Hi everyone, Linda Montanaro has that the Licking County Genealogical Society furnish a brief message regarding the activities at the LCGS Computer Interest Group meetings. The LCGS CIG met on Sunday, June 20th at 2pm with Ron Trager, Computer Chairperson leading the roundtable discussion. Because of Sunday being Father's Day there were only 5 attendees. Discussion covered the following topics: 1. Zip and Unzip utility software programs - specifically WinZip. WinZip can be downloaded from http://www.winzip.com/ PKZip is another popular Zip and Unzip utility program and can be downloaded from http://www.pkunzip.com/ 2. The integration of the holdings of the Licking County Genealogical Society into the online catalog of the Newark Public Library. Some LCGS material is already entered into the online catalog of the Newark Public Library. You can search the online catalog of the Newark Public Library from http://newark.lib.oh.us/ Note: The Newark Public Library is in the process of building a new building and when complete the Licking County Genealogical Society's Library will be moved into the new building. The holdings of LCGS will be part of the Newark Public Library's Catalog but ownership will be retained by LCGS. This will make the holdings of LCGS more available to the public. 3. Computer Chairperson, Ron Trager noted that the current issue of Missing Links will be the last issue. Missing Links is a Weekly Newsletter for Genealogists and the last issue is Vol. 4, No. 25, 18 June 1999; Circulation: 21,325+ . Missing Links has been produced by Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley since 1996. BACK ISSUES OF MISSING LINKS ARE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD from ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/mlnews/ 4. Discussion was also held regarding the "virus" worm Happy99.exe which had infected the computer of one our members. This is a Worm. For a story on ZDnet: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2208275,00.html For info on it, you can check: http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/ska.htm NAME: Win32/Ska.A ALIAS: Happy99, WSOCK32.SKA, SKA.EXE, I-Worm.Happy, PE_SKA SIZE: 10000 Win32/Ska.A is a Win32-based e-mail and newsgroup worm. It displays fireworks when executed first time as Happy99.exe. (Normally this file arrives as an e-mail attachment to a particular PC, or it is downloaded from a newsgroup.) How to get rid of it is also listed on the site, in case. For information on virus updates, hoaxes, etc. go to: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7933/virus-98.html ------- More next month. -- Bill Johns, member of Licking County (Ohio) Genealogical Society, Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. Visit the Licking County Genealogical Society Web Site at: http://newark.lib.oh.us/lcgs/index.html , E-Mail: lcgs1@juno.com Visit the Licking County USGenWeb site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohlickin/ Visit my Home Page at: http://pages.prodigy.net/billjohns/index.htm and also at: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/j/o/h/William-A-Johns/index.html