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To: SEC-ond-chance who wrote (14925)	4/4/2005 12:39:59 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 19428

Have you seen this one? Hucksters theSubway.com gets competition: Source: First Equity Group www.StockMarketNewsAlert.com Stocks to Watch for Monday, April 4, 2005: SRXA Attractive Growth Situation COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 4, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- www.stockmarketnewsalert.com: Investors should be watching these stocks closely! SR Telecom(TM) Inc. (TSX:SRX) (Nasdaq:SRXA) Attractive Announced that it has received purchase orders valued at approximately CDN$11 million from Siemens for the ongoing Telefonica TRAC initiative. Telefonica, a leading international telecommunications operator, originally selected SR Telecom's angel(TM) over a number of competing technologies for an extensive multi-service Broadband Fixed Wireless Access (BFWA) network. Net2Phone, Inc (Nasdaq:NTOP) Attractive Net2Phone, Inc. today announced that it has filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the second quarter ended January 31, 2005 Mission Resources Corporation Inc. (Nasdaq:MSSN) Attractive Curis, Inc., Inc. (Nasdaq:CRIS) Attractive Ivanhoe Energy Inc. (USA), Inc (Nasdaq:IVAN) Attractive Bentley Commerce (Pink Sheets:BLYC) Attractive Recommendation Meanings These recommendations are investment opinions of StockMarketNewsAlert.com and reflect the stock's potential to move over the next one to four weeks of trading. This analysis is done from a technical and fundamental perspective. About www.StockMarketNewsAlert.com SMNA is an information and media investor relations firm that provides a Web-based forum for public and private issuers to communicate corporate news content to the business, financial and investing community through its Web site, located at stockmarketnewsalert.com and otcbriefing.com StockMarketNewsAlert.com's primary focus is promoting awareness among brokers, investors, and others in the investment community who are interested in small and micro-cap companies. Stockmarketnewsalert.com is dedicated to helping publicly traded companies' gain the exposure they need to move forward with the development of their business plans. SMNA's goal is to feature equity investments in micro or small capitalization companies that have the potential for long-term appreciation. SMNA provides investors with a complete suite of online interactive financial data and tools that includes quotes, charts, company profiles, news, market commentary and SEC filings, just to name a few. www.stockmarketnewsalert.com offers a free financial newsletter. To subscribe or get more information, visit our home page located at www.stockmarketnewsalert.com Information contained herein is the opinion of stockmarketnewsalert.com ("SMNA") and is intended to be used strictly for informational purposes. You should be aware that SMNA attempts to assure itself of the accuracy of the information contained in the analyses it publishes. In this regard, SMNA does, at times, rely on the accuracy of information supplied to it by the companies which are the subject of SMNA's analyses and/or parties related to those companies. MP also relies on the accuracy and integrity of information that is contained in company press releases and reports filed with the SEC. The companies mentioned in this publication have not approved the content or timing of the information being published unless otherwise noted. SMNA, because it relies on information supplied by various third parties, disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy of such information. Any investor considering making an investment in any security which has been the subject of a SMNA analysis or opinion should, before making any such investment, consult with his/her market professional and/or do his/her own independent research regarding the company which is the subject of an SMNA opinion, recommendation or analysis. Information regarding companies which SMNA has an opinion upon is normally available from many sources including the subject company's filings with the SEC and various press releases issued by the company. You should be aware that SMNA is often compensated for issuing analyses, recommendations or opinions concerning particular companies. Its opinion is therefore not unbiased and you should consider this factor when evaluating MP's statements regarding a company. SMNA has been compensated by third party shareholders or with cash from the company on behalf of one or more of the companies mentioned in this opinion. SMNA has been compensated twelve thousand five hundred dollars and one million five hundred thousand shares restricted shares of Bentley Commerce to profile their company. SMNA has not sold any shares. SMNA's officers and directors reserve the right to buy additional shares of the companies discussed in this opinion and may profit in the event those shares rise in value. When SMNA receives free trading shares as compensation for a profiled company, SMNA may sell part or all of any such shares during the period in which SMNA is performing such services. CONTACT: StockMarketNewsAlert.com Larry Goldstock (719) 264-1878 info@stockmarketnewsalert.com

To: SEC-ond-chance who wrote (14925)	4/4/2005 12:43:18 PM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19428

Have you seen this one? Hucksters theSubway.com gets competition: "SMNA has been compensated by third party shareholders or with cash from the company on behalf of one or more of the companies mentioned in this opinion. SMNA has been compensated twelve thousand five hundred dollars and one million five hundred thousand shares restricted shares of Bentley Commerce to profile their company." ================================== Source: First Equity Group www.StockMarketNewsAlert.com Stocks to Watch for Monday, April 4, 2005: SRXA Attractive Growth Situation COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 4, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- www.stockmarketnewsalert.com: Investors should be watching these stocks closely! SR Telecom(TM) Inc. (TSX:SRX) (Nasdaq:SRXA) Attractive Announced that it has received purchase orders valued at approximately CDN$11 million from Siemens for the ongoing Telefonica TRAC initiative. Telefonica, a leading international telecommunications operator, originally selected SR Telecom's angel(TM) over a number of competing technologies for an extensive multi-service Broadband Fixed Wireless Access (BFWA) network. Net2Phone, Inc (Nasdaq:NTOP) Attractive Net2Phone, Inc. today announced that it has filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the second quarter ended January 31, 2005 Mission Resources Corporation Inc. (Nasdaq:MSSN) Attractive Curis, Inc., Inc. (Nasdaq:CRIS) Attractive Ivanhoe Energy Inc. (USA), Inc (Nasdaq:IVAN) Attractive Bentley Commerce (Pink Sheets:BLYC) Attractive Recommendation Meanings These recommendations are investment opinions of StockMarketNewsAlert.com and reflect the stock's potential to move over the next one to four weeks of trading. This analysis is done from a technical and fundamental perspective. About www.StockMarketNewsAlert.com SMNA is an information and media investor relations firm that provides a Web-based forum for public and private issuers to communicate corporate news content to the business, financial and investing community through its Web site, located at stockmarketnewsalert.com and otcbriefing.com StockMarketNewsAlert.com's primary focus is promoting awareness among brokers, investors, and others in the investment community who are interested in small and micro-cap companies. Stockmarketnewsalert.com is dedicated to helping publicly traded companies' gain the exposure they need to move forward with the development of their business plans. SMNA's goal is to feature equity investments in micro or small capitalization companies that have the potential for long-term appreciation. SMNA provides investors with a complete suite of online interactive financial data and tools that includes quotes, charts, company profiles, news, market commentary and SEC filings, just to name a few. www.stockmarketnewsalert.com offers a free financial newsletter. To subscribe or get more information, visit our home page located at www.stockmarketnewsalert.com Information contained herein is the opinion of stockmarketnewsalert.com ("SMNA") and is intended to be used strictly for informational purposes. You should be aware that SMNA attempts to assure itself of the accuracy of the information contained in the analyses it publishes. In this regard, SMNA does, at times, rely on the accuracy of information supplied to it by the companies which are the subject of SMNA's analyses and/or parties related to those companies. MP also relies on the accuracy and integrity of information that is contained in company press releases and reports filed with the SEC. The companies mentioned in this publication have not approved the content or timing of the information being published unless otherwise noted. SMNA, because it relies on information supplied by various third parties, disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy of such information. Any investor considering making an investment in any security which has been the subject of a SMNA analysis or opinion should, before making any such investment, consult with his/her market professional and/or do his/her own independent research regarding the company which is the subject of an SMNA opinion, recommendation or analysis. Information regarding companies which SMNA has an opinion upon is normally available from many sources including the subject company's filings with the SEC and various press releases issued by the company. You should be aware that SMNA is often compensated for issuing analyses, recommendations or opinions concerning particular companies. Its opinion is therefore not unbiased and you should consider this factor when evaluating MP's statements regarding a company. SMNA has been compensated by third party shareholders or with cash from the company on behalf of one or more of the companies mentioned in this opinion. SMNA has been compensated twelve thousand five hundred dollars and one million five hundred thousand shares restricted shares of Bentley Commerce to profile their company. SMNA has not sold any shares. SMNA's officers and directors reserve the right to buy additional shares of the companies discussed in this opinion and may profit in the event those shares rise in value. When SMNA receives free trading shares as compensation for a profiled company, SMNA may sell part or all of any such shares during the period in which SMNA is performing such services. CONTACT: StockMarketNewsAlert.com Larry Goldstock (719) 264-1878 info@stockmarketnewsalert.com

To: SEC-ond-chance who wrote (14925)	4/5/2005 3:40:37 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 19428

RE:ZOMBIE MACHINE->Net of the Living Dead by Rob Zorn from the September 2004 Newsletter There's been a fair bit of news around lately regarding zombie machines and their contribution to the Spam and virus problem. In this article I want to explain what zombies are, how they are harvested, what they do, and how you can protect yourself from having your PC harvested and "zombified." What are zombies? Zombies are machines that have been deliberately "possessed" by someone else, and there are literally hundreds of thousands of them on the Internet. No doubt there are plenty here in New Zealand, and no doubt they include some belonging to Actrix customers. The frightening thing is that the owners are not likely to realise that their PC has been hijacked by someone else for nefarious purposes. That's part and parcel of the zombie experience. Some experts estimate that there are half a million to two million zombies out there on the Internet. A machine becomes a zombie when a nasty program (usually referred to as a Trojan) is installed on it. The Trojan normally gets there when the machine becomes infected with a virus that opens a doorway for someone else on the Internet to access the machine remotely. It's called a Trojan after the story of the horse of Troy. Recent viruses such as Sobig, MyDoom and Bagle all contained this sort of code (sometimes also known as malware) designed to open their machines up so hackers could connect to them while the machines' owners were completely oblivious to the fact. While they're innocently writing e-mails and surfing web sites, their computer is broadcasting a message out onto the Internet that it is open for evil business to anyone who knows how to connect to it through the new backdoor. What do the hackers want? In most cases these days, the hackers behind the zombies are not primarily after sensitive information on your PC, though they'd certainly be capable of getting your credit card number if you had it stored there. What they seem to want most these days is to set up a proxy mail server on the machine so that they can send Spam. The world is cracking down on Spammers and many countries are putting strict laws and penalties in place. ISPs tend to be watching customers' sending volumes and closing the accounts of anyone suddenly sending out massive amounts of e-mails. In order to evade the law and to hide themselves, these hackers will use the zombie machine to send out the Spam. That way it can't be traced back to them, and someone else has to pay any traffic bills associated with the millions of e-mails sent! Some experts estimate that 40% of all Spam originates from zombies. Some go as far as to suggest that 80% of it comes from these poor bedevilled computers. Of course, the zombie machine will also be used to send out more viruses and copies of the Trojan that now controls it. Zombies can also be used for what is called a DDoS attack. DDoS is short for "distributed denial of service." A DDoS attack is used to bog down another computer on the Internet so that it can no longer function. If a hacker wanted to attack Microsoft, for example, he would get hundreds of zombie machines under his control to send lots of useless or corrupt information to Microsoft servers all at once. The servers become so busy trying to deal with the massive influx and trying to make sense of it, that they can't do their normal work and people wouldn't be able to get into the Microsoft site or do whatever else the server was there to help them do. In effect, the server would be "down." Lately, it has become common for people who have remote control over hundreds of zombies to "rent them out" to anyone who wants to use them for a day, an afternoon or a week. It's becoming quite an underground business. What Should You Do? There are several things you can do to reduce the risk of becoming a zombie yourself. None of this advice is new, but the public are slow to move on these matters, and this is the very reason that the evil zombie overlords are able to keep on getting away with it. Windows Update: The first thing you have to do (and I can't stress enough how essential this is) is to keep your PC up-to-date with the latest patches from Microsoft. Viruses, malware, Trojans; they all exploit weaknesses in your software. As these weaknesses are discovered, Microsoft releases patches that you can download to correct them. When you correct them, the malware sent to you can't do its business. The flaw that it is designed to exploit isn't there anymore. Updating your software is even more important than running anti-virus programs. To visit the Windows Update page (which will analyse your machine and tell you what you need to download) open Internet Explorer. Click Tools and then Windows Update. You can surf to the page by using windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Microsoft have tried to make this page as easy to use as possible. Have a go, and if you strike confusion, write your problem down, disconnect and give our help desk a call on 0800-228749. The call is free. Ant-Virus: The second thing to do is run your own personal anti-virus software. Actrix CyberScan will catch most viruses that come via e-mail, but these days, viruses can connect to you straight across the Internet (if your machine is unpatched), and Actrix is not usually able to catch these for you. Your personal anti-virus program should also help protect you from malware that comes on floppy disks, though this seems to be less of a problem these days. Anti-Virus software needn't cost you big money. Free software is available at grisoft.com and at www.clamwin.net. Firewall: Lastly, you may want to think about a firewall. The advantages of a firewall are twofold. Firstly, they hide you while you are online by disallowing any program on your computer from accessing the Internet without your knowledge and consent. This means that your computer won't reply to any hacker scanning for vulnerable machines. They don't even know you're there. Firewalls such as Zone Alarm (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp) can be downloaded for free, but they come with problems of their own, and people unfamiliar with how the Internet works can sometimes struggle to wrap their heads around them. You may want to get someone knowledgeable to help you install a firewall, if that might be you. However, an up-to-date patched machine is enough of a disincentive for any hacker. There are plenty of easier targets for him out there.