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What You Need to Know about All Things PC
Publisher:           Lee Hudspeth and T.J. Lee
Editor in Chief:     Dan Butler
Contributing Editor: Al Gordon
This issue is for Thursday, December 13, 2001 - Vol. 4 No. 25
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Table of Contents

** 01. Letter from the Publisher
** 02. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) - Protecting Your Files
       (by Dan Butler)
** 03. eXPeriencing USB for Input Devices (by Al Gordon)
** 04. Evaluating Anti-virus Software for Ease of Use:
       Panda Antivirus 6.0 Platinum (by Lee Hudspeth)
** 05. Outlook 2002 Cures Counter Problem (by T.J. Lee)
** 06. Norton AntiVirus: Resolving Subscription Problems
       and Upgrading to Version 2002 - Part 2 (by Lee Hudspeth)
** 07. Featured Product - Simply Accounting (reviewed by
       Dan Butler)
** 08. Featured Tip - Solving the USB Peripheral Cable Connector
       Conundrum (by Lee Hudspeth and T.J. Lee)
** 09. Featured Web Page - The PC Technology Guide to Graphic
       Cards
** 10. Featured Drawing - Be Your Own Boss
** 11. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and
       interesting stuff


** 01. Letter from the Publisher

We have been reflecting on how much hardware prices have dropped,
and how far various PC hardware technologies have advanced, over
the course of the past few years. The technology really is
"getting easier." Definitely smaller, smarter, and cheaper. The
staff here at The Naked PC enjoy the privilege of being along
with you for the ride.

In this issue Dan continues his series on using PGP encryption as
a tool in your daily PC work, here focusing on how to keep files
on your system encrypted until you need them. Al examines the
notion that real ease of use with USB--for Wintel PCs--is finally
delivered in the form of Windows XP. Jim finds a cure for an
ailment that afflicts Microsoft Outlook users who remotely
connect to an Exchange Server, in regards to offline mode and a
long, tedious wait as Outlook counts your inbox messages. Lee
offers new insights about his recent problems with his Norton
AntiVirus subscription and an upgrade, and a series of "ease of
use" categories to use when evaluating an anti-virus package.

We're pleased to announce that we now accept the Discover credit
card in our electronic store TheNakedPCStore.com (along with
American Express, MasterCard, VISA, PayPal, personal checks, and
Money Orders). During this busy shopping season, remember that we
have prepared an extensive FAQ that can help you answer questions
about our store's Shopping Cart. You can study the FAQ here:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?publet1

CONGRATULATIONS to Eddie S. and Lisa S., winners of The Naked PC
"Holiday Season Kickoff" drawing. They have each won a free
Photon II Micro-Light in the color of their choice. Be sure to
check out this issue's "Be Your Own Boss" drawing, it's a snap to
enter!

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** 02. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) - Protecting Your Files
       (by Dan Butler)

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) has proven to be a versatile tool in
any privacy toolkit. Past articles of this series taught you how
to hide your passwords in plain sight, send messages encrypted,
and send encrypted files to someone who doesn't have PGP. A handy
toolkit for privacy, when you'll use it.

I wanted to mention a couple of helpful tips sent in by fellow
security-conscious readers of The Naked PC. First, instead of
saving a copy of what you are encrypting to a text file, several
of you reminded me it's just as easy to add your PGP key to the
list of recipients. Now both you and your friend will have
encrypted copies of the message. Easy and handy. In fact, PGP has
an option to "Always encrypt to default key". With this option
checked you'll always be able to decrypt anything you've
encrypted to someone else, just supply your private key.

This go-round you'll learn how to keep files on your system
encrypted until you need them. Any of the following techniques
work for leaving files on your system or sending them to someone
else.

Let's say you have a file you want to keep away from prying eyes.
Open Explorer and file your file. Right-click on the file choose
PGP / Encrypt & Sign. The PGPshell Key Selection Dialog will pop-
up. Look in the bottom right corner. I usually check the "Wipe
Original" option which removes the original from your hard drive
after creating the encrypted file.

----- Note -----
This is a wipe of the file and not a delete. You won't be
recovering the file from your Recycle Bin or with an Undelete
tool.
----------------

The other options you have are "Text Output" and "Conventional
Encryption". Text Output creates an encrypted file like what you
see in an encrypted email. Conventional Encryption lets you
supply a passphrase just for this file. Share the passphrase with
your friend and they can open the file. Check the "Self
Decrypting Archive" box if it is available and your friend won't
even need PGP to open the file.

When you Encrypt a text file you'll have the "Secure Viewer"
option. When the file is opened it will be displayed in PGP's
"Secure Viewer" with an option to use a Tempest attack prevention
font. What? From the help file: "Tempest: An appropriately
instrumented van can park near your office and remotely pick up
all of your keystrokes and messages displayed on your computer
video screen." As I said before, if you have to worry about this
you've got bigger problems on your hands than this article will
solve. Still, you may wish to use the Secure Viewer if you are
sharing information you don't want others to leave around on
their hard drive or if you have to worry about temporary files
being created by other software programs.

Work through the above techniques. Choose what works best for
you. You'll feel better just knowing you can encrypt things when
you need to, and get to them later.

If you missed earlier segments of this series, point your browser
here:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?dan1

You can reach Dan Butler at:
mailto:danbutler@TheNakedPC.com


** 03. eXPeriencing USB for Input Devices (by Al Gordon)

We like to think of ourselves at The Naked PC as being on the
leading edge of computing. But when it comes to keyboards and
pointing devices, we tend to be traditionalists: Hey, if we
weren't meant to use PS/2 ports, why are there two of them on
every PC?

But the hardware world has been moving aggressively toward using
USB for these connections and with the advent of Windows XP, we
have run out of reasons to avoid giving USB a try. XP does two
things of importance here:

First, USB is a plug-and-play technology and XP has made the
process of adding peripherals much less of a--to use the familiar
computing joke--"plug and pray" proposition. Plug in a new
hardware item, such as a new mouse, and Windows XP will install
it fairly automatically via a wizard. In contrast, you need to
turn off your PC before you can swap a PS/2 device.

Second, XP it makes it exceptionally easy to switch users and
their personal settings. A new user now can log on without the
current user logging off. Accordingly, the new user can take
advantage of USB to swap to his or her preferred input devices as
well.

And there are a LOT of input devices from which to choose.
Microsoft--which supplied test examples of its hardware for this
article--alone has a staggering variety: five keyboards (with a
sixth on the way), 11 pointing devices (nine mice and two
trackballs), and 11 game controllers (including three joysticks
and two racing wheels).

For more details on Microsoft hardware, please see my
supplemental page:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?al1

In my household at least, this is not some idle concern.

I mouse left-handed and use the Microsoft Natural Keyboard, a
"wave" design. My wife prefers a trackball (she currently is
testing the Microsoft Trackball Explorer) and a conventional
rectangular keyboard such as Microsoft's Internet Keyboard Pro.
And we have trouble with each other's hardware choices. Inputting
becomes a habit and using unfamiliar components can easily throw
you off. Your fingers search for a key while touch-typing and you
repeatedly hit the wrong one. Manipulating a trackball seems
weird if you are used to a mouse.

Natural Keyboard Pro:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?al2

Intellimouse Explorer:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?al3

USB plug-and-play is also importing in gaming. After all, you
aren't going to get very far in a "shooter" game if you have a
racing steering wheel hooked up to the PC. Nor do you want to be
using a mere game controller when your flight sim begs for a
joystick. When you switch from one game to another, you can
switch gaming hardware as well.

While XP will not support as many games as Win9x, it will run
most of the ones you are likely to have on your system. And XP
Professional has the same game support, which Windows 2000 did
not. (Yes, IT people, Microsoft does provide administrative tools
so you can prevent your corporate network from being overwhelmed
by "Quake" tournaments.)

Let me hasten to add that perfection and Windows is a combination
we are not likely to witness in our lifetimes. Even under XP, USB
connections sometimes misfire--your system will periodically
refuse to recognize a device. But is a lot more painless than it
used to be, and as a result, the pluses now outweigh the
negatives.

You can reach Al Gordon at:
mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com


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** 04. Evaluating Anti-virus Software for Ease of Use:
       Panda Antivirus 6.0 Platinum (by Lee Hudspeth)

I wrote about my recent daily update subscription problems with
Symantec's Norton AntiVirus in our previous issue.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?lee1

Since then, I've come up with what I consider to be the most
important "where the rubber meets the road" aspects of anti-virus
package ease of use for folks like you and me trying to sandbag
against the rising tide of malware assaults. It boils down to
this: we trust anti-virus software vendors to be facile at
intercepting the old--and the newest--threats, but how do their
products fair when installing, upgrading, and especially
maintaining their engines and virus definition files? That's the
focus of this article, and I evaluate these factors for Panda
Antivirus 6.0 Platinum ("PAV 6.0").

* Installation time? 2 HOURS 25 MINUTES. Criteria: This involves
a full install plus these tasks: register; run an "update cycle"
after install; create and test a rescue disk set; scan the entire
system for viruses after install; schedule weekly scans; and
schedule daily updates.

* Easy to automatically register on-line during installation?
(range: very easy, easy, average, difficult, very difficult) NOT
POSSIBLE. PAV 6.0's box included a sheet of paper that explained
(I'm paraphrasing), "We've changed our registration process to be
different from what's on the CD. When the installer asks you to
register, say no, finish the install, then register manually
online." The installer never asked if I wanted to register, so I
had to register manually on the Web site anyway. Also, as part of
the installation process, PAV 6.0 didn't automatically attempt to
update itself, perhaps due to my then unregistered status. When I
attempted to register using Internet Explorer v5.0 SP2, it
generated a debug message; this I eventually fixed by shutting
down the browser and trying again.

Panda staff tell me that when you buy the product online in the
electronic download format, you must register at that time and
will receive your user id and password by email within two hours
or less. When I registered a physical CD version manually on the
Web site I received my user id and password six hours later. This
manual registration process is confusing and inconvenient; as you
know, I believe an anti-virus program should provide automated,
online, and virtually instantaneous registration.

* Easy to automatically connect for updates? DIFFICULT. The
"Update time" field in which you tell PAV 6.0 when to run a daily
automatic update appears to have no AM/PM selector, and since it
isn't in military time, at first glance you can't tell if it's AM
or PM. Turns out that the control is too narrow, thereby hiding
the AM/PM sub-field. Tip: to see/ change the sub-field, click
into the "Update time" field and right-arrow to access it.

There's no UI for displaying when your subscription expires. The
UI does tell you how current your virus definition files are, but
in a counter-intuitive way. In the main screen's lower left
corner is a green field and a number in the format "x days" where
x represents the number of days that have elapsed since those
files were updated; thus, a 0 is good.

* Easy to contact technical support about bugs? UNKNOWN. I'm
waiting to receive an email response on an inquiry I posted just
before this issue went to press; so this is an open item. Tip:
for domestic U.S. customers, there are two different email
addresses you can write to, either techsupport@pandasecurity.com
or techsupport.usa@pandasoftware.com. My test phone call to
Panda's non-toll-free technical support phone on a weekday mid-
morning resulted in a 20 minute wait that could have gone longer,
but I didn't hang around to find out.

Tip: To see a list of PAV 6.0 FAQs, visit Panda's U.S.-based Web
site at http://www.pandasecurity.com, click on the mid-page link
"Panda Antivirus Platinum", then click the "FAQs" button.

* Easy to contact technical support about subscription problems?
SEE ABOVE.

* Is the CD bootable into a set of recovery tools? NO.

* Easy to configure overall? AVERAGE. Criteria: See my article on
optimal anti-virus settings, written so its checklist can be used
with any anti-virus package.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?lee5

* How easy is it to view the package's virus list? VERY EASY (UI:
click the "Virus List" button).

* How does it handle the EICAR standard anti-virus test file?
PASSES ALL. Criteria: See my article on how to safely test your
anti-virus package with the EICAR test file.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?lee6

In summary, Panda Antivirus 6.0 Platinum's user interface is less
polished than competitor Norton's product, but it certainly can
protect your system from malware. The key to your success with
any anti-virus vendor's product is to use it, and use it
aggressively.

To see my evaluation of these anti-virus products--and more to
come in future issues--in a table format, refer to my
supplemental page:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?lee2

Here's where to buy a copy of Panda Antivirus 6.0 Platinum:
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You can reach Lee Hudspeth at:
mailto:LeeHudspeth@TheNakedPC.com


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** 05. Outlook 2002 Cures Counter Problem (by T.J. Lee)

If you use Microsoft Outlook and remotely connect to an Exchange
server, you should be aware that Outlook XP/2002 fixes an
annoying glitch that was driving one of my clients bonkers.
Granted that this annoyance is not going to affect everyone. Here
goes... when you're using Outlook in offline mode and then
connect to Exchange Server, Outlook 2000 displays a dialog box
that counts through your Inbox messages, checking to see which
ones are new and need to be updated to your remote machine. This
is not usually a big deal unless you have a lot of messages in
your Inbox. If there are a large number of messages you find
yourself staring at a counter that slowly ticks though the entire
message count. On a slow 56 Kbps dial-up connection it can
absolutely painful.

The good news is that Outlook XP/2002 does away with this counter
dialog and replaces it with a new dialog box. This new dialog is
still annoying in that it does not tell you anything very useful,
but it does not count through your entire message count; this
latter feature saved my client a substantial amount of time.

If you're suffering with this problem you might look at upgrading
to Office XP on the remote client workstation/laptop PC(s).

You can reach T.J. Lee at:
A HREF="mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com">mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com


** 06. Norton AntiVirus: Resolving Subscription Problems
       and Upgrading to Version 2002 - Part 2 (by Lee Hudspeth)

The public relations folks in Symantec's AntiVirus product group
examined the questions and concerns I expressed in my previous
article on this subject.

Heather Haas, Symantec Public Relations Specialist, reports that
the technical support phone number busy signal I encountered
repeatedly was "primarily as a result of a large number of OEM
customers all due for renewal at the same time and strong
interest in our recently launched 2002 product line. The Sircam
and Nimda virus outbreaks also contributed to the very high
number of calls we received. We acknowledge that as a result of
the high volume of calls, customers experienced long wait times
to speak with customer service agents... To correct this,
Symantec recently hired more than 50 new customer service agents.
We have been able to significantly reduce the average waiting
time for customer service... and we are continuing to train staff
in order to make that number go even lower." When I last tested
the phone number on December 11th, it rang through properly.

I have been put in contact with a technical support
representative who will study my report that NAV 2002 was unable
to register automatically online while installing, and unable to
do so afterwards via a built-in registration feature (I was only
able to register manually on the Symantec Web site). More on this
in a future article. Haas acknowledged that they would take into
consideration for a future release my suggestion to give greater
prominence to instructions to the customer to remove the CD
before restarting the PC at the end of the installation.

I want to thank the several hundred TNPCers who took the time to
email me about your NAV problems, and, in some cases, your kudos
for NAV. Although I cannot answer all of your emails
individually, I have read each one and am in the process of
seeing how the individual issues you raised map out in summary
form. Stay tuned. Your opinion counts!

You can reach Lee Hudspeth at:
mailto:LeeHudspeth@TheNakedPC.com


** 07. Featured Product - Simply Accounting (reviewed by
       Dan Butler)

Do you run a small business? Maybe you are starting a business
and want to save some bucks? ACCPAC, makers of Simply Accounting,
is giving their software away. The catch? It's a 310 megabyte
download. Or you can pay $9.95 and they ship you a CD-ROM and
include a training CD as well. Amazon currently lists the same
software for $95. The other catch is that this offer is only
available in the U.S.

If you already use QuickBooks or some other accounting software,
you should probably stick with that. Otherwise this offer would
be a convenient, economical way to try some accounting software.
It wasn't stated on the Web site, but future updates probably
aren't free. Find out more here:

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** 08. Featured Tip - Solving the USB Peripheral Cable Connector
       Conundrum (by Lee Hudspeth and T.J. Lee)

When dealing with USB peripheral cables, here are some easy rules
to follow to avoid getting confused. A standard USB cable has an
A-male connector at one end and a B-male connector at the other.
The A-male connector plugs into the host PC's USB port or a hub's
port. The B-male connector plugs into the peripheral device
itself. (On many light-weight USB peripherals, the cable is
molded directly into the peripheral's case/shell. This prevents
signal degradation and plug-in hassles, and eliminates the port
connection as a point of failure.) The A-male and the B-male
connectors are shaped differently to avoid improper connections,
and you can see a photo of each connector here:

http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?ftip


** 09. Featured Web Page - The PC Technology Guide to Graphic
       Cards

Dave Anderson's PC Technology Guide site offers a wide assortment
of articles and reviews on various aspects of PC technology. One
especially well-organized section, comprised of two very
extensive Web pages, caught our eye, and covers
graphics/multimedia cards. The author walks you through the
material in a logical order. These pages cover resolution; color
depth; dithering; the components of a graphics card (graphics
processor, video memory, RAMDAC, and driver software); digital
cards; 3D; various graphics APIs like DirectX, Direct3D and
others; and more. Each term and idea is explained in clear
writing style, and plenty of tables and figures supplement the
text.

http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?fsite


** 10. Featured Drawing - Be Your Own Boss

If you've never entered a The Naked PC drawing here's how it
works. You go to a Web page on our site, answer one survey
question (something like "Have you thought about running your own
business on or off the Internet?"), and enter your email address.

To encourage readers to participate in the survey, we have a
drawing from the email addresses of those who participate in each
survey and we give away something really cool. Now, obviously we
already have your email address or you wouldn't be reading this,
but this drawing for prizes will only include those folks who
answer this issue's question (entering a prior drawing doesn't
count for this one).

We'll only use the email addresses we collect for the purpose of
notifying who won the prize, nothing else. On December 19th we'll
pick one entered name at random. The winner gets our "Product
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This package (extensive flowchart, three videotapes, and
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How easy is that?

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** 11. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and
       interesting stuff

*-* Game box numbers war... Microsoft Xbox shipments said likely
to be 1.4 million by year-end. Nintendo GameCube console domestic
shipments will purportedly be 1.3 million for the same period.
Sales figures due later this week, and the winner will be?
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/425/tr.cgi?news1

*-* Microsoft is out of stock on Windows XP family licenses.
Basically, Microsoft product management underestimated initial
demand for the licenses, which work like this: you buy a license
to use your existing Windows XP CD to install it on another PC
for 10% less than the original cost.
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*-* PC World has extensive, well-organized coverage of the
Windows XP "patch parade," complete with a "Top Windows XP
Problems and Solutions" chart.
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Get more Newsworthy bits on The Naked PC Web site:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/newsworthy/

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