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TELECOM Digest     Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:23:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 364

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Internet Phone Carriers Still Seeking 911 Replies (Jeremy Pelofsky)
    Google Pauses on Book Search After Copyright Flap (Eric Auchard)
    D. Telekom Home is Couch Potato Heaven (Prodhan and Sikhrar)
    TiVo Tests Internet Download Service (Greg Sandoval)
    Telecom Update #492, August 12, 2005 (Angus TeleManagement Group)
    WorldCom's Sullivan Gets Five Years (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Western Union Private Line Voice Service -- "Hot Line" (Lisa Hancock)
    Stock Market Ticker Tape Machines? (Lisa Hancock)
    Overview of Telecom History? (Vincent M)
    Re: Austin Gaffe Stirs Fantasy (AntwainBarbour)
    Re: Don't Forget Peter Jennings'... Flaw (mc)
    Re: Hiroshima Marks 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Attack (jtaylor)
    Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 (Paul W. Schleck)
    Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 (Robert Bonomi)
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From: Jeremy Pelofsky <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Internet Phone Carriers Still Seeking 911 Replies
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:29:08 -0500


By Jeremy Pelofsky

Some of the top U.S. Internet phone providers told U.S. regulators
this week they are still trying to obtain acknowledgments from
customers that they know the limitations of dialing 911 with their
service.

Some customers of Internet phone service, known as Voice Over Internet
Protocol (VOIP), have had trouble getting help when dialing the
emergency number 911, which prompted the Federal Communications
Commission to order changes.

Unlike traditional phone service, not all Internet phones provide 911
dispatchers with the location of callers, and some calls have been
routed to administrative lines that are not always monitored.

The FCC in May ordered companies to fix those issues by late November
and, in the interim, to get acknowledgments from all customers that
they understand those service limitations. Analysts estimate there are
more than 2 million VOIP customers.

Vonage Holdings Corp., the biggest U.S. Internet phone provider, said
it has received acknowledgments from more than 90 percent of its
customers but was unable to predict whether it would achieve the 100
percent goal by an August 29 deadline.

"Vonage is continuing its campaign to contact and obtain affirmative
acknowledgment from all of its customers," the company told the FCC.
Dozens of carriers reported that they were contacting customers via
letters, calls and e-mails.

"Vonage expects to send out at least one e-mail per week and to
continue to restrict account access of subscribers who have not yet
submitted an affirmative acknowledgment," it said in an August 10
filing.

AT&T Corp. said that it had received affirmative replies from 77
percent of its customers as of August 9, but about 10 percent of its
Internet phone customers may not provide acknowledgments by the
deadline.

Net2Phone said 98 percent of its own customers had provided
acknowledgments and the company was still working on the remaining 2
percent.

The FCC initially ordered companies to obtain acknowledgments from all
customers by July 29 but then gave companies an extra month as long as
they filed a report detailing their efforts.

The FCC said only those companies that filed reports about their
compliance efforts by August 10 would escape enforcement action for
violations until the end of the month.

The agency said service should be disconnected for those customers who
have not provided an acknowledgment by then.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. 

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From: Eric Auchard <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Google Pauses on Book Search After Copyright Flap
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:30:20 -0500


By Eric Auchard

Google Inc., responding to an outcry by publishers, has temporarily
scaled back plans to make the full text of copyrighted books in five
of the world's great libraries searchable via the Internet.

Google, the world's most popular way of searching the Internet, said
it will allow copyright holders who contact the company to withhold
books from the project, according to Adam Smith, program manager of
the Google Print program.

For three months, Google will stop scanning copyrighted books to allow
owners to inform the company of objections.

"Any and all copyright holders ... can tell us which books they'd
prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library," Adam Smith, the
product manager of Google Print, said in a statement on Google's
corporate Web site.

Nonetheless, Google is moving ahead with its ambitious project to work
with publishers and librarians to scan books in the public domain that
are not covered by copyright, he said.

Libraries participating in the program include Oxford University,
Harvard University, the New York Public Library, Stanford University
and the University of Michigan.

The Google spokesman declined to comment on how many book titles are
now searchable on the Google Print site, which works by typing the
name of an author, a book title or a word or phrase into a Web search
box at http://print.google.com/.

Google is working with publishers large and small to encourage them to
make their books searchable. In exchange, Google can create distinct
pages for each book with advertising and links to retailers. As a
further inducement, publishers can create a direct sales link to
consumers for their titles.

"We are really excited about the scope of this program and the good it
will do for the world," Smith said in a telephone interview. Google
said that virtually all major U.S. and U.K. publishers are partici-
pating, at least in part, in Google Print.

Critics of the program said that Google's plan to allow copyright
holders to indicate whether they wish to opt out of the Google Print
project switches the burden of upholding copyright from infringers to
the copyright holders.

"This really stands copyright law on its head," Patricia Schroeder,
president and chief executive of the Association of American
Publishers, said in a phone interview. "There are hundreds of years of
tradition that go the other way."

"Google's announcement does nothing to relieve the publishing
industry's concerns," said Schroeder, a former congresswoman from
Colorado.

Smith replied that Google is extending the logic of searching for
online materials to printed books to make them more accessible.

"What we are doing here is legal under the principles of fair use," he
said.

Schroeder said her organization and Google had been unable to come to
terms on a proposal to address the concerns of copyright holders.

Smith said Google was continuing to talk with organizations of
publishers, authors and other interested parties to strike a balance
between the interests of publishers and readers.

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From: Georgina Prodhan & Rajiv Sekhrir  
Subject: D. Telekom's Home is Couch Potato Heaven
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:33:10 -0500


By Georgina Prodhan and Rajiv Sekhri

The two-story pre-fabricated house dwarfed by Communist-era buildings
in the center of Berlin looks as though it belongs in the suburb of a
small town but it is actually Deutsche Telekom's vision of a high-tech
future.

 From the moment you cross the threshold of the T-Com house,
everything is theoretically at your fingertips.

"The idea is to not go out at all," said house manager Anne-Kathrin
Berends. "You can do everything inside."

Surrounded by flags and lit up by Deutsche Telekom's signature
magenta-colored lights, the house is a very public walk-in laboratory
where a lucky few can test out the company's latest gadgets and get a
glimpse of a supposedly fuss-free future.

The central concept is a system of plasma screens that dominate every
room, serving up entertainment and information linked by an Internet
IP system to handheld PDAs (personal digital assistants) via wireless
local area network (WLAN).

"Anyone can see straight away just how simply and conveniently our
communications solutions integrate every aspect of modern day life,"
said Achim Berg, a member of the management board at T-Com, Telekom's
fixed-line and broadband unit.

A favorite feature is the mood lighting: Feel like a party? Change the
room's color scheme to vibrant reds and oranges. Want to de-stress? Go
for soothing blue with calm music.

There can be problems -- during a recent visit, screens froze as
competing PDAs vied for their control -- but T-Com house still has a
lot to offer couch potatoes.

TAKING IT EASY IN T-COM HOUSE

Real-time or face-to-face communication is no longer necessary --
instead there is a multi-media whiteboard by the door where you can
swap e-mails, pictures or text messages with housemates.

If you don't feel like entertaining visitors, let them leave a video
recording at the front door and relax while a robot vacuum cleaner
trundles around the floors and a torso-shaped shirt press blow-dries
your work clothes to perfection.

And don't worry about the children misbehaving -- a Webcam will keep
an eye on them. Just don't let them get their hands on a PDA or you
might find alarms going off, blinds going up and down and television
programs abruptly interrupted.

If you feel like a spot of exercise or fancy a look around Germany's
capital city, step onto the running machine and let a plasma screen
take you on a virtual tour of Berlin.

The T-Com house was built by WeberHaus, which makes pre-fabricated
homes for thousands of Germans, and inventors hope it will soon become
a reality for what they call average German families.

Mail-order company Neckermann provided the furnishings and engineering
firm Siemens supplied appliances and house automation.

"It's a prototype," said Berends, adding that the gadgets being tested
are expected to be ready for the market in 15 to 18 months. "We want
to find out what normal German people think about this kind of
technology."

So far, she says, the mood lighting has been the biggest hit with some
20 groups who beat tens of thousands of online contestants to spend a
long weekend in the house, which opened on March 1.

The lighting system, however, is not for sale. In fact, the only item
which Deutsche Telekom has definite plans to bring to market is the
whiteboard message center, which should be available for under 500
euros within 18 months.

Siemens already supplies other house-automation systems that remotely
control security, temperature or kitchen appliances.

Most of these are not installed in the T-Com house for fear of
accidents or of frightening guests -- who have ranged from young
families to groups of elderly friends to the Bayern Munich soccer team
 -- with too much technology.

An intelligent fridge, which scans for missing products and compiles
shopping lists, stands in an exhibition at the Communications Museum
nearby but is not featured in the house.

"Germany is not really the market for that. Maybe in 20 years or
something, but not yet," said Berends.

Perhaps tellingly, only one visitor so far has actually expressed
interest in buying the whole house with its contents -- and he was
Italian.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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From: Greg Sandoval <ap-tech@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: TiVo Tests Internet Download Service
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:37:40 -0500


By GREG SANDOVAL, AP Technology Writer

Add TiVo Inc. to the list of companies trying to wed the Internet to
television. The digital recording company is preparing to enable
customers to download TV shows to their set-top boxes via the Internet
 -- even before the shows air on TV.

TiVo has struck a deal with the Independent Film Channel to transmit
several of the cable channel's shows through a broadband connection as
part of a trial program. A group of customers were asked to take part
in the test and those who chose to participate will begin receiving
the IFC shows next week, said TiVo spokesman Elliot Sloane.

Content on demand has long been a holy grail for Internet and cable
companies as they try to create the next generation of television. No
one yet has found a way to overcome key technological hurdles, such as
finding a speedy way to pump two-hour movies through broadband, or
convince Hollywood that it can profit from Internet broadcasts.

Still, broadband connections are picking up speed, and are moving
closer to becoming a reliable delivery method for broadcast-quality
video.  Should the day come that video is downloaded at the touch of a
button, some of the stakeholders in the sector foresee a vast video
universe of endless variety.

For TiVo, the news comes a day after the company saw its stock fall
more than 6 percent following a media report that DirecTV was planning
to stop marketing the service to its 14 million customers. News
Corp.-owned DirecTV is planning to throw support behind a competing
digital recording company. About 70 percent of TiVo's 3.3 million
users have come from its deal with DirecTV.

TiVo shares were up 3 cents at $5.65 in midday trading Friday on the
Nasdaq Stock Market.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. 

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:56:49 -0700
Subject: Telecom Update #492, August 12, 2005
From: Angus TeleManagement Group <jriddell@angustel.ca>
Reply-To: Angus TeleManagement Group <jriddell@angustel.ca>



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IN THIS ISSUE: 

** Bell Offers Hosted VoIP for Small, Medium Business 
** Rogers Firefly Targets Pre-Teens 
** Bell Offers Cellular Tracking for Families 
** Linton Named EVP at Rogers 
** Policy Review Submissions Due Monday 
** Prince Rupert Spins Off City Telco 
** More Appeals Filed Against CRTC VoIP Decision 
** "Spam King" Agrees to Pay Damages 
** Aliant Adds Self-Service Options 
** Small ILECs Want Price Cap Regime Extended 
** Is Phone Penetration Falling in U.S.? 
** WorldCom CFO Gets Five Years
** Work Stoppage Delays Telus TV Launch 
** Enterprise Sector Leads Nortel Sales Gain 
** Cisco Profits Up, Shares Down 
** "Telemanagement Live" Brochure Now Online 

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BELL OFFERS HOSTED VoIP FOR SMALL, MEDIUM BUSINESS: Bell Canada this
week launched a hosted VoIP service for small and medium-sized
businesses.  Business IP Voice provides local phone service, extension
to extension calling, and a range of calling features including Find
Me/Follow Me, Meet Me Conferencing, and Voicemail to Email.

** Bell's proposed tariff for the service received interim 
   approval on July 26. Intervenors have until September 2 
   to submit comments on the tariff.

www.crtc.gc.ca/8740/eng/2005/b2.htm#6883

** In July the CRTC asked for comment on Bell's Digital 
   Voice, a consumer VoIP service whose tariff has some 
   similarities. (see Telecom Update #486, 488)

www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Notices/2005/pt2005-9.htm

ROGERS FIREFLY TARGETS PRE-TEENS: Rogers Wireless now offers Firefly,
a phone designed "for pre-teens and their parents." The phone has no
dialpad; parents use a PIN to program up to 22 numbers, including
speed keys for mom and dad.

BELL OFFERS CELLULAR TRACKING FOR FAMILIES: Bell Mobility's new Seek &
Find service enables parents to determine their children's whereabouts
if the child has a GPS-equipped cellphone and the phone is switched
on.  Parents can check location on the Internet 20 times a month for
$5.

LINTON NAMED EVP AT ROGERS: Bill Linton, former President and CEO of
Call-Net Enterprises, is now Executive Vice-President of Rogers
Communications Inc. Call-Net was acquired by Rogers Communications on
July 1 and renamed Rogers Telecom Holdings. (See Telecom Update #488)

POLICY REVIEW SUBMISSIONS DUE MONDAY: Submissions to the Telecom
Policy Review are to be filed by August 15. They will be made public
on the panel's website, where some comments are already posted. (see
Telecom Update #485)

www.telecomreview.ca/epic/internet/intprp-gecrt.nsf/en/h_rx00025e.html

PRINCE RUPERT SPINS OFF CITY TELCO: Prince Rupert B.C.'s CityTel,
until now a department of the city government, has been spun off as a
city-owned corporation and renamed City West. The new company has
agreed to buy the northern B.C. cable business and assets of Monarch
Cablesystems for $23.5 million.

MORE APPEALS FILED AGAINST CRTC VoIP DECISION: The Coalition for
Competitive Telecommunications, the Vancouver Board of Trade, and the
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada have each
petitioned the federal Cabinet, opposing economic regulation of
incumbent telcos' VoIP services, as ruled in CRTC Telecom Decision
2005-28.

** Earlier Cabinet appeals of this decision were filed by the 
   Government of Saskatchewan (see Telecom Update #488) and 
   by Aliant, Bell Canada, SaskTel, Telebec, and Telus (see 
   Telecom Update #490). 

"SPAM KING" AGREES TO PAY DAMAGES: Microsoft has won $7 million in
damages from Scott Richter, whose Colorado company is alleged to have
sent 38 billion spam messages a year in violation of U.S. law. Richter
denied the allegations but agreed to let authorities monitor his
business in future.

ALIANT ADDS SELF-SERVICE OPTIONS: Using software from California-based
eGain, Aliant has enhanced the customer self-service options available
on its website.

SMALL ILECs WANT PRICE CAP REGIME EXTENDED: The Canadian Independent
Telephone Company Joint Task Force, representing most of the small
incumbent carriers in Canada, says the price cap regime under which
they have been regulated since January 2002 has worked well for
providers and consumers. They want the framework extended for another
four years, with minor modifications.

www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2005/8663/c136_200509201.htm

IS PHONE PENETRATION FALLING IN U.S.? A March 2005 Federal
Communications Commission study shows that 92.5% of U.S. homes have
either wireline or wireless phone service, a sharp decline from 95.5%
two years earlier. This would indicate that 8.7 million homes cannot
make or receive phone calls, the largest number since 1983. The
National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates has asked the
FCC to investigate whether the statistics are correct.

WORLDCOM CFO GETS FIVE YEARS: Scott Sullivan, the former WorldCom
Chief Financial Officer whose testimony held convict CEO Bernard
Ebbers, has been sentenced to five years in prison for his part in the
US$11 billion fraud. The judge said Sullivan was the "architect" and
"day-to-day manager" of the scheme, but gave him a short sentence
because he cooperated with prosecutors.

WORK STOPPAGE DELAYS TELUS TV LAUNCH: Telus says its plans to launch
digital TV "are on hold until we see the work stoppage through to a
positive conclusion."

ENTERPRISE SECTOR LEADS NORTEL SALES GAIN: Nortel Networks reports
second quarter revenues of US$2.86 billion, up 10% over the same
period a year ago and 13% over the previous quarter. Sales of the
enterprise networks division increased 22% on the year; sales in
Canada rose 34%.

CISCO PROFITS UP, SHARES DOWN: Cisco Systems revenues for the three
months ended July 30 were US$6.58 billion, 11% higher than a year
ago. Net income increased 11.6% to 1.54 billion. A Cisco forecast that
sales would increase only 10% in the next quarter sparked an 8%
decline in share price.

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the Fall 2005 TeleManagement Live conference and exposition are now
available online. This year's agenda includes a day of in-depth
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Managing Change in Telecom, and other topics.

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:57:21 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: WorldCom's Sullivan gets five years


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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Western Union Private Line Voice Service -- "Hot Line"
Date: 12 Aug 2005 12:57:16 -0700


In the mid 1960s Western Union introduced a private line voice service
called "Hot Line".  In essence, a person lifting the receiver of one
telephone would cause a specified distant telephone to ring over a
private line.  The connection was faster and cheaper than placing a
conventional long distance call over the Bell System.  WU charged by 6
second increments and at a lower rate; the Bell System at that time
had a 3 minute minimum.  WU says their arrangement was cheaper when
more than 3 calls a day were made.

The connection between the two telephones was actually not a dedicated
private line, but shared use of the WU network via concentrators.  If
a circuit was busy there were alternates.

See:
http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/21-2/p104.htm

The article said the service was popular among brokers between field
offices and the central office serving the stock exchange for calling
in stock orders.  Such calls were normally brief.

Obviously this service had some limitations since it was telephone-set
to telephone-set.  I don't think this could terminate in a PBX system
to allow shared use of the line by a whole organization which would
give more flexibility.  I don't know if WU permitted any kind of
multiple extension sets at the subscriber since a specialized telephone
set they provided was used.  For example, a secretary might want to
answer the boss's hot/line phone if he was out.

WU also reported customers wanted to get the service in more cities
than available.

None the less, it seemed like a pretty good idea for its time.

Would anyone know how successful this service was and how long it
lasted?


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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Stock market ticker tape machines?
Date: 12 Aug 2005 13:31:51 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


For many years a symbol of Wall Street has been the stock market ticker
tape machine.  This was a table top glass-domed unit that printed a
tape of trades.

My impression from Oslin's book was that this unit was developed around
1930 and had a service lifespan of 30 years.  Faster units to handle
larger market volumes of the 1960s replaced it.  WU had to continually
speed up the wire to handle ever more trading volumes, which exploded
in the 1960s.  (Historically, the tape printed the sale of 100 stock
lots by the symbol of the stock and the sale price).

These tapes were showered down upon parades in New York, thus the name
"ticker tape parade".  For many years it's really been a "scrap paper"
parade but that doesn't sound as good.

Along with this system was a wall display system used in brokerage
offices.  The trades were projected on a wall where investors could
watch it.

In the 1960s computerized stock quote machines became available which
also showed the bid, asked, and closing price of stock sales.  Western
Union had a big business handling stock brokers and connecting field
offices to New York to announce trading information and send in
orders.

I was wondering what kind of machine, if any, replaced the classic
glass-dome model and continued to produce a tape showing trades.

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From: Vincent M <vincentNOSPAM@REMOVE.fr>
Subject: Overview of Telecom History ?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:43:17 +0200
Organization: Guest of ProXad - France


Hi everyone,

I'm looking for an overview on the telecom's history.

-When it really beguns, where, which technique ...

Can someone recommend any site/book ?

Thanks,

Vincent


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You might begin right here, at our site
for some basic information.  http://telecom-digest.org is a good
start; look at the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) files; also check
the files at http://telecom-digest.org/history and the other sections
in our archives.   PAT]

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From: AntwainBarbour <ukcats4218016@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Austin Gaffe Stirs Fantasy
Date: 12 Aug 2005 11:59:05 -0700


I just read this article.  Wow.  What is going on here?  Are all cable
companies working like this?  Does this seem right?  Just raises a lot
of questions I guess.

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From: mc <mc_no_spam@uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Don't Forget Peter Jennings'... Flaw
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:31:45 -0400


> Actually Steve you are wrong on this one. Last night August 10, 2006,

You're posting from the future?


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Actually, I did that because I wanted
to see if anyone would notice it or not. (smile).  PAT]

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From: jtaylor <jtaylor@deletethis.hfx.andara.com>
Subject: Re: Hiroshima Marks 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Attack
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:29:33 -0300
Organization: MCI Canada News Reader Service


Andrew Hastings <abh@nospam.acm.org> wrote in message
news:telecom24.363.10@telecom-digest.org:

> According to Edward Teller as quoted by John McCarthy, the
> miscalculation may have been intentional.

> See http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/teller.html.

> -Andrew

I knew that -- but Heisenberg may have been the only one who also did,
at the time.  That the decision makers had/were given the wrong info
doesn't change the fact that the Germans were in no way "close to
having the bomb".

> jtaylor wrote:

>> Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net> wrote in message
>> news:telecom24.361.15@telecom-digest.org...

>>> The Germans were pretty much on their way to having their own atomic
>>> weapons.

>> The stuff I've read (Farm Hall transcripts, for instance) says no,
>> they were working on a pile, not bombs.  They miscalculated the amount
>> of fissionable material necessary and so thought they could not

>> a) get enough;
>> b) if not a), get such a big bomb to anywhere it would do them any good.

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:38:29 CDT
From: Paul W. Schleck <pschleck@oasis.novia.net>
Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0


Pat,

I recall that one, or both, of these free Microsoft tools has an
option to return your copy of Internet Explorer to its original
factory settings:

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx

Microsoft Anti-Spyware (Beta)

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

The second tool installs itself as a startup utility, and runs
periodically to check for spyware, so make sure that that's what you
want.  The current versions of both of these tools may also require
that you do Microsoft's confirmation that you have a licensed copy of
XP, so make sure that you're comfortable with that, also.

I recall you mentioning using Spybot Search and Destroy, so I'll assume
you have run the current version already (in Windows "Safe Mode" and
from read-only media if you want to be absolutely sure).


Paul W. Schleck
pschleck@novia.net
http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/
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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:26:17 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom0.0.1@telecom-digest.org>,
TELECOM Digest Editor <ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> This is an appeal to any Windows Internet Explorer person in our
> readership who can help me:

> Wednesday night/Thursday morning someone stuck me with a virus and the
> end result was my Internet Explorer browser is gone. I cannot get the
> browser to come up at all; clicking on the icon makes it sit for a few
> seconds, then the screen flashes ONCE  as though it was getting ready
> to deliver the browser, but no such luck. I have cleared out the virus
> but apparently a driver or two or a file is gone as well.

> Not only that but I cannot even get any pages which would come via
> that browser.  Now my copy of Mozilla works just fine, its only that
> Internet Explorer 6.0 wont come up (or anything that depends on it,
> such as a link in email, etc.) 

> Using Mozilla  I went to a download site (supposedly 'free downloads')
> and paid for a password to download an entirely new copy of Internet
> Explorer 6.0 and Outlook Express. Downloaded it, but still nothing ...
> I am wondering if it is because my index page (I was using 'my yahoo'
> as my home or starting page) somehow got wiped out.

> The newly loaded thing produces the very same results:  click on the
> icon, it goes away for a couple seconds, comes back flashing once then
> goes away.

> Can you tell me WHERE to install a new 'index' page ('Documents and
> Settings/Administrator/something? so I can try that method to clear
> this up?  Or got any other ideas?  And where would I go to make mail
> and all the other links default to mozilla rather than IE?

> Microsoft tech support cannot help me because I have an OEM serial
> number. So I am seeking tech support from the readership here. If
> someone will send me email who can help, I will supply that person
> with an 800 number to reach me at by phone so it will not cost them
> anything to call me, and I will be right at the affected computer to
> follow their instructions.   Thanks very much!

The Microsoft-standard troubleshooting and repair script for all
problems:

  1) Exit the program and re-start it.  
     Did that fix the problem?    (If yes, you're done.)

  2) Re-install the software, and re-start it.
     Did that fix the problem?    (If yes, you're done.)

  3) Re-install the operating system, re-start it. Re-install the
     application and start it.  Did that fix the problem?  (If yes,
     you're done.)
     
  4) Sorry.  Must be a hardware problem.



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I know you meant to tell a funny story
but sorry, it was not all that funny.  I have done numbers 1 and 2
above; am not inclined to do number 3, and it is _not_ number 4 since
the hardware, which is in common to both the Linux stuff inside the
computer and the Windows 2000 stuff is working fine. The problem still
exists and I am still struggling with it, however there is one more
piece of news in this process of elimination: Although Internet
Explorer will not start up when the 'administrator' user is on line, I
also created a user known as 'ptownson' and IE works fine on that
'user' account; just not on the administrator's account which is what
I usually use.

The problem (for those of you who missed my special mailing on it,
is that (in the admin account) when I click on the icon for IE 6.0
it stalls a few seconds, then _very briefly_ flashes up the browser
program with a blank 'home page' then after a second or less zaps
it away. If I wish to use the IE browser, I can go in through a 
'back door' such as any page which presents a bunch of files, for 
example 'search' or 'desktop', move my mouse up to the address line
and then manually edit the destination line and get to
my 'home page' or any URL desired. But the clicker on my desktop will
not work, nor will any link to click on which relies on IE getting
open. Mozilla, which is another desktop icon works just fine, click on
it, get my 'home page' and go to wherever.  Now, if I could set the
various program defaults so that Outlook Express for example and other
programs currently relying on IE to operate instead went to Mozilla
to operate, I suppose I could just write off IE entirely _when using 
the administrator account_ on my Windows 2000.  By the way, when I use
the 'ptownson' account on the same machine, everything works fine. 
What am I overlooking in the admin account? What about read/write
permissions on the 'home page'?  It goes to look for the home page,
sees the permissions won't allow it to be read, so it closes down and
goes away?  What is the exact directory location in DOS where I can
find that file?  Something like 
C:\documents and settings\administrator\something else? Clues are
welcome. Look at the special request message in the special mailing
Friday afternoon and see if you can help me.   PAT]  

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