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The Naked PC - http://www.TheNakedPC.com 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, April 25, 2002 - Vol. 5 No. 09 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Fighting Spam: Part 4 (by Dan Butler) ** 03. Low Tech Solutions to High Tech Problems - System Journals (by T.J. Lee) ** 04. Acrobat Shows Agility (by Al Gordon) ** 05. Mining for Data Gold Using Microsoft Excel (by Lee Hudspeth) ** 06. Featured Products -- Pop-Up Stopper and Norton Internet Security 2002 (reviewed by Al Gordon) ** 07. Featured Drawing - Email Viruses Haunting You? ** 08. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 01. Letter from the Publisher Hello everyone. A quick bit of advice for Norton Antivirus 2002 users... This Tuesday, Lee was reading about the Klez virus/worm and just as a precaution decided to check the latest date of his Norton Antivirus 2002 definition files. The date was current but he did a LiveUpdate anyway. Well, well, well, Norton's LiveUpdate cycle took off and in the end he counted three reboots of his PC. So, there are some *significant* updates available to both your NAV 2002 software and your definition files so if you use this product, run an update: shut down all other running applications, click NAV's LiveUpdate button, and keep running LiveUpdate until it reports there are no more updates available. If you're running a different anti-virus package, this might be a good day to force a manual update/refresh. This issue we are giving away another of our Photon Micro- Lights. The question this issue is, "Have email viruses affected you?" It's fun and simple to enter, see the related Featured Drawing article. Today's menu offers a wide assortment of useful technologies and ideas... In his popular series on the unpopular spam, Dan explains how spammers obscure their address and why you get spam even though it is not addressed to you. Jim recommends you keep a journal of all changes to your PC (or server); this little black book will save you untold troubleshooting heartache. Al delves into the details of Adobe Acrobat as a powerful technology for distributing documents just the way you want them. Lee discusses Excel's many robust and indispensable features for digging for gold, data gold that is. Reader support is what keeps The Naked PC free. To this end you can help us by passing a copy on to co-workers and friends (no spam please). We even make it easy to refer people to The Naked PC... check out our Refer page: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/refer/ +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ >> "How Many Ways Will You Use These Amazing Devices?" 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But that's really all there is to it. The fact is that it isn't that hard to fake an email. One more reason to use something like PGP to make your important email verifiable. There is a link to my PGP series on the page above as well. The frequent use of forged addresses or even forged email headers makes it difficult to trace where spam originates from. Notice I didn't say impossible. You can get caught up in all this and spend a great deal of time tracking down spammers. Is that a productive use of your time? Only you can decide that. Personally I'd rather play with my kids. A common tactic spammers use is to sign up for a throw-away account at Yahoo!, Hotmail, or some other free email service. Then they send their spam using that address. The key is this-- they never check the account. The mail just accumulates until the account is closed due to spam complaints. The spammer opens another account and the process continues. Or they just put a randomly chosen Yahoo! address as the "From" address and don't worry about the rest. You can usually spot a spam that uses fake headers. Somewhere in the email they will give a different address for you to respond to. Or a phone number to call for their offer. If the address inside the mail and the "From" address are from different domains, there's a good chance that the headers are forged. Think about these two techniques and you'll realize why responding to the emails or even "bouncing" the mail as undeliverable is a shot in the dark at best. Some software will try to create proper bounces for you but you are relying on the spammers to deal with your mail properly. And we know they don't do that. If the spammer forged the "From" address, responding to the email does no good. The emails will be ignored. They are just looking for orders that come to the contact information in the body of the email. If they are using the responses to build a "live list" the headers still may be forged. The information on how to supposedly remove yourself from their list may be the only accurate address in the email. And you already know that responding doesn't always remove you anyway. How come you don't see your address on mail sent to you? The primary reason is the use of Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) mail. Most modern mail readers have this feature and it is useful when you don't want to expose the addresses of all the people you are emailing. If you are going to forward the latest email joke to fifty of your closest friends at least use the BCC feature of your email to hide their addresses. See our previous article on how not doing so could land your friends on spam lists. Better yet, think twice before you forward that joke around. Next time I'll tell you how spammers can get your email address without you responding to an email. 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Lee) In this installment I thought I'd discuss a simple device that helps both end users and corporate IT staff more effectively capture information to facilitate troubleshooting. The lowly "system journal." A system journal is nothing more than a notebook in which you record information. For example, a server room should have an Event Log book and every time someone performs any action on one of the servers the date, time, initials of the technician, and a description of what was done should be recorded. The reason is simple, when something goes wrong it can usually be traced back to a recent change made to the system. But you'd be surprised how hard it is to figure out who made what change to which server/application/service and when. Another thing that should be recorded in an Event Log is the creating of folder structures for the purpose of temporarily storing stuff. I can't begin to tell you the number of times I've run into the following situation on network upgrade projects. When we start looking at migrating the data from the old server we run into huge amounts of stuff that had no business being on the server in the first place. "Ah, the last IT guy must have copied so-and-so's laptop to that drive," "Gee, I guess that looks like a copy of the database from when we were installing that upgrade two years ago," "Gosh, I've no idea what all that stuff is, looks like old Goldmine data." It just goes on and on. All this old stuff accumulates like junk in your closet only it never gets cleaned out. The older it is the less likely anyone will take the responsibility to just delete it. And it all gets backed up in the nightly backup, eating up tape and adding hours to the backup job. The Event Log should make temporary copying of files easy to spot and should also generate a note as to when the data in question can safely be removed in the future. Another notebook that should be in every server room is a problem log where that "something goes wrong" bit is recorded the first time it is observed. Date, time, manifestation, symptoms, side effects, everything that is noticed should be recorded. Just as important is to record each and every step taken to try to resolve the problem, and this can take discipline because it's time consuming when you're frantically trying to fix a broken server. But the benefits are real. First, in the heat of trying to fix a computer there is a tendency to start throwing solutions at a problem hoping one of them will stick and fix something. Second, it is not uncommon for a hurriedly applied fix to not only not correct the problem but to introduce a new problem unrelated to the first one. Knowing everything that was done (and in the order that the fixes were tried) makes it a lot easier to unwind things that missed the target once the real problem is found and corrected. This all applies to end users as well. Every computer should have a system journal in close proximity to it, and every time some piece of software is installed it should be recorded. Again, date, time, who did it, and exactly what they did. Every time there's a glitch, blue screen, GPF, suddenly flaky behavior, it should be recorded. Along with which applications were running when the problem occurred, what you were doing at the time, etc. The system journal is your best resource when your computer develops a problem again because often what was recently done to a computer is a major factor in troubleshooting a problem. And it also allows patterns to be detected in what would otherwise be written off as random glitches. If you have an IT staff you can provide them with detailed information about the problem which should help get it resolved quickly. If you're on your own at least you'll have information that may help you troubleshoot the problem yourself. This is not a new idea by any stretch of the imagination but you'd be amazed at how many server rooms do not maintain written logs and very, very few end users go to the trouble. If you don't have a system journal for your computer, start one today. Yes, I know, lead graphite and papyrus derivate technology may seem pretty primitive but it's a cheap solution to troubleshooting high tech problems. You can reach T.J. Lee at: mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ Give a MICRO-LIGHT gift for MOTHER'S DAY! Micro-Lights are highly reliable with an incredibly bright light useful for any situation. This AMAZING flashlight is the size and weight of a quarter, easy to clip to your key chain, carry it in your purse or pocket and you won't know it's there. INSTANT LIGHT IN EMERGENCIES right at your fingertips, going up/down stairs, unlocking and entering your car at night, unobtrusively check on sleeping kids at night... unlimited uses. 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Everyone from the IRS to anarchists, it seems, has the familiar Acrobat logo on their web pages. Adobe also has moved into the handheld world, with Reader software for both the Palm and Pocket PC platforms. Adobe released its latest version of Acrobat, 5.0 last year, and earlier this year, updated that to 5.0.5 to support Microsoft Office XP and Windows XP. Pricing is $250 for the full version, and $100 for the upgrade. Full: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/509/tr.cgi?al1 Upgrade: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/509/tr.cgi?al2 I confess to having once been one of the skeptics. I regarded Word as a more useful way to circulate materials, and considered making Acrobat files mainly as an annoying extra process to go through to put items up on Web pages. Then, I had a major "well, duh!" moment... One of the things that had bothered me about Acrobat was that it prevents readers from altering content. That is a minus with documents that are works in progress, for which edits are expected. But then came a day when I needed to distribute materials that I wanted the readers to keep their hands off of. Suddenly--duh!--Acrobat's minus became a major plus. A similar moment came when I had carefully laid out a document using special fonts and then realized that if I sent it out as a Word file, those fonts would most likely be transmuted to Times New Roman or Arial. In Acrobat, the fonts can be made part of the package. Acrobat actually is several applications: The heavy lifting is done by "DISTILLER," a virtual printer driver, which converts PostScript (Adobe's printer file standard) into PDF. It will show up in your printer options menu, and "printing" a file to that driver creates an Acrobat file. "PDF MAKER" is a another virtual printer specific to Microsoft Office users. Essentially it is Distiller with added capabilities to read Office formatting. ADD- INS for the key Office applications are installed during setup and allow users to create PDF via menus and toolbars in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Finally, there is the ACROBAT APPLICATION itself, which looks superficially like the familiar Reader but has the ability to make layout, indexing, and security changes in PDF files. For sheer simplicity, though, most users likely will create PDF files from inside Office. The process is: 1) Have the document open on screen. 2) Click the "Convert to Adobe pdf" icon on the toolbar. 3) A standard "save as" dialog box appears for you to set a file name and location. 3) PDFMaker runs and shows you a progress bar while it makes the file. Now you're done. Particularly cool is the support for PowerPoint 2002's transition effects. It works equally as well as the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, the alternate tool for showing presentations on PCs without PowerPoint. The Acrobat menu in an Office application lets you set most key PDF options, including key security settings and choosing to open the new file in the Acrobat application. Acrobat's key advantages are: -- Your layouts and formatting show up on other PCs exactly as they do on yours. (In native Office format, the appearance would be dependent on the printer drivers and font selections on the other PCs.) -- Your documents are indexed and bookmarked to ease the reader's navigation. In Word, for example, your headings get translated into bookmarks automatically. -- You can limit the ability of readers to copy, print, or extract text and graphics from the file... in other word, block theft of your work. -- Most print shops, copy centers, and service bureaus can do professional printing from PDF files and preserve the layouts as you created them. And that is not even getting to the high-end professional capabilities such as creating forms and providing for digital signatures. The main negative is price. While the cost has come down over the years, $250 is still expensive for users who aren't making Acrobat files constantly. I would like to see a "lite" version of Acrobat--essentially the functionality in the Office PDF Maker macros--made available at a lower price, much as Adobe offers Photoshop Elements as an alternative to Photoshop for non- graphics-professional users. All-in-all, Acrobat has made good on Adobe's promise to set the standard for electronic document distribution. You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 05. Mining for Data Gold Using Microsoft Excel (by Lee Hudspeth) When some folks think of "data mining" they imagine a process involving massive databases and very expensive special-purpose software running on costly mainframes or even supercomputers. That's one part of the story, from the point of view of a company like an airline with literally hundreds of millions--if not billions--of reservation and passenger records and their field values stored over time that may reveal some profitable patterns if sifted properly. In this article I'll share with you some Excel data analysis basics that you can apply today to your own data, on your own PC. I guarantee you'll learn something new and beneficial about your business. The features I cover include list management, AutoFilter, Advanced Filter, statistics tray, subtotals, PivotTables, and more. In a recent consulting assignment I performed data mining on a scale of 10,000 records in a flat-file database spanning a decade, and my toolkit was comprised of one powerful and relatively ubiquitous tool: Microsoft Excel. The project's goal was to examine the data for patterns that might yield more information when studied in greater detail. In Excel, the term "list" and "database" are synonymous. Excel's help file defines a list like so, "A series of worksheet rows that contain related data, such as an invoice database or a set of client names and phone numbers. The first row of the list has labels for the columns." (Note: To fit this article within the designated space, I'll refer to some external resources, one of which is an Excel book Jim and I co-wrote. If you want to take a test-drive with these features you need a robust database; I provide the complete steps for doing this on a supplemental Web page; links appear at the article's end.) To read what Microsoft has to say about creating a list, study the help topic "Guidelines for creating a list on a worksheet". Assuming you've already got a list set up, click any cell inside the list then turn on the AutoFilter feature: Data, Filter, AutoFilter. Paraphrasing from our book, AutoFilter converts each column's header into a searchable drop-down control. The control contains several pre-determined choices: All, Top 10, Custom, Blanks and NonBlanks (the latter two appear only if there's at least one blank cell in the column), followed by a sorted list of all the unique values in the column. This is an amazingly powerful feature, yet so easy to use; I highly recommend you play around with it. It only takes a few mouse clicks to discover something new about your data; once you starting using AutoFilter you'll rarely turn it off. I only have room in this article to describe the overall capabilities of AutoFilter; as you dig deeper into this feature you'll discover the ability to perform simple queries from a "build your own query" dialog box or complex queries involving multiple fields that you build using formulas (this is Excel's Advanced Filter feature). Sometimes you just need to do a quick, fundamental statistical analysis on a range of cells, like a count or a sum or an average. This is literally a one-click operation using Excel's cool but little-known statistics tray. Select a range of cells (at least two cells), say, the values 2 and 3 in A1:A2. Now right-click anywhere on Excel's status bar (the horizontal bar at the bottom of the parent window that displays "Ready" at its left edge), and notice the pop-up menu: None, Average, Count, Count Nums, Max, Min, Sum. Select Average and notice that the status bar now displays the text "Average=2.5" (about two-thirds of the way across the status bar). Play around with changing the statistic of interest. From now on, whenever you select *any* range of cells, the statistic is updated dynamically. With one mouse click, Excel's subtotals feature can automatically generate single-level and multi-level subtotals. You can choose which fields to subtotal at each level change, you can have subtotals appear above or below the associated data, you can page break between groups, and you can choose between a variety of subtotal functions: Sum, Count, Average, Max, Min, Product, and more. The most important thing about subtotals is to first sort your data by the field(s) you are interested in; each field of interest is a "level." In the Orders table example (see supplemental page), to see Freight subtotals by customer you first sort the database by customer (CustomerID), then you select Data, Subtotals. Excel uses its powerful outlining feature to display these automatic subtotals, and you can put this outline view to good use. Continuing with the freight example, say you want to see only the subtotals and not the underlying detail data, click the outlining level 2 button and only the customer- level subtotals are visible. Click the outlining level 1 button and you'll see just the database-wide grand total. To see the details again click the outlining level 3 button. Removing subtotals is easy: Data, Subtotals, Remove All. PivotTables are the cream of the crop in Excel's data analysis feature set. In our book we describe them this way, "Think of a PivotTable as an interactive summary of your data. You can quickly change the functions you use for this summarization (from counts to sums to averages, and so on), change the fields across which the data is tabulated, flip through groupings and sub- groupings (pages), chart these groupings, refresh the source data, drill down or up to see more or less detail, change formatting, and more." If you've been following along with the Orders table example, what if you wanted to see a table of freight charges by destination country by employee? (Counting from the point where subtotals are removed, you need a mere 11 mouse clicks to create this table.) Here are the steps: remove all subtotals, click anywhere inside the list, select Data, PivotTable and PivotChart Report, click Next, click Next again, click Layout, drag the ShipCountry field into the Row area, drag the Employee field into the Column area, drag the Freight field into the Data area, click OK, and click Finish. And remember, a PivotTable can be updated to reflect changes in underlying data by clicking the Refresh button, or you can set it to automatically refresh each time the workbook is opened. Many more PivotTable settings are available: click the PivotTable button on the PivotTable toolbar, then select Table Options. PivotTables can give you valuable insights into your data. I highly recommend that you spend some time with them. For those of you interested in learning more about Excel's list management, PivotTable, and related features, what Jim and I wrote about these topics regarding Excel in our book "Excel 97 Annoyances" still applies today. Although the book is out of print, you can easily acquire copies through Amazon Marketplace: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/509/tr.cgi?lee1 I just tested the 12 steps we wrote that get you set up with a work-along database based on Access' Northwind sample database, and everything is the same in Excel XP and 2000 and 97. Here is my supplemental page for this article, including the complete steps for creating a robust practice list: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/509/tr.cgi?lee2 (I'll return to my series on Excel XP's new features next time.) You can reach Lee Hudspeth at: mailto:LeeHudspeth@TheNakedPC.com ** 06. 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My preferences run to Pro, which is focused on the job at hand, does it well, and generally stays out the way when it isn't needed. It installs as a toolbar in Internet Explorer or Netscape, and icons allow you to perform key tasks such as turning it off and on and to permit pop-ups on a particular Web site. Pop-Up Stopper makes sensible use of sound effects, sounding a simple beep to let you know that it has blocked a pop- up. That's your cue to decide if you want to permit them on that site. The Pro version also is a must-have for users of the just- released edition of one product I recommended previously: Norton Internet Security 2002 Professional Edition. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/509/tr.cgi?al3 The Professional package, with a street price of $93, offers one- stop shopping for security measures: firewall, ad blocking, intrusion detection, plus Norton AntiVirus. It integrates with Norton System Works, so users of that package have a relatively seamless bundle of system tools. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/509/tr.cgi?fprod2 But while it can block ads, it doesn't specifically block pop- ups. Symantec spokespeople say that may be part of next year's version. Until then, though, Pop-Up Stopper is needed. Symantec is starting to make a habit out of releasing "Professional" versions of its products a few months after the regular versions. Symantec says the new edition has more robust anti-intrusion features than plain vanilla NIS. More evident is that the software is tailored to the small business user rather than home users. For example, while NIS standard includes Web site and newsgroup blocking features intended to keep kids out of porn and violence sites, NISP's features are billed as "productivity controls" designed to allow employers to keep workers from goofing off on the job. If you already have NIS 2002, don't rush out and buy NISP 2002. But if you are planning to upgrade from an older version, I would recommend choosing this one as one that is more suited to the needs of TNPCers. You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 07. Featured Drawing - Email Viruses Haunting You? If you've never entered a The Naked PC drawing before, here's how it works. You go to a Web page on our site, answer one survey question (today's is "Have email viruses affected you?"), and type in your email address. To encourage folks to participate, we conduct a drawing from the email addresses of each survey's participants 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. 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