MSBlaster Variant Author Arrested SoBig Part of Spammers Counter Attack GPS Navigation System, 3rd Generation Portable Battery Summary Microsoft Forced to Change Internet Explorer Do Not Call List Update US Sponsors Anonymiser for Iran MailBag Stratford News
Patent 5,838,906 covering mechanism for embedding objects within distributed hypermedia documents with a control path to objects implementation to support user interaction with the object. Related to what Microsoft calls ActiveX (formerly Object Linking and Embedding OLE)
Allows Iranian IP address to bypass site filters (it does block porn sites)
Same technology was used for Iraq
IP address is changed daily as the site filter is updated by Iran
A bill that passed the US House of Representatives last month would create an Office of Global Internet Freedom that have up to $50 million dollars per year to help citizens of foreign repressive governments skirt Internet censorship
MailBag
Are machines from computers stores as good as dealer machines (John O?Master)
What websites provide free firewalls (Emma Gilliard)
Retrieve data from old harddrive (Dan Benson)
Can I use two firewalls (Dick St. Clair)
New IT job, what certifications do I need? (James Young)
Go to Control Panel, Network Services, Microsoft Network services
How can I get a large partition using FAT32 for WindowsXP
Stratford News
Dates to Remember
Next Start September 8th, 2003
Next Seminar September 25th, 2003 (Trends in Wireless Technology)