Number 252 - May 2004

UPDATE
Elections of Officers for Next Year    Our fiscal year begins in June and our tradition is to elect new officers at the May meeting to serve for the next year. Please come to the May meeting prepared both stand for election and to elect members to the offices of President, Vicepresident/Program Chair and Secretary/Treasurer and to (re)appoint a disk librarian and newsletter editor.    It is very easy to stand by and let others do it. We are all busy with our daily lives and activities. Participation in this user group is one of those activities that is important to you or you wouldn't be a member. Lets all give it the attention it deserves. While we appreciate, even applaud the efforts of our current and past board,new faces on the board are encouraged and welcome because new methods, directions or ideas for the group are to be welcomed and encouraged.    Please think about stepping forward to serve on the board for the next year. This Month's Articles Prove That The Web Is Worldwide    If you read the byline on most of the articles in this month's newsletter you will discover that they come from newsletters w-a-a-ay-y down south ..... in Australia! In fact one of our favorite websites for finding and surfing for articles in other newsletters is that run by Australian Ash Nallawalla.    Ash Nalawalla began as a SYSOP back in the days when user groups ran Bulletin Board Systems, and interchanged in- formation that way	(over telephone lines) before the Internet and cable became popular. He has made his site available for Computer User Groups all over the world to list their websites and newsletter addresses so that other Users and Editors may have access to them. Many sites simply list their meeting dates and topics, while others carry their full newsletters on site. If you wish to take a look, Ash Nallawalla's site is http://easyrsvp.com/ugotw where ugotw stands for User Groups Of The World. Symantec Vulnerability Alert, April 20, 2004    from Ray Mills    Several vulnerabilities were reported in Symantec's Norton Internet Security. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions or execute arbitrary code on the target system.    eEye Digital Security reported that a remote user can execute arbitrary code on the target system in the default installation.    A remote user can also cause "severe" denial-of-service conditions on the target system.    No further details have been released pending vendor correction.    The vendor was reportedly notified on April 19, 2004 Editor's Note:    Regular (daily) updates should handle this, thus applying corrections as soon as they become available.
Number 252 - May 2004