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June 29, 2004

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	What's New at Experts Exchange New TA, Feedback, spoofing, kudos, Hotmail and Google Featured Experts Two of EE's best Your Questions and Solutions seanpowell, one of our Web Page Editors Nata's Corner Virus steals financial info Inside the Numbers ameba's list of new Certificates Tip for New Members Ask for help in closing questions		DOWNLOAD A FREE, 30-DAY TRIAL OF VERITY ULTRASEEK
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New Topic Area: By request, Microsoft Project. More -- many more -- to follow.

Feedback on Feedback: When the Feedback system premiered a couple of weeks ago, we expected a few problems -- most of which involve members leaving posts that should be asked in questions, rather than in the Feedback. So we're reposting the guidelines:

Use common sense. Remember, the person you flame today might be the person who can answer your question tomorrow.
Don't use Feedback to ask a question or to explain one.
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The Membership Guidelines apply. Abuse the system, and you'll lose the privileges.

Spoofing: We received an email from a member saying they didn't like the fact that we told people to go to a financial institution's webpage to report spoofing because spoofers leave a handy little link in their emails so you can update the information -- which, of course, gives the information to the spoofers. Their advice: delete the email. We'll stand by our suggestion -- but make sure you're actually going to the financial institution's website. No reputable financial institution will ever ask you for information via email, nor will they provide links within emails for you to follow. You can certainly delete the email... but that won't help the banks catch the crooks.

Note from a member: "I just wanted to send a note of gratitude and appreciation for the great service you provide. Although I'm fairly proficient, only needing your service once to date, I really enjoy staying plugged-in with your email newsletters. All the best and may you all at Experts Exchange have a great week." Thanks from all of us for the kind words.

Hotmail to offer 250MB: Whoever said email was destined for the graveyard hasn't read the latest news. In an effort to keep up with Google's new GMail and Yahoo, Microsoft has decided to up the ante for their own email free service.While likely to stem the flow to other providers, it's unlikely that we'll see hotmail accounts auctioned off on eBay anytime soon. Read the entire article.

The Search is the Thing: Getting listed on Google's #1 spot is turning out to be a search for the digital Holy Grail. So much so, that two companies are even sponsoring a contest to see who can pull it off. Many companies, and even personal blog sites, are doing whatever they can to achieve that glorified position, whether it's ethical or not. Read on to find out why in business, sometimes it's the game that's most important. Read the entire article.


Our questions, articles and featured experts were provided by Web Development Page Editor seanpowell.

Your questions and solutions		Featured Experts
Still open: Google not picking up links to my site? Everyone wants to get listed. Do you know how? Points: 250 06/23/2004 11:30AM PDT Can you help? Still open: Best tutorials and examples for ASP.NET Struggling to keep up? Read on to learn how to teach an old dog some new tricks... Points: 25 06/16/2004 07:42PM PDT Can you help? Still open: html within textarea? Sometimes What You See Is Not What You Get... Points: 500 Date: 06/24/2004 06:33AM PDT Can you help? Is it possible to make my PC play a wav when someone posts a message at my site? Experts chime in on how to keep your PC ringing. Date: 06/15/2004 04:47AM PDT View the solution Browser "Hijack"? This question, we're unhappy to say, occurs all too frequently here on EE. Date: 06/11/2004 02:09PM PDT View the solution Standard response material, re: Spyware, Adware, BHOs, and other Malware. In an effort to help maintain a central link repository, a number of Experts have taken the time to assemble the most relevant and up-to-date material to keep your browser happy! View the solution		rcmb rcmb, a retired Naval Officer, spent 23 years in the submarine force before moving on to "bigger and better things". We're glad he did, as his contributions to the Microsoft FrontPage topic area have been exemplary. In fact, he's just earned his very first EE certificate. Congratulations Curtis. Registration Date: July 3, 2003 Expert Points: 91915 Certificates: Master, Microsoft FrontPage CrYpTiC_MauleR CrYpTiC_MauleR is a computer enthusiast from Orlando, FL. As he notes, "I just have a brain like a sponge when it comes to computers, I learn as much as I can and soak up knowledge here and there." Fortunately for us, it's more here than there. Nick is always helpful, and one of the best at contributing with fellow Experts. Keep up the great Work Nick. Registration Date: January 28, 2003 Expert Points: 117279 seanpowell One of the hardest-working Page Editors we have, seanpowell is the owner of his own design firm, and somehow manages to scrape out a living while spending what seems like 24/7 on Experts Exchange. Thanks for your great work, Sean! Registration Date: March 22, 2003 Expert Points: 1062811 Certificates: Wizard, HTML and Cascading Style Sheets; Guru, Microsoft FrontPage; Master, Web Development ee_ai_construct Runner-up to Lunchy among the Mods for weirdest sense of humor. AI (or "re-order part number #xm34", as he calls himself) joined EE in March 2003, and managed to join the Millionaire Club in about six months. He told us he enjoys helping people, so we took him at his word and asked him to join the Moderators in March 2004. Following a long contract -- he makes more than twice the $0 the rest of us get -- he finally accepted, and we're glad he did.

Tip from the Page Editors: It's all about communication. EE's Experts are a fanatical bunch, and will go to extraordinary lengths to get to the bottom of your problem, but not without your help. Keep track of the comments that have been posted to your question, answer any requests for more information, and don't forget to close the question out once you're happy. Remember, the Experts need you just as much as you need them :-)

One of the least-known new features at Experts Exchange is our new Link Exchange. Our Link Exchange program is beneficial to both sites in a couple ways:
1. The number of resources available to users on both sites will increase
2. Site relevance is increased within all major search engines when a site provides links to and from quality resources

If you would like to swap links with EE, just fill out the form at the Link Exchange page.

Nata's Corner: Virus steals financial info

The Associated Press reported Friday that a new trojan horse virus, dubbed Download.Ject by Microsoft, may be aimed at stealing credit card and other valuable information through hundreds and possibly thousands of infected Web sites. The infection appears to take advantage of three separate flaws with Microsoft IIS 5.0 and Internet Explorer. Microsoft said software updates to fix two of them had been released in April, but the third flaw was newly discovered and had no patch to fix it yet.

The infection makes subtle changes to the Web site so visitors get a piece of code that's designed to retrieve from a Russian Web site software that records a person's keystrokes and can send data back. MacIntosh versions of Internet Explorer are not affected. Security experts are certain that until Microsoft releases a patch, the flaw will continue to be exploited.

Both Symantec and Computer Associates have fixes listed on their websites.

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Inside the numbers

ameba, one of EE's prominent Experts, provides us with a list of newly earned Certificates. His list of all of the Certified Experts is located at his site. The list below covers the period from June 13 through June 26.


Expert	Certified	in Topic Area	Expert	Certified	in Topic Area	Expert	Certified	in Topic Area
vinnyd79 Idle_Mind YohanShminge R_Rajesh p_sie phileoca aflockhart mantarae TimCottee knightmad AmirAzhdari SjoerdVerweij mcmonap kselvia dgelinas x4u AlexFM itsmeandnobodyelse stefan73	Sage Guru Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Wizard Guru Master	Visual Basic Visual Basic Visual Basic Visual Basic Visual Basic MS Access MS Access ASP ASP Delphi Delphi Microsoft SQL Microsoft SQL Microsoft SQL JavaScript Java C++ C++ C++	blue_zee SheharyaarSaahil Bembi dstoker509 rhandels PeteLong sciwriter JFrederick29 brettdj CSLARSEN aflockhart kandura Squinky ldbkutty CrYpTiC_MauleR What90 leonstryker BigSchmuh Netman66	Guru Master Guru Guru Master Guru Master Master Sage Master Master Guru Master Master Master Master Guru Master Master	Windows 98 Windows 98 Exchange_Server Exchange_Server Exchange_Server Networking Networking Networking Excel Excel Excel Perl PHP PHP PHP Microsoft Network VB DB Databases Operating Systems	SheharyaarSaahil sirbounty owensleftfoot da99rmd CrazyOne PeteLong kronostm rcmb gregoryyoung TheLearnedOne SheharyaarSaahil gilbar snoyes_jw seanpowell ahoffmann mmarinov Fatal_Exception Cayce sunnycoder	Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Guru Master Master Master Master Wizard Master Guru Master Master Master	Applications Applications Linux Linux Windows Security Windows Security Desktops FrontPage VB.NET VB.NET Miscellaneous Word PHP and Databases CSS Linux Setup ASP.NET DSL/Cable C++ Builder Languages

829 experts have 1204 certifications: Genius:10 Sage:47 Wizard:82 Guru:208 Master:857

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