NEWS NOTES - MARCH 27, 2003


ON THE WAY HOME

Pam's girlfriend, Karen, flew in Tuesday night and the three of us left Wednesday, heading to Port Aransas, near Corpus Christie. The motorhome brakes hung up and I am taking it in to the Ford garage tomorrow. Great start.

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HIGH SPEED INTERNET AT RV PARK

We are staying at Pioneer Park in Port Aransas, TX, and I am using wireless internet service. No need to get a phone line, and just $2.50 per day or $12 a week. Great for doing a little surfing on the road. ‘The Wireless Web' is also at three parks around San Antonio.

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NEW MANAGER AT FUNNSUN?

Saw Linda, the former manager, moving out, but no word of who it is. Just have to wait and see who moves into H-158.

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NEW FUNNSUN MAIL LADY

Madeline Adams took my forwarding instructions and wished us a safe return.

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NEW MAIL LADY

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NEW ACTIVITY DIRECTOR

Heard the new activity director, Dana, was introduced at coffee. No picture yet. Anyone have a new camera (Bruce)?

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ANTI-VIRUS ENTRIES TO YOUR ADDRESS BOOK DON'T WORK

While not really false, the instructions do not really help you prevent infections and could fool you into being careless. For the few worms that remote control your Outlook application, this would tell you that you had already spammed the world with who knows how many worm infected e-mails. For the current crop of worms that spread via e-mail, which contain their own internal mailer, this would do nothing. Your time would be much better spent installing a good antivirus program and keeping it updated.

A variant of this says to use AAAAAAA for the user's name and WormAlert@somewhere.com as the address. Unfortunately, somewhere.com is a real domain and now they are getting hammered by every infected machine that uses this "Fix!" I'm sure they would like it to stop.

Remember, don't open attachments that you were not expecting to receive, even those that appear to have been sent by a friend. Verify them first with the friend before opening them.

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