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November 10, 1999

According to all the experts in the computer industry, a myriad of viruses will occur on January 1, 2000. It will be your responsibility to insure the safety of your personal computers. Also, help your at work management by printing this article out for them to read.

Please, this is not a hoax; there are a lot of sick people out there that take a perverse pleasure out of making our computing experience miserable. Shawn, our resident expert on Virus’s will follow this news blurb with a probable scenario on how the Y2k Virus’s will attack your computer/networks and an educated guess on what they will be

This news Blurb was issued, November 3, 1999.

Microsoft announced yesterday it is working with several leading antivirus firms to prepare small and midsize businesses and consumers for the year 2000 by providing free antivirus software.

The nine antivirus vendors that have partnered with Microsoft support more than 20 languages and include Central Command, Computer Associates, Data Fellows, Network Associates, Norman ASA, Panda Software, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micros. All will offer free antivirus software, downloadable from their individual sites and from Microsoft's year 2000 site, for a trial period through Dec. 31st. Once downloaded, the software will be functional for 90 days.

Microsoft advises customers to install the antivirus software and check the manufacturers' Web sites periodically for updated virus signature files. These files may change daily in response to new viruses.

Microsoft has harbored a reputation for being remiss when it comes to security issues, but Laura DiDio, senior analyst with Giga Information Group, says that is changing. "Microsoft in the past year has become a thousand times more proactive regarding security issues," she says. Because viruses are increasingly better developed and more damaging, DiDio says it's smart for the company to partner with best-of-breed vendors. - Tischelle George

For more IT news, see InformationWeek Online at
http://www.informationweek.com

November 9, 1999

Lately and continually, all we keep hearing from our customers is how dissatisfied they are with their Internet Service Provider (ISP). An ISP is anyone you use to get on to the Internet such as AOL, MSN, AT&T World Wide Services, your local "My link is yours"-small town or big town provider. Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, etc are known as Browsers.

Your local phone company may be a major culprit in poor connections to your local or worldwide ISP. We have heard from many ISP's that the phone companies are throttling back, down---whatever--- their bandwidth causing you, their customers bad connections; we can't prove this, the phone companies swear they would never do this --- so, I'm sure we should believe this (yeah, that's the ticket).

The one true tip off your ISP is falling down on their service to you is busy signals and cutoffs while your online.

So, if you're ticked off, disenchanted or just plain angry and your not going to take it anymore try the following services via the Web to find yourself another ISP.

Want To Find Other ISP's In Your Area?

Two of the best search engines for locating ISPs

www.isps.com

http://www.thedirectory.org/

and you can find many more (for ISP's anywhere in the world) via this metasearch:

http://www.askjeeves.com/main/askJeeves.asp?ask=listings+of+isps