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Thank you to all of those readers who have commented favourably over this feature in the Bridge and for the input I have received, (especially to Julia and John) here goes number 3!
Pop-Ups
I am sure that the vast majority of Internet surfers
have suffered with the annoyance of random windows appearing whilst you are
on the Internet interrupting what you are doing and usually trying to entice
you to follow their internet links. There is no guaranteed way of preventing
these but the following will get rid of most.
Ad-aware6 is a software package that can be downloaded from www.download.com
, it is relatively self-explanatory and what’s more it is free. The
program interrogates your system for software causing the pop-ups and gives
you the option to remove them. From the same web-site you can also download
“Adware Pop-Up Stopper 2.0”, this program will prevent programs
installing themselves on your system and thus producing the pop-ups.
There are many other programs available which purport to achieve the same
results as the ones above I have reduced myself to the two above on the basis
of simplicity, personal experience and brevity.
Shortcuts
Most of you (I hope) will be familiar with the process
of “copy & paste”, “cut & paste” etc. You
may not be as familiar with the shortcuts that are available to you which
replace the need for moving the mouse and performing commands from the toolbar.
In Word, rather than copy highlighted text using the mouse (click Edit, click
copy) you can achieve the same result by holding down the “Ctrl”
key on your keyboard and pressing “C” for copy. Other common shortcuts
are:-
Ctrl + C = copy Ctrl + V = paste Ctrl + X =
cut
Ctrl + Z = undo Ctrl + I = italics Ctrl + B = bold
Ctrl + U = underline Ctrl + O = open Ctrl + S = save
A more complete list of shortcut keys
for Word can be obtained by going to the Help button on the top toolbar selecting
Microsoft Word Help and typing in “keyboard shortcuts” in the
search window.
Trojans & Worms
People often ask what a Trojans and Worms are; the
answer is below.
A Trojan horse program is not technically a virus. The key distinction between
a virus and a Trojan horse program is that a Trojan horse program does not
replicate itself; it only destroys information on the hard disk. A Trojan
horse program disguises itself as a legitimate program such as a game or utility.
A Trojan horse program often looks and initially acts like a legitimate program,
but once it is executed, it can destroy or scramble data. A Trojan horse program
can contain viruses, but is not a virus itself.
A worm is an independent program that replicates itself, crawling from machine
to machine across network connections. It often clogs networks as it spreads,
often via e-mail. The Code Red Worm replicated itself over 250,000 times in
9 hours in January 2001.
The moral: Keep your anti-virus software up to date at all times
As always, if you have any comments or little tips you have found out that
you would like to share please e-mail me at barry@cactusfixit.co.uk
Barry Wilson (Cactus Trading)