MyDoom, Cleaning Up the Mess

You have dealt with several days of slow e-mail, countless notifications from your antivirus software, and a week of news coverage all concerning the MyDoom virus. Now what?

We have scanned dozens of workstations and servers and we are pleased to report that we have found no instances of the virus on any of our networked computers. Many of you have received dozens of messages from antivirus software around the world saying that an e-mail that you sent has been blocked. This is probably because your e-mail address has been “spoofed” (taken from an infected computer’s address book and used as the “From” address in the e-mails it sends). We are not, however, comfortable that we are entirely free of the virus.

Because of the extreme vulnerabilities this virus opens to an infected computer, we strongly recommend that you run a detection and removal tool on every computer on your network. That includes remote computers that connect through a VPN or other means. Our favorite tool can be found at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/
avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.removal.tool.html.

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Definition of the Month
Courtesy of Webopedia...

fatal exception error - A type of program error that requires that the program responsible for the error be shut down. Software applications communicate with operating systems and other applications through layers of code. An exception is an error alert that communicates the problem across the layers. When an error is detected, the exception is sent through the layers of code one by one until code is found that can handle the error. If no code has been included in any layer of the program to handle the specific error, the exception will travel through all the layers, create a fatal exception error, terminate the application and may even shut down the operating system.

Pantone and CMYK colors in Corporate Identity

When our design team at Promethius creates a logo for a client, we setup the logo with Pantone and CMYK (full process) colors. Why do we do this? Here are some of our reasons for using Pantone and CMYK colors in logo design…

Pantone Colors

• Pantone Colors are easily the purest, most accurate colors that can be printed.
• Each color bears a description of its formulation (in percentages) that is used throughout the world.
• Any designer can have his/her Pantone colors exactly matched by any professional printer.

CMYK

• CMYK can be an economic choice if you are using more than three colors in your logo.
• Most office color inkjet printers are set up to print in CMYK.
• If you are having a document professionally printed in full color (CMYK), you will need a logo in CMYK.

If you have any questions about color processes, or corporate identity design, please give our design department a call at (317) 733-2388.

2004 Disney Marathon

I would like to thank the companies and individuals below who supported The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by sponsoring my Disney Marathon run. Together we raised over $3,300 to help fight blood cancers and had a great time doing it. Unfortunately, my honoree, Dennis Pyritz, has relapsed and is struggling to find a means of sending the cancer back into remission. He sends his gratitude for all your support.

If you would like information on how you can support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society through the Team in Training program, please call me at 317-733-2388. Thank you again, and have a great 2004!

Sincerely,
Denver Abernathy

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