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This was written by Ed Walker just after 9/11/2001. We have put it on our site every year there after. www.surfinthenet.net/tribute.htm

HP announcement on Thursday that it is getting out of all its hardware business. I expect that HP's PC business will be sold to a Chinese company, due to the fact that the PC market is shrinking in the US, while the Asia and Latin market is growing. The two most likely candidates will be Lenovo and Huawei. That will leave two American companies in the PC market, Dell and Apple. Dell will be the only US-based company selling Windows PCs.

 A new virus that exploits public fear of terrorism in the wake of the recent attacks has begun appearing in the United States.

The virus, known variously as W32.Vote and Troj_Vote, is a garden-variety mass mailer, except for two unique characteristics: It arrives with an executable attachment named WTC.exe that when launched attempts to reformat the machines C: drive.

It spreads by mailing itself to every name in the users Microsoft Outlook address book, and the e-mail carries a subject line of "FW: Peace between America and Islam." The body of the e-mail asks the recipient to vote on whether the United States should go to war.

Once executed, the virus attempts to delete some anti-virus files and then reformats the PCs C: drive.

Remember, the safest bet is not to open any email or attachments that you do not know the sender.  

A new family social site has been launched. Some nice features are up loading videos, photos, and a blog and memo page.  Coming soon will be an area for playing games!

Click on the link and sign up at www.linksus.net

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