Terry's Computer Tips - Newsletter
December 10, 2006

Terry's Computer Tips Newsletter
http://www.terryscomputertips.com
A computer tips newsletter for users of PC's.

Volume 2, Number 26 — Sunday, December 10, 2006

Part 1  | Part 2  | Part 3 | Part 4

IN THIS WEEK'S ON-LINE ISSUE:
   1.   Unadvertised Sale on CounterSpy, iHateSpam and Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall
   2.   Updates Last Week
   3.   Feedback from Readers
   4.   Running Programs as a Different User
   5.   HOWTO: Create a New User in Windows XP
   6.   My Computer Security Software Recommendations
   7.   HOWTO: Unsubscribing From Newsletters
   8.   Recommend my Terry's Computer Tips Newsletter to Your Friends

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1.  Unadvertised Sale on CounterSpy, iHateSpam
and Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall

I'm able to tell you about an unadvertised coupon sale on three great products from Sunbelt Software. These coupon codes are good at the time of purchase only and they expire at 12 midnight, Eastern Standard Time, December 31, 2006.

Sunbelt isn't advertising these couponn codes on their web site -- you have to know about them already, in order to use them.

You can get $5 off of CounterSpy, my choice for an anti-spyware/anti-adware program, if you use coupon code CSC5TY.

I believe that everyone needs an always-running anti-spyware/anti-adware program. I use and recommend CounterSpy for anti-spyware / anti-adware.

You can get $5 off of Sunbelt Kerio Personal firewall, if you use coupon code SPF5TY.

I use the Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall to protect my computers with its two-way (inbound and outbound) protection. Read my review for installation and configuration tips.

Finally, if you use Outlook or Outlook Express, you can get Sunbelt's award-winning iHateSpam for $5 Off, if you use coupon code IHS5TY.

Since CounterSpy, iHateSpam and Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall are each regularly $19.95, the $5 coupon discount is equivalent to a 25% discount on a license.

Download and try them -- all three have free trials -- but purchase by December 31, 2006 at 12 midnight EST to get the coupon discount. Coupons have no cash value. Only one coupon per transaction.

 

2.  Updates Last Week

Microsoft (operating systems, email, web browser, office suites):
No updates this week. Microsoft releases almost all updates once per month, on the second Tuesday.

Firefox (web browser, http://www.mozilla.com, free):
None this week. Current version 2.0. Latest v1.5 version is 1.5.0.8 -- all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2." Firefox v2.0 was released on Tuesday, October 24th.

Opera (web browser, http://www.opera.com, free):
No update last week. Current version 9.02 was released during late September.

Netscape (web browser, http://browser.netscape.com, free):
No update this week. Version 8.1.2 was released during the week ending September 30.

US-CERT issued a press-release on November 8th that recommended that Netscape users turn off JavaScript. (Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird were subject to the same issues, but new versions were released on November 8th to solve the problem.) AOL has not updated Netscape to the new version of the underlying "Gecko" browser.

SeaMonkey (web browser, email, HTML editor, newsreader; http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey; free): No updates this week. Current version 1.0.6 was released on November 8th.

Eudora (email, http://www.eudora.com, options: paid, sponsored or free/lite):
No update last week. Version 7.1.0.9 was released October 11, 2006. This was announced as to be the last commercial version before Eudora becomes open-source in the first half of 2007.

Mozilla Thunderbird (email, http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird, free):
Thunderbird version 1.5.0.8 was released November 8th. This is fixes a significant security problem.

OpenOffice (office suite — spreadsheet, word processor, presentations, graphics, web design; http://www.openoffice.org; free):
Version 2.04 was released on Friday October 13, which was also the 6th anniversary of OpenOffice.org. What's new?

Part 1  | Part 2  | Part 3 | Part 4

Volume 2, Number 26 — Sunday, December 10, 2006

Copyright © 2006 Terry A. Stockdale.  All rights reserved.