TRAVIS’S GREENHOUSE IS OPEN!

Travis has been working hard growing some really beautiful plants for you this season. He has a large selection of vegetables & flowers. He also has GREAT prices on quality potting soil and soil builders with pallets in stock.

Now is the time to get your lawnmower, weed eater, edger, or chain saw ready. Bring it in and we will fix it up!

We now have propane bottle exchange, many new bird houses and feeders, pottery items, iron art, along with our increased line of horse feeds and supplies.

New store hours: Monday thru Friday 8 am – 6:30pm, Saturday 8 am – 5 pm

Check out the “FOR SALE BY OWNER” link on our website.

From the technology side: ON-LINE SHOPPING

Todd & Tina have added many new services. They are now SBC, MCI, AT&T, SPRINT, & DIRECWAY representatives. This allows them to help you with DSL, wireless, & T1 services.

Need the latest video game. Give us a call we take orders with new games arriving weekly.

What are the benefits of Windows XP over previous versions of Windows?
Choose genuine Windows XP for the systems you build and your customers benefit from:
·          Better protection - An extra layer of firewall protection included with Windows XP Professional provides greater security.
·          More control - Only your customer can decide who has access to important business files.
·          Improved performance - Automatic updates and patches help ensure their system is running at optimum efficiency.
·          Full support - Built-in Help and Support tools are at their fingertips.
·          Greater reliability - Windows XP is at least 10 times more reliable than Windows 98 SE*.
Let us help you with your upgrade today!

Beware of Spoofed Return E-mail Addresses from "Support" Team

We've mentioned here on several occasions that various viruses "spoof" return addresses; that is, they may pick at random an address in the address book of the infected computer and show it as the return address, so that you end up thinking the virus message is from someone you know.

A variation we've been seeing this week represents itself as support@[name of your e- mail domain]. The message says "Dear user of [domain name] mailing system, Our anti-virus software has detected a large amount of viruses outgoing from your email account. You may use our free anti-virus tool to clean up your computer software. For further details, see the attached."

It's signed "The [domain name] team" and includes a link to your domain's URL. It's easy to recognize this as a spoof if you host your own email server, as we do. But those who use an ISP's mail server could easily be fooled.

A variation on this one that also spoofs your e-mail provider's address claims your e-mail account is being disabled because of unauthorized access and instructs you to open an attached password protected .zip file. It provides the password in the body of the message. (The password protection prevents anti-virus software from examining the file).

If you get a message like this, don't open the attachment or use the "anti-virus tool." Call your ISP or mail hosting service if in doubt about the legitimacy of any message purporting to be from them.

Free Security Update CD from Microsoft

You've diligently installed all the security fixes as they've been released, but what happens if (heaven forbid!) you have to reformat your hard disk and reinstall Windows? The thought of going back to Windows Update for all those security updates is enough to make you shudder, especially if you connect to the Internet over a slow modem. Now there's an alternative. Microsoft has made available a CD that contains all the security updates through October 2003 for Windows 98/98SE, ME, 2000 and XP. For more info, see:
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=040323SE-Update_CD

You can go here to order the CD:
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=040323SE-Order_CD

This Week's Links We Like.  

• Ponder the Mysteries of the Universe from Macro to Micro
  http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=040323FA-Mysteries
• Interesting Trivia: Harper's Index for February 2004
  http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=040323FA-Trivia
• Visit the Virtual Mouse pad Museum
  http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=040323FA-Mousepad

Analyze and defragment a disk in Windows XP Analyzing and defragmenting disks can help to preserve the performance and general operation of your computer. This step-by-step guide describes how to perform hard-disk maintenance on your Windows XP-based computer   COOKING NOTES: What do you do will all those extra eggs from your chickens? Have you tried freezing them? Check out this link below for more information.  http://www.dvo.com/newsletter/monthly/2004/march/remedy.html While we are on the subject of eggs, what about those boiled Easter eggs? Here is an idea for them.  http://www.dvo.com/recipes_archive/day_after_easter_scallop.html   Until next time. Our goal is to provide quick announcements to our friends and customers. We will not be sending you large amounts of mail nor will we sell your address to anyone! If you do not want to receive our newsletter. Just drop me an email with “remove” in the subject line and I will take you off our list.