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Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 Overview-Now features Mobile Commerce from MCNI!
Mobile Commerce Network will be ready with Handheld Technology for Microsoft SBA 2006 - Release(This Fall)!
" Small Business Accounting Frequently Asked Questions “
" Small Business Accounting Product Guide “
" Mobile Commerce Integrated with New Microsoft SBA 2006
Small Business Accounting 2006 is a comprehensive financial management program designed for companies with up to 25 employees. It allows small business owners and office managers to manage their business financials using software that is easy to set up and has the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office 2003. You can now use a Handheld Device such as an HP Ipaq to process orders and invoices, deliver goods to customers and not have to re key the information into SBA 2006 using our Mobile Solution!
Save Time, Work More Efficiently With Mobile Devices   
Small Business Accounting 2006 shares information with other Microsoft Office programs, such as Microsoft Office Word 2003, Excel 2003, Microsoft Office Access 2003, and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update, helping your company save time, reduce errors, and be more productive."
Get up to speed quickly. Small Business Accounting 2006 looks and works just like other Office programs, so you can be up and running quickly. In addition, the integration with Office 2003 Editions makes it possible to export and share information with programs you know and understand."
Produce professional-looking documents. Combine the power of Small Business Accounting 2006 with your existing Office 2003 programs to create professional-looking quotes, invoices, and purchase orders, or manage customer contact information with the Office programs you use every day."
Track billable employee time. Integration of Small Business Accounting 2006 with Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update enables employees to mark appointments in their Outlook Calendars as billable time, and then transfer that information to Small Business Accounting 2006.
Small Business Accounting 2006 in Action
Employees with Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update can perform account maintenance functions without leaving Outlook, for example, creating quotes, orders, and invoices. Outlook updates information in Small Business Accounting 2006 in real time making data re-entry unnecessary while saving time and reducing errors. These documents, along with customer letters, can be customized in Word to sharpen their professional appearance. Using Outlook with Business Contact Manager Update also provides employees with complete and up-to-date account information on any client, enabling better, more informed customer service. This same mechanism allows the company owner or manager to get a one-stop overview of customer account information.
Want More Information on how to get SBA2006 and MCNI for your company? Click here!
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Newsday Article on fake spyware!
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Fake spyware removal programs disabling PCs
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| | BY LOU DOLINARStaff WriterAugust 8, 2004, 7:04 PM EDT
It's bad enough that spyware and adware are disabling millions of home computers. Now come fake programs that claim to remove these pests for a fee, but don't.
"It has been a big problem this year," says Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which has been lobbying Congress and the Federal Trade Commission for action.
Heavily touted on most search engines, these rogue programs lure users with "free" scans. Want to remove the "spyware"? Buy the full version for $29.95. A handful of these programs even install their own favored brands of adware and spyware.
The problem has been around for a while, but in recent months, has grown so bad that it has become far easier to fall for bogus products than to find the real thing, according to Eric L. Howes, a university of Illinois graduate student who runs the definitive Web site to evaluate bogus spyware eliminators (www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm). His site lists more than 75 such programs, with new ones every day. There are even phony "review" sites that rate bogus programs, and either ignore or downgrade the legitimate ones.
According to Howes, the authors of these programs try to mimic the name or home page of one of the top two legitimate anti-spy ware programs -- Spybot Search and Destroy (www. security.kolla.de), and Ad-aware (www.lavasoftusa.com). They also use so-called "index spam" to manipulate Google and other search engines and push their products to top rankings.
"With all these programs using Spybot and Ad-Aware in their domain names, the confusion can be hilarious," Howes said. In one case, he said, a newspaper columnist even pointed readers to a bogus anti-spyware site.
How do you know what you're downloading? The typical hysterical pitch by a dubious vendor lets you download a program for free, then scans your hard drive for problem software. Invariably, it finds at least a dozen, or even hundreds of files that represent "severe" infections. To get rid of them, however, you have to pay by credit card.
Spybot and Ad-Aware, on the other hand, have versions that are free. Highly regarded Pest Patrol (www.pestpatrol.com) offers a 30-day trial of a fully functional version before you buy.
The sales pitch for anti-spy ware often implies that your PC is leaking information to the Internet, and typically include information about your computer's disk directories, for example, or the screen resolutions.
A lot of this stuff is hard to fathom, says David Stang, chief technical officer of Pest Patrol, the best-selling commercial anti-spy ware program. "It detects some spyware but not much -- a lot of these guys are at 10 or 20 percent."
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by Joel Strauch
Antivirus companies have been warning for years that viruses will afflict handheld devices, and the day has apparently arrived: Both Symantec and Kaspersky Labs have detected a backdoor Trojan horse program that can give an attacker complete control over a Pocket PC mobile device.
What's more, the antivirus firms don't have quick cures for PDA viruses similar to the data definitions they update for PCs when new viruses surface. Symantec and other antivirus companies do offer antivirus applications for mobile devices; the companies have previously tested such tools against viruses in the lab, such as the Dust virus developed last month.
But for systems infected with the so-called Brador virus, antivirus vendor Symantec recommends deleting the /Windows/StartUp/svchost.exe file in the Windows CE operating system and completely reinstalling the OS and applications.
"It's one of the first backdoor Trojans we've seen for Windows CE," says Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager with Symantec Security Response. "It's not really widespread. We've only seen one instance at this point. But it does show where attackers are going."
In through a backdoor
Symantec calls the virus Backdoor.Brador.A; Kaspersky Labs, which also issued an alert, dubs it Backdoor.WinCE.Brador.a. The pest is 5,632 bytes in size, so it can easily spread through e-mail or as a download from a Web site to a personal digital assistant. Kaspersky Labs suspects that Brador was written by a Russian coder since it was discovered in an e-mail with Russian text.
Once Brador runs, it copies itself to the svchost.exe file in the Windows autorun folder and seizes control over the system after a restart. "It would give them total control if it got on," says Phebe Waterfield, a Yankee Group security solutions and services analyst.
"It e-mails the attacker your IP address," says Symantec's Friedrichs. "The attacker can then connect back, access the backdoor, look at your files, download the files, or even upload other malicious code."
Because of the limited nature of Brador's dissemination, Symantec gave it a threat level of 1 (on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the greatest). "It's not going to spread itself," Waterfield says. "But it's setting a very scary precedent. It's fulfilling a prediction that the security folks have had for a long time -- that the threats on desktops are going to spread to these kinds of devices."
Precautions and fixes
The big problem is that Windows CE and other operating systems for PDAs don't have the security capabilities of Windows XP, Waterfield says.
"The latest version -- Windows CE.Net -- does have more of these features, but with older PDAs you couldn't even set permissions within the device. Any data, or even passwords, could be exposed by this Trojan," she says.
Any mobile device based on the ARM processor is vulnerable to Brador, so Friedrichs recommends taking care when receiving files.
"Be careful you don't download anything or read e-mail that may contain a backdoor Trojan -- for example, an executable file," he says. "Make sure you trust the source, and the file has been authenticated."
Waterfield also suggests that corporations create usage policies for their employees with mobile devices. "Make sure they're using password protection. Don't download any untrusted code. Run some antivirus software. And keep very sensitive information off of the device altogether," she says.
Those words of advice were echoed at the recent Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas, where security experts warned that PDAs, cell phones, and other mobile devices are the next big target of virus writers.
The antivirus vendors say they are continuing to refine PDA antivirus applications.
Brador is "one sample of what we're really expecting to be a growing trend in terms of mobile computing and mobile devices because their functionality is becoming closer to a PC," Friedrichs says. "It brings the same attacks you see on the home PC right down to the mobile device."
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