QUESTION: MARKET NOTICE December 5, 2001 CAISO Antivirus Program ISO Market Participants: As you know, yesterday (December 4, 2001) hundreds of thousands of e-mail users were hit by the "Goner" worm virus. Unfortunately, e-mail messages from the ISO inadvertently spread this virus to many of your work stations. The ISO is very concerned that it not spread such viruses either within the CAISO or to the ISO's Market Participants. We sincerely regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. Several Market Participants have asked about the ISO's procedures for protecting against and responding to computer virus attacks. We would like to update you on our procedures that allow the ISO to detect a virus, isolate it quickly, implement countermeasures until the antivirus upgrade is available and clean and restore our systems (servers and PCs). The California ISO sends and receives thousands of electronic messages every day because of who we are and what we do. During the normal course of business, the majority of these messages contain attachments exchanging and providing information. One method used by malicious programs (Viruses, Worms, and Trojan-Horses) to spread is by electronic mail. It is the attachment that carries the malicious program, not the email itself. So, when a user opens an infected executable file, the malicious program is activated and initiates what it is programmed to do. Examples of executable files that may be infected include, but not limited to, Word documents (.doc), Excel spreadsheets (.xls), or Visual Basic files (.vbs). CAISO's Antivirus Program uses a three-tiered approach where scanning (detect, clean or delete) is performed on email messages with attachments at the Gateway Servers, the Mail Servers, and Users' PCs and Laptops. All incoming and outgoing email with attachments are scanned for all known viruses. That is a key element of an antivirus program. New viruses or new strains of computer viruses, worms, and Trojan-Horses are discovered at an alarming rate. Antivirus manufacturers try to keep up with the new discoveries and try to be the first to market with the updates. There are over 50,000 known active viruses circulating the Internet today. On December 4, CAISO experienced a malicious program--Goner Worm--attack
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ANS: CAISO Notice - CAISO Antivirus Program
Brent: attached is a draft memo that Lynn and I prepared. We would appreciate your comments. Also, who else do you think should be a recipient of this memo? Should we prepare a separate "Action Plan" or strategy to submit to Mike? You may recall in our meeting of Friday last that Mike committed to assess the long term situation in BA (at least I think that's what he agreed to do) and we (foolishly) committed to prepare a review of our activity in BA. Maybe we can discuss on Friday morning at 9 am (Houston)/12 pm (BA). Let us know if you have any questions. I believe that Lynn is in a seminar on Thursday. Sara
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answer: Draft Trading Memo
John, Do you think you we be able to submit a quote for the facility behind COH 5-2 and/or the facility behind COH 7-3. I am hoping to have all responses in by tomorrow morning and then, make a decision. I hope to hear from you soon. Also, if you did not receive the load profiles on these two facilities, I have attached them below. Reminder: They are looking for firm supply to the gate at a NYMEX based price. Thanks,
Answer: COH 5-2 and COH 7-3
Here is an email: We have reached resolution regarding the parking and mass transit issue. Until notified otherwise, the parking and mass transit subsidy will continue as an employee benefit. For those who have a payroll parking deduction, your deduction has been stopped. No deduction should occur on 12/31/01 payroll. In addition, you should receive a credit for the deduction taken for the 12/15 payroll. For those who incurred any out-of-pocket parking costs during the month of December, you may expense up to $89 for reimbursement. Beginning 1/1/02, parking and mass transit will continue as follows: WTC Parking: You should receive your parking pass in the mail. Payroll deductions will begin on the 1/15/02 paycheck. (No Action Req'd) Outside Parking Lots: Park at lot of your choice and pay out of pocket. Request reimbursement of up to $89 per month. (No payroll parking deduction will occur) Tri-Met and MAX employees: Passes are available for January. If you would like to pick up your pass, please see Debra Davidson. NOTE: Extra Tri-Met passes are available. If you would like to select mass transit as your parking option, please notify either Grace or myself before Friday, 12/21/01 EOB and we will insure a monthly pass is available. Validations: We will no longer validate parking passes, however, you are able to reimburse up to $89 per month for daily parking. If you have any questions, please let us know! ENA Human Resources Julie Kearney 503) 464-7404 Grace Rodriguez 503) 464-8321
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A: Parking & Mass Transit Resolution
Q: Dear All, Please test the Stage Release of PortCalc version 4.2.1s1 and let us know of the results. The executable is /stage/egs-home/ermt/bin/pwrcalc_slr New Features: Version 4.2.1s1 Changes Affecting All: Asian strip Fixed the Curve shift numbers in the adhoc table. Index Option Break up one single adhoc record into two records for physical and financial. Basis Option Fixed the issue on the break down of Peak and Off Peak curve shift for the second delivery point. Performance Improvement Disable unnecessary sensitivity calculation to improve performance typical for hourly options. Cross Portfolio flag form deal entry is now used. Before this change, PortCalc used to determine which deal is cross portfolio using internal logic. Curve and Position Manager PortCalc will now populate the peak_hours_num, off_peak_hours_num, sun_peak_hours_num and sat_peak_hours_num columns in the adhoc table to provde volumetric information for the Curve and Position Manager. Changes Affecting Australia: Asian strip Always use curve price for effective date to avoid next-day financial true up for that day, so that current previous day value can tie up yesterday's value. SRA New Deal type. Changes Affecting VATR: Populate the INSTR_TYPE_CD as TRANSMISSION in the pwr_vatr_port_posn table for Transmission deals. Please do not hesitate to ask if there is any questions. Thanks, Norman. x36976.
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A: PortCalc Stage Release 10/29/2001 Version 4.2.1s1
Here is an email: Here's the original blackline. Leave me a voice mail with the names and I'll revise my latest blackline today so that we can satisfy Cargil. SS
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A:
Cargil Guaranty