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Against Online Scams This Holiday Season
Online scams
tend to rise during the holiday season as criminals take advantage of people
being busier and in a more festive, trusting mood. Two areas of particular
concern are fraudulent holiday e-cards and phony e-commerce sites.
Keep
in mind that a wholesome-looking e-card, once clicked or downloaded, might
actually be a spyware installer or a computer virus. The holiday greeting could
also be a phishing attack intent on obtaining your Social Security number,
credit card data, or brokerage account information. To help avoid e-card
troubles, take the same precautions as with any e-mail you receive:
- Never
download or click on anything from any unknown source.
- Use
a firewall.
- Use
antivirus and antispyware software and keep it up to date.
- Don't
accept an end-user agreement without reading the fine print first.
When
doing holiday shopping online, help protect yourself with these guidelines:
- Purchase
items through well-known retailers you can contact via phone if necessary.
- Check
for a small lock icon at the bottom corner of your browser window when making a
purchase. This indicates a secure transaction.
- Check
bank and credit card statements frequently for suspicious transactions.
- Do
not click on links to websites embedded in e-mails. These links can direct you
to phony e-commerce sites.
Happy
Thanksgiving -
From The Scatter Creek InfoNet Family
At this time of Thanksgiving, we would like to express to you our sincere appreciation for your business. We are truly thankful and extend to you our best wishes for a happy and healthy Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season.
Ask The Help
Desk - Why Are My
Most Recent E-mail Messages Not Listed First?
Question: My Outlook Express
normally lists the e-mail messages in my inbox in descending order from the most
current to the oldest. Now, however, the e-mail messages in my inbox are listed
in alphabetical order rather than by the date I received them. This is
frustrating because now I have to scroll through my entire list of e-mail
messages in order to find the most recent unread messages. What is going
on?
Answer: Normally, Outlook Express as well as other e-mail
software programs sort both incoming and sent e-mail messages by date. The most
recently received e-mails are listed at the top of your "Inbox" message pane.
The most recently sent e-mails are listed at the top of your "Sent Items" pane.
It appears that you may have inadvertently clicked on the "Subject" column
located along the top of your list of messages causing them to be sorted
alphabetically by subject rather than by date. If you look to the right of the
word "Subject," you will see a small arrow pointing either up or down indicating
that the message list is sorted by subject. If this is the case, simply click
your cursor arrow on the "Received" column. Your e-mail messages will now be
listed in chronological order with the newest shown at the top and the oldest at
the bottom. The little arrow should now be next to the word "Received" instead
of "Subject." This works with messages in your "Sent Items" folder, too. Click
on the "Sent" column to sort by the date sent. Actually, you can sort messages
in any folder simply by clicking on its column heading; you can reverse the
order by clicking on the heading a second time. This can be a handy feature as
long as it's something you intended to do.
Great Sites To Check
Out This Month
Funny
Honey
http://www.beemovie.com - Everybody's
buzzing about Bee Movie, an animated comedy created by Jerry Seinfeld
that flies into theaters this month. Seinfeld provides the voice for a bee
that's recently graduated from college and ventures outside the hive for the
first time, meeting Vanessa the florist (Renée Zellweger). Visit the site to
watch the clever trailers and TV spots, and to download recipes from the
National Honey Board. Rated PG.
Medicine Cabinet Makeover
http://www.webmd.com/video/medicine-cabinet-makeover -
Recent news reports about the risks of cold medicines for children under six
serve as reminders to be mindful of what's in our medicine cabinet. WebMD
includes a Medicine Cabinet Makeover video on their site, which walks you
through the drug store shelves to help you stock the right over-the-counter
remedies. You'll also find safety guidelines for kids and medicine — just in
time for cold and flu season.
Organize Your Stuff
http://www.mythings.com - Before you get new
stuff this holiday season, get a better handle on the stuff you already own.
MyThings is a global online registry to help you organize and manage your
belongings. You create a list of items on your MyThings Portfolio, then the site
will give you free valuation and market estimator services, help you find
warranties and owners manuals, and even simplify the process of selling,
recycling, or donating items you no longer want.
Talking Turkey
http://www.eatturkey.com/consumer/thanks.html -
Whether it's your first year hosting Thanksgiving dinner or you're looking for
fresh ideas, check out this site. It covers all things turkey including
purchasing, thawing, preparing, seasoning, roasting, frying, smoking, grilling,
stuffing, carving, and storing. And since man cannot live on turkey alone,
recipes for appetizers, side dishes, and desserts are also on the
menu.
America's Walking
http://www.pbs.org/americaswalking/index.html -
To get fit, sometimes you just need to put one foot in front of the other.
America's Walking is a new fitness, travel, and lifestyle series
premiering on PBS stations nationwide. It's hosted by Mark Fenton, a leading
expert on walking and pedestrian issues, and spotlights different walking
destinations each week. The site features quizzes to help you kick off a walking
program, discover your fitness personality, and find out if your community is
pedestrian-friendly. There are also links to walking clubs and events across the
country.
Short
Tutorial - Printing Your Address Book For
Holiday Card Reference
More and
more people are using their e-mail program's electronic Address Book in place of
the traditional paper version. After all, this software makes it so much easier
to update the addresses of friends and relatives as they move. When it's time to
do holiday cards, however, you may find it useful to have a hard copy of this
information to refer to as you address envelopes. It's also a handy place to
keep track of sent and received cards.
To print a copy of your e-mail
program's Address Book, follow these steps:
Printing Your Address
Book When Using Outlook Express 6 In Windows XP Home Edition
- With
Outlook Express open, click your cursor arrow on the "Addresses" icon on the
Outlook Express toolbar. The "Address Book" for the current identity (probably
the Main Identity) will appear.
- Sort
your list the way you want it to print by clicking on the "View" menu, dropping
down to "Sort By," and then choosing an option or options from the "Sort By"
submenu.
- You
can also select specific contacts for printing by either pressing the "Shift" or
"Ctrl" keys and simultaneously clicking on the listed contacts.
- If
you want to print all of the contacts, make no selection.
- Click
on the "File" menu. Drop down to and select "Print" from the drop-down menu.
- The
"Print" dialog window will appear. Look for the "Print Style" area and select
either "Memo" which will print all data entered for the selected contacts,
"Business Card" which will print the names, company names, e-mail addresses, and
phone numbers of the selected contacts, or "Phone List" which will print the
selected contacts' phone numbers.
- Enter
the "Number of copies" in the "Copies" area.
- Click
the "Print" button.
Printing
Your Address Book When Using Thunderbird 1.5 On Mac OS X Or Windows XP Home
Edition
In Thunderbird, you can only print out the entire Address Book with very
few options. However, there's nothing to say that you can't make a second
Address Book just for printing a portion of the original.
- Click
your cursor arrow on the "Address Book" icon located on the Thunderbird toolbar.
The "Address Book" window will appear.
- Go
to "File" on the Thunderbird menu bar and drop down to "New" from the resulting
drop-down menu. Select "Address Book" from the submenu.
- A
dialog box will appear with an empty field for your new address book's name.
Type an appropriate name and click "OK." You will see your new address book
listed in the "Address Books" pane.
- To
add contacts to your new address book, click on the name of the original Address
Book. You will see the contacts listed in the upper right hand pane of the
"Address Book" window.
- Click
on the names you want to print and drag them on to the Address Book you just
created. This will add them to it.
- Click
on the name of the new Address Book. A list of contacts that you just added will
appear in the upper right hand pane of the "Address Book" window.
- To
print the Address Book, go to the "File" menu and select "Print Address Book..."
from the resulting drop-down menu.
- When
the "Print" dialog box appears, click the "Print" button.
Printing
Your Address Book When Using Mail.app 2, Address Book 4.0.4, and Mac OS X
10.4.9
Mail.app for the Macintosh uses a separate program to handle contacts
called "Address Book."
- Launch
the "Address Book" program.
- Click
on the "All" icon in the "Group" column and the entire contents of the "Address
Book" will be listed in the "Name" column.
- Select
all of the listed contacts or just some of them by either pressing the "Shift"
or "command" keys and simultaneously clicking on specific contacts. Your
selected contacts will be highlighted.
- Click
on the "File" menu and select "Print" from the resulting drop-down menu. The
"Print" dialog box will appear.
- This
is where the real fun begins. Look for the "Style" button and click on it. You
can choose from four options. "Mailing Labels," "Envelopes," "Lists," or "Pocket
Address Book." Select the one you want by clicking on it.
- If
you chose "Mailing Labels," you can select from numerous Avery labels, DYMO
labels, or custom label options under the "Layout" tab.
- Under
the "Label" tab, you can print the listed contacts in either "Alphabetical
Order" or "Postal Code Order." You can print the country as part of the address
and you can change the font and font color.
- If
you choose "Envelopes," you can choose from "International," "North American,"
and "Japanese" envelopes. You can choose either your home address or work
address as your return address. You can also choose from either a vertical or
horizontal envelope orientation.
- If
you chose "Lists," you can include the fields you want printed. You can also
choose your font size and paper orientation.
- When
you’ve made all of your desired choices, click "Print."
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