 31 2009 COOLSITES Newsletter #228 Mark Donaldson
In Memorial
To Our Beloved Cat "Sweetie" Who Died of Kidney Failure
She Was The Smartest Cat We Ever Knew
January 1996 To July 17 2009
Major changes to this newsletter are coming soon
Google is discontinuing Google Pages and will be moving my archive to Google Sites. However their hosting rules will also change. My html files will not be allowed due to "security reasons". This means I would have to use Google's online webpage creation program which would be more time consuming for me and bigger webpages that load slower for you.
I have checked other free hosts and can not find any that will allow me to continue as before without cost. Therefore I will have to change things. What this will mean for subscribers is very little difference. What this will mean for non-subscribers who view the newsletter online and people accessing old newsletters, "Just The Links" and "Specialized Search Engines" webpages may be drastic. I will keep you informed. Mark.
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Carol’s Word Bytes Newsletter is published twice a month, both a free and a premium edition. A premium edition gives you access to an archive of five years of information in a downloadable .pdf format, as well as discounts on all books and tutorials.
If you just use MS Office programs occasionally you should at least subscribe to her free newsletter. But if you want to become a Office power user get her paid premium subscription now.
Carol's Corner Office - Microsoft Office tips and tricks - Home of the Word Bytes Newsletter:
http://www.carolscorneroffice.com/
Word Bytes - Free Edition July 15, 2009:
http://www.carolscorneroffice.com/free_newsletter/20090715free.php
Subscribers who don't receive the newsletter, due to stupid filters, may use a private link to download the newsletter in the text ( .txt ), html ( .html ) and the MS Word Doc ( .doc ) format in a zip file. I will upload the zip files to my archive site right after I send out the newsletter on Friday morning. If a subscriber doesn't receive the newsletter, by 9am ET, they can quickly download it, unzip it and peruse it offline. You can also read it online from there.
If you are a subscriber and don't know the private link you can email me for it. These zip files are less than 40K which is smaller than the 100K or more for the newsletter.
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COOLSITES is a list of safe, fun, useful, informative and just plain cool websites and programs that are FREE, FREE and FREE. All of the programs and websites I list are free. If I list anything that is so good but isn't free I will list the price with it.
My website is Dialup Friendly. All pages except "Just The Links" and "Specialized Search Engines" load up in under 15 seconds.
Wherever you go if you see the user name LUEM42 that's me
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Pirillo's Picks for February 13 2007
"And if you think that's a lot of links, you should see how many
http://luem42.com/ collects every day. It's enough to make you wanna never leave the house again as long as you live" Yours Digitally, Chris Pirillo
http://chris.pirillo.com/
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Clif Notes Newsletter, Feb 2007
http://freewarewiki.com/ClifNotes
"The COOLSITES Newsletter - find the coolest links here. This fella named Mark Donaldson has been sending out his lists of cool sites since 2003. I'd never heard of him before last week. One day I was Googling myself to see who was posting links to my newsletter, and I found his website. I guess he's mentioned my newsletter at least 3 times. I like the COOLSITES website too, but I think it could use some reformatting to make it a bit easier to read. What I really like is the content there. Mark must really read a lot of stuff on the web and he takes the best links then tells you about them."
http://freewarewiki.com/CoolSitesNewsletter
Welcome to Clif Notes Newsletter
July 26, 2009
I've got a shorter newsletter for you and I'll try to make sure I get
something to you at least once a month now. Let me know if you have
any problems at the wiki. I've changed the format a bit to make it
easier for me to write.
Latest newsletter
http://freewarewiki.com/ClifNotesNewsletter090726
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Security News and Links
I get these links and news from good sources however I do not test the programs myself because I just don't have the time. The definitive source of rogue info is Spyware Warrior- Rogue-Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
"Websense Security Labs(TM) ThreatSeeker(TM) Network has discovered that a rumor claiming that the actress Emma Watson, made famous by the Harry Potter series of movies, died on the scene of a fatal car collision is spreading rogue AV sites on the Internet. The rumor itself is spreading rapidly through social networks such as Twitter.
The attackers have targeted the Google search engine via the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning technique: when a user searches for terms related to Emma Watson's death, the fake AV sites are returned as high as the fifth result on Google.
With the recent release of the latest movie in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, malware authors are attempting to capitalize on people's curiosity.
Websense® Messaging and Websense Web Security customers are protected against this attack.
To view the details of this alert
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3450.aspx "
"Websense Security Labs(TM) ThreatSeeker(TM) Network has discovered that the Center for Defense Information (CDI) Web site has been compromised.
The site is injected with a JavaScript code that exploits the latest Microsoft Office Web Components Control vulnerability, as shown below. The vulnerability is in the Internet Explorer ActiveX control used to display Excel spreadsheets (CVE-2009-1136).
The exploit code pushes a Trojan from
hxxp://vicp.cc/. The Trojan has more than 50% detection. Note that Microsoft provides a workaround for the problem in their Fixit program.
Websense Messaging and Websense Web Security customers are protected against this attack.
To view the details of this alert
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3451.aspx "
"National Cyber Alert System Cyber Security Alert SA09-209A Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Original release date: July 28, 2009 Source: US-CERT Systems Affected * Microsoft Windows * Microsoft Internet Explorer * Microsoft Visual Studio and C++ Redistributable Package * ActiveX controls from multiple vendors Overview: Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Visual Studio. Solution: Install updates The updates to address these vulnerabilities are available on the Microsoft Update site (requires Internet Explorer). We recommend enabling Automatic Updates. Description: Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has also released updates for Microsoft Visual Studio and other software development tools. By convincing you to view a specially crafted HTML document (e.g., a Web page, HTML email message, or HTML attachment), an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of your computer. References
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-209A.html "
An I.D. Theft Story
The victim, Mark Donaldson (Hey that's me!), who suffers from insomnia wakes up at 5am, on Monday 7-27, satisfied that his sleeping medication gave him 5 decent hours of sleep. After taking care of his normal functions he checks his email. One email is from the bank that handles his credit card informing him of an online charge of $25.96 on Sunday that he never made. He immediately called the credit card company, at 6:30 am, and informed them of a possible I.D. theft. The credit card company said they would close that card's number and send him a new card along with a charge dispute form. He doesn't go online for his daily checking of websites because he has an 8am doctors appointment for a scheduled routine check-up. While at the doctor's office his wife, Dee, receives a computer phone call from the credit card company to call them back. When he returns home, at 10:30 am, he calls them and finds another charge, for over $400, was attempted after his card was suspended. The representative told him that the charge was denied and that a fraud investigator will review this and call him later in the week. He eats a late breakfast since he had fasting blood tests and decides to take a nap to prevent sleep deprivation. After a short but refreshing nap he scans his computer with Avast, SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Avast found nothing. SUPERAntiSpyware found 2 tracking cookies. One was from Fox News and they other was from a computer discounter. They were deleted. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware said that Registry Trash Keys Finder 3.7.0 was Malware.packer. Since this was a standalone/portable program installed on the secondary drive and has never been used it is improbable that it was causing a problem and may be a false positive. To be sure the program was deleted. He then goes online for his daily sites knowing that there was never a security breach on his end and some company he's done business with probably had their data stolen.
Cost to secure my credit card......Nothing
Time needed to correct problem......About 30 minutes
How it feels to be secure......Priceless
They Tried To Scam Me
I got 2 new scam emails this week. Mark
Here They Are
Top of the day to you my Good Friend.
I will like to solicit for your time, cooperation and understanding
as well as your assistance in getting the funds of £1,750,000 GBP
deposited by my Late Client Mr. Williams Cole in a Bank here in the
United Kingdom in the year 2003. The funds are to be confiscated by
the British Treasury for dormancy. You will be entitled to 45% if you
can help to receive these funds from the Bank as the Beneficiary.
Please respond to my private email: dav.freeman105 RemoveThis @yahoo.com.hk for
more information.
David S. Freeman
Sony Electronic Seasonal Award
Sony Court, Auckland Park,
P.O.Box 2001
Republic of South Africa
Sony Award Notification
In conjuction with the 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP that will be host in South Africa; We are delighted to inform you of the result of Email Promotion Award, Which is part of our promotional draws. Held twice in every year and that you were one of the THREE LUCKY WINNERS whose e-mail address where attached to Ticket-number (B9564 75604545 188) , And Lucky-numbers (BT:12052006/20) which consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of $900,000.00usdollars . (Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars Only).
Kindly visit this homepage
(http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/preldraw/2010fwc%5fmatchschedule%5f50656.pdf)
Please be informed that all participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 30,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world.
However, No tickets were sold but the email addresses of the Three Lucky Winners were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
In other to claim your $900,000.00 prize winning and to file in for your claims, contact our assigned Claim's Agent Below:
(CONTACT AGENT)
Name : Rev. Dr Joe Simon
Tel : + 27- 733665564
Email : joesimonconsultants RemoveThis @live.com
Please do remember, all winning must be claimed not later than two weeks of this notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake by the Sony Award Team.
You are advised to contact; Rev. Dr Joe Simon either by his phone number or email addresses for further information; And also provide him with the following information for disbursement of your winning fund.
Full Names:...................
Country:..................
Private Phone Number:.......... .....
Sex..........................
Age:...........
Occupation:...............
Nationality:.................
Residential Address: .........................
Congratulations once more from our members and staff, our advice is that you invest wisely with your winnings..
Your's Sincerely,
Mrs. Esther Dove.
Notification/Information Officer
N.B:
1.All claims are nullified after 10 working days from today.
2.Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.
3.Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.
4.All winners under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.
5.Please contact your claims agent by Email or Phone (Dr Joe Simon)
Principal Partner: Paull & Williamsons Solicitors
419 BAITER - Scambaiting- Stringing-along 419 Scammers for my Amusement:
http://www.419baiter.com/
Almost all Windows users vulnerable to Flash zero-day attacks:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135937/Almost_all_Windows_user...ulnerab
Department of Homeland Security Warns Users to Disable Flash:
http://go.infopackets.com/e20090724-04
Don-t become a camera theft victim - Tips, Reviews and Advice on All Things Digital - The Kim Komando Radio Show:
http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=6719
Emergency Patch Tuesday Targets Critical IE Flaw:
http://go.infopackets.com/e20090728-04
Expert- iPhone 3GS crypto is easily crackable:
http://ct.cnet-ssa.cnet.com/clicks?t=311722681-be56918137808c8d29d6177...a633af-
Facebook closes API loophole that let people see strangers' photos:
http://ct.cnet-ssa.cnet.com/clicks?t=311722684-be56918137808c8d29d6177...a633af-
Fake anti-virus programs set to rule the roost:
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=120044&pag...e=samec
FREE ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAMS:
http://askbobrankin.com/free_antivirus_programs.html
Mac flaw could let hackers get scrambled data:
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56S77Q20090730
Microsoft rushes clutch patch for 'deep' bug in Windows, third-party apps:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135918/Microsoft_rushes_clutch...tch_for
Microsoft to fix critical hole in IE:
http://ct.cnet-ssa.cnet.com/clicks?t=311722677-be56918137808c8d29d6177...a633af-
MS Will Sandbox, Not Patch, Office 2010 Vulnerabilities:
http://go.infopackets.com/e20090727-04
Researcher reveals massive 'professional thieving' botnet:
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=C82448AA-1A64-67EA-E42B0A62AFF6E62A
Researchers attack my iPhone via SMS:
http://ct.cnet-ssa.cnet.com/clicks?t=317633981-be56918137808c8d29d6177...a633af-
Troubleshooting Viruses And Worms Part I:
http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2009/07/27/troubleshooting-viruses-and-w...s-part-
Troubleshooting Viruses And Worms Part II:
http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2009/07/28/troubleshooting-viruses-and-w...s-part-
Troubleshooting Viruses And Worms Part III:
http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2009/07/29/troubleshooting-viruses-and-w...s-part-
Update. GMER 1.0.15.15011 Rootkit Detector and Remover:
http://www.gmer.net/
Update. LockCrypt 2.30:
http://www.lockcrypt.com/
Update. Norman Malware Cleaner 2009.07.30:
http://www.norman.com/support/support_tools/58732/en
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Consumer News and Links
BOGO. Ben & Jerry's is giving away a free sundae when you buy one on Mondays thru August
CiCi's Pizza is hosting an Ultimate Pizza Party on Saturday, August 8th. Just go in anytime between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. Plus, during the party anyone who orders the buffet will receive a $100 coupon book
McDonald's will be offering free 8 oz Mochas every Monday through August 3rd. This will take place between the hours of 7AM and 7PM. View offer on their website.
http://www2.mcdonalds.com/mccafe/
Just another good reason to subscribe and get this info before it expires
From
http://www.consumerworld.org/
For Many, Upgrading from WinXP to Win7 Will Not be Easy
You Need an Online "Estate" Plan
Swoopo Promises Rockbottom Prices at a Cost
TV Signal Delivery War: Cable vs. Net
Some Loopholes Exist in New Credit Card Law
How to Donate an Old Cell Phone
Arbitration Firm Quits Biz After MN-AG Sues
US Behind in Novel Cell Phone Technologies
Beware Red Flags at Debt Settlement Companies
Some Doctors Try to Gag Patients' Criticism
Contests and Promotions Flourish on Twitter
High Title Insurance Fees Getting Scrutiny
Creative Ways to Finance a New Central A/C
Poor Credit Card Companies: No One Wants to Arbitrate for Them
Hands-Free Cell Use as Dangerous as Handheld
Stephen Baldwin: I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Into Bankruptcy
NYC Goes After Unlicensed Home Contractors
These Refund Checks from the FTC are Real!
The Time is Now to Teach Financial Literacy
Frequent Flier Points Trading Programs Expensive
FDA: E-Cigarettes Contain Toxic Chemicals
Does Shell's Nitrogen Enriched Gas Work Better?
Defunct Retailers Get New Life as Net Only Stores
60 Cities Try Markets Where Everything is Free
Digital TV Coupon Deadline is This Week
Buyers Seek Condo Deposit Refunds as Prices Fall and Fine Print Error Found in Docs
Phantom Credit Card Charges Linked to Big Name Sites
Tagged.com Said to Have Accessed Users' Address Books to Send Spam
Some Cell Industry Practices Congress Should Address
Get Smarter About Hearing Aid Purchases
From: The TopSavings.com Team
http://www.TopSavings.com
Eat Free @ Arby's on Wednesdays w/ Purchase (US)
You can go to Arby's every Wednesday and get free food. Here is the
schedule:
August 5th - Free Regular Roast Beef with any soft drink purchase
August 12th - Free Roast Chicken Club with any soft drink purchase
August 19th - Free FruiTea with any sandwich purchase
August 26th - Free Regular Beef 'n Cheddar with any soft drink purchase
$45 unlimited texting and calling. Save money with this company.:
http://lmax.clarkhoward.com/t/12855355/729041/84153/0/
2 Free Tacos at Jack in the box on tuesday August 4:
http://www.freestufftimes.com/29/2-free-tacos-at-jack-in-the-box-on-tu...ay-augu
Cash for Clunkers Kicks Off. cars.gov:
http://www.cars.gov/
CiCi's Pizza- $100 Coupon Book Offer on Aug 8 at Top Savings:
http://www.topsavings.com/index.asp?ID=25390&tfsnews=yes
Consumer Reports. Latest Tests of GPS Units just released GPS navigators:
http://pressroom.consumerreports.org/pressroom/2009/07/garmin-tomtom-d...nate-co
Free Bushnell Weather Forecaster After MIR at Top Savings:
http://www.topsavings.com/index.asp?ID=25386&tfsnews=yes
Grocery & Printable Coupons - GroceryCouponsUSA.com -:
http://www.grocerycouponsusa.net/?utm_source=emaff&utm_medium=cpa&...;utm_ca
Mouse Print. FreeScore.com -- Not Exactly Free:
http://www.mouseprint.org/
National Foundation for Credit Counseling:
http://nfcc.org/
Warranty Elephant - Never forget warranties again:
https://www.warrantyelephant.com/
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Windows Secrets Newsletter
Free content posted on July 30, 2009:
INTRODUCTION
By Brian Livingston
Special report: anti-malware killbits are broken
We're pulling in young energy to dig up secrets
TOP STORY
By Susan Bradley
Install MS's out-of-cycle patches for IE, apps
Apply this Internet Explorer patch today
Apps developed using ATL may be insecure
http://WindowsSecrets.com/comp/090730
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Make My Start Page Your Home Page I have updated it on 6-25-2009 with Twitter
Try my start page and make it your home page by clicking "Click here to make my start page your default homepage".
It has the following convenient logins and links such as: Google Mail Login, Yahoo Mail Login, Windows Live MSN HotMail Login, Froogle Price Search, Google Maps, MySpace Login, Lockergnome Cool Web Links, Weather Radar, BugMeNot, E! Online, Zap2it TV Guide, Snopes, Scambusters, YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter and links to my webpages. You can also google the web or my website. It also has a link for your suggestions so you can help me make it better.
The best thing about it is it's simple, small and loads up on dialup in less than one second. Check it out today at:
http://luem42.googlepages.com/start.html
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COOLSITES 192 cool links. A lot bigger this week
I harvest what I believe to be the best links from the best sources that are safe, fun, informative, useful and just plain cool. I categorize them and edit their descriptions for clarity. I may make comments about the links but you will know because I always sign them with "Mark".
To see the full newsletter with all of the COOLSITES links please click and bookmark this link:
http://luem42.googlepages.com/coolsites.html and check it each week. Thank you. Mark.
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