European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes computers tuesday september 5, 1995 inoculate computer against virus /  a  How to practice Safe software swapping by Bill Husted Cox news service i once got a frantic Call from a Friend who was con. Meed his pc was under attack by a computer virus. Weird pictures Are flying around on my screen lie said move your mouse i said. Wooo. You be killed the virus he said that s no virus i said you be turned a win Dows screen Saver  truth is i be never had a problem with a virus de spite Messing with pcs longer than ism has been Selling them. I be helped a few friends and co work ers remove for real viruses. But in my own life computer viruses have been rarer than perfect Toma toes. So stay up late worrying about the braves bullpen but Don t lose sleep Over viruses. However it does  sense to learn How viruses work. A Little knowl Edge makes the chances of a virus attack even rarer. Think of viruses As juvenile delinquents in. The computer world. They re programs created to cause problems. Just like delinquents some Are merely annoying others Are dangerous. A virus can do any thing from print weird messages on your screen to erase your hard disk there s nothing magical about them. They Don t just appear. Instead they Are the creation of programmers who Are either really bored or horribly angry. Once treated a computer virus like the human kind can reproduce. Then it spreads car ried on floppy disks or Over Telephone lines from computer to computer. V there have been a few cases where commercial software came out of the package with a virus but the Odds Are too Low to worry about. Instead Here s what usually happens a Friend of fers to copy a game for you you copy a program from the computer at work or download a program from the internet. All these activities fall into the High risk category. Of All these scenarios the most dangerous is Down loading files from the internet. Messages Are almost always Safe but downloading a computer program from an internet file Library is especially risky. That s because a unlike the commercial on line services such As Compuserve or America online no one checks these files for viruses. Y if you decide to get a file from the internet Down Load it directly to a floppy disk instead of your hard disk. Then Check the file with an anti virus program Vou la find one included free in current versions of Dos even then you ran a slight risk of getting a file with a particularly sneaky virus for me the risk in t Worth it. I restrict my Down loading to the commercial services and Amateur bul Letin boards. Depending on How careful you want to be you can and probably should Check even these files with an anti virus program before running. By the Way windows 95 s new file handling Struc Ture Means current anti virus programs won t work reliably with it. At Best they la detect but not eliminate a virus. New versions made especially for win 95 should be out soon viruses Are like Godzilla the monster in so Many japanese horror films dramatic and scary. It s Worth taking a few sensible precautions. So i stay away from places frequented by japanese monsters and use an anti virus program. Dole sees . History language under attack Indianapolis a Senate majority Leader Bob Dole launched his fall presidential Campaign monday by accusing the Federal government and embarrassed to be Arne rican political elites of undermining american values through its schools and cultural institutions. Dole attacked bilingual education and called Fps recognizing English As Ameri Ca s official language and derided new National history standards paid for by the government As an attempt to disparage  he delivered the cultural criticisms in a labor Day speech to an american legion convention in Indianapolis. The Kansas Republican told the voter ans organization that the nation s Lan Guage history and values Are under at tack from our government and from intellectual elites who seem embarrassed by  English must be recognized As Ameri Ca s official language. Western tradition and american greatness must be taught in our schools. And the Federal govern ment must end its War on traditional american values he  classes to teach immigrants English Are Fine he said but we must Stop the practice of multilingual education As a Means of instilling ethnic Pride or As a therapy for Low self esteem or out of elitist guilt Over a culture built on the traditions of the  he charged that educators were wag ing a shocking Campaign. To disparage America and disown the ideas and traditions of the  he said the National history standards commissioned by the Bush administration and paid for with 52 million in Grants from the department of education and National ends vent for the humanities slighted George Washington and other heroes while harping on some of our worst moments the Scourge of mccarthyism and  their purpose seems to be to denigrate America s Story while sanitizing and glorifying other cultures said Dole. This is wrong and it threatens us As surely As any foreign Power Ever  $ a v a x court sense a David Wendel 2, of Tenino wash., knows that in Tennis you it is behind you. David was working on his form while his Sisters have to keep your  the Ball event As  Case when took lessons Friday in Centralia. Israel starts disputed Jerusalem fest Jerusalem a Israel celebrated the 3,000th anniversary of King David s Conquest of Jerusalem on Mon Day undeterred by criticism that it was a provocative attempt to negate palestinian claims to the City. -the17-month festivities Are being boycotted by the european Union and pales Tinian leaders because of the controversy. Some orthodox jewish leaders Are also staying away saying the celebrations Are too secular. At monday s opening ceremony prime minister Yitzhak Rabin spoke of the Cen trial role the City has played in jewish his tory. My Jerusalem is the heart of the jewish people the focus of its yearnings the land of its visions the Cradle of its prayers Rabin said in a speech at the City of David the ruins of the ancient settlement that1 King David proclaimed capital of the jewish kingdom. =. City archaeologist Gideon Avni said that the controversy Over the celebrations was unjustified and that the role of mus lims and christians in the City would also be highlighted. We have one purpose which is to show the whole sequence of the history of Jerusalem he said. Monday s opening was to be followed by a ceremony at the Knesset Israel s parliament and a sound and Light show in the nearby Valley of the Cross. But criticism has come from All sides including archaeologists who say the City is at least 5,000 years old and religious jews who dispute the Date of 1004 . As the Start of King David s reign. Aborigines say army damaged sacred site Darwin Australia a aborigines accused the military monday of damaging an ancient Outback ceremonial ground during exercises with . And other foreign troops. Roy Hammer of the borr Owoola aboriginal Community alleged that an austra Lian tank ran across the site 400 Miles South of Darwin during Maneu vers in August with forces from the United states Britain Malaysia and Indonesia. Aborigines regard the site As sacred. The old people Are feeling a bit sad. We want compensation for the damage Hammer told a Darwin television station. Dubbed Kangaroo 95, the training was one of the biggest peacetime military exercises Ever conducted in Australia involving 17,000 troops. The defense Force said it was investigating the claim