The New Blog Direction

I have for the most part Determined the direction that I want this blog site to take and decided to share it as a way to further inform you the reader of this blog. First and formost after much pondering and scribbles; I have determined that certain helpfull information is only readily available to those whom are willing to either devote much time searching online, or those who are willing to pay for it's deliverance.

Boy that is a mouthfull, What I really mean is that when I look for an answer it easy to find if I pay for it, or if much time is consumed searching for it. So I have decided that this site is going to primarily concern a sort of distribution of knowledge that I have found usefull.

The previous entry was just the tip of the iceburg so here we go.


Safer Email:
Recently we had a few emails concerning the need for Service pack 2 with Windows XP and Internet Explorer. Here is what I found out after some research;

• 1st concern is to insure that you have installed the Service pack 2 onto your computer if you havn't go get it at Microsoft.com right now.

• SP2 also brings a welcome addition to Outlook express's security options: The ability to convert HTML messages to plain text. Recieving emails formated in html is risky because Outlook Express processes header scripts in the html content, which means that malicious script is automatically executed. You can stop this from happening with SP2 installed by navigating to TOOLS>OPTIONS>READ and checking the box marked "Read all messages in plain text" If you are useing Outlook, you can do the same by navigating to TOOLS>OPTIONS>SECURITY>ZONE SETTINGS.

• We all hate those pesky pop ups and SP2 comes with an effective popup blocker for IE it is automatically enabled at installation. However if you wish to disable it for certain sites or turn it off at will; open the Internet Options settings window and and you can setup audio cues when a popup is blocked, choose between three levels of security, or set up trusted sites to be allowed the use of popup's.