Here’s a screen capture of bad software design–sometimes you just can’t go online to find out why you’re offline.
OK, if the Internet is down, it’s down. It’s not down for a program, and up for the online help files. OK, I get it–online help files, as part of software design, are easy for a software publisher to update, and there’s value in that. But down is down, and bad planning is bad planning.
Graphcat, the ultimate photo cataloger for WordPerfect for the past two decades, has once again been upgraded, and now supports WordPerfect X7, along with Windows 8.1, in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions. The installer is updated as well, and auto-detects all versions of WordPerfect, and adds Graphcat to any or all of them. Corel released WordPerfect X7 in April, and added PDF form creation options.
Graphcat creates editable photo albums. You can adjust just about anything in the catalog, including the size of images, borders, centering, naming, page size, and more. And the catalogs are editable, using WordPerfect graphic styles, so that the entire catalog of images can be resized at once, or have nearly any image option changed for every thumbnail in the album at once.
Graphcat requires any version of WordPerfect, now including WordPerfect Office X7.
by Jerry Stern
CTO, PC410.com
The FBI Virus, the FBI’s latest alleged malware, crossed my workbench this week. The so-called, and mislabeled, FBI Virus, isn’t a virus, and it’s not from the FBI.
The FBI virus is a little different than most malware–it adds the IP address and geographical location and the current user name to an on-screen blackmail threat, and asks for a highly-untraceable payment of $300 to return control of the computer. It stores that information–the screen image was taken while the infected PC was disconnected from any network.
Cleanup is of intermediate difficulty, widely published elsewhere. This is a routine removal for any computer repair tech, but it requires booting & scanning from some device other than the infected drive, so it’s not something most PC owners can clean up themselves.
Prevention: Keep all patches up to date, but in particular, outdated Adobe Flash plugins seems to be the entry opportunity that applied to this infection.