Is that an incoming ariel in the sense of an Archangel or a box of washing powder?

:-)

And he reckons the Welsh are thick !!!

:-)

Thanks for all your help regarding my graphics problem.

The problem seems to have been resolved using System Restore. I think I downloaded the new driver after I accessed the windows update site and a piece of software that was downloaded there was incompable with my driver software. I therefore went to the ati site and downloaded the "latest" drivers which seemed to cause the problems.

As I say I have reverted to the earlier drivers, still for Xp, don't know why they don't leave things alone!

Every day (and recently twice per day) I receive messages such as this:
Your important document, correction is finished!

++++ Attachment: No Virus found
++++ Norton AntiVirus - www.symantec.de
Attached is a 29k zip file entitled document richard_zip

Opening it would be stupid I know, but how do you stop them, they normally come from hotmail addresses? Any ideas anyone - I'm bored with deleting them!

If you are using Outlook as opposed to Outlook Express then you could set up a rule to delete it. Otherwise is it possible for your ISP to catch it?

CS, that is as I think you realise almost certainly a virus. The text is known for netsci and varients. Delete and clear from deleted items. This will be rife in the Hotmail domain but will probably die down in a few days or weeks.

for some reason i got a few emails with a virus,picked up by nortons,any mails like this or from spamers i block them from settings,
message..block sender...
seems to work as i am getting less spams,

steve

You can set up rules in Outlook Express too... Tools/Message Rules/Mail

Thanks Kayak I didn't know that.

Spaceman & Kayak - Thanks very much - it is viral and contains the W32/Netsky-P virus. Guess what, I've been sent it again twice this lunchtime, both from domain names I traced and mailed the webmaster at both of them, which appear to be respectable companies. More when I get a reply (if I do).

CS, the senders domain may well be completly innocent and their addresses sould have been used without their knowledge. Personally I dont think its worth emailing them as it adds to the virus problem. However if it seems that their servers have been used but the addresses come from elsewhere I guess thats another matter as it shows a fainling in their security.

Does anybody know how to block pop ups with Windows XP?

Thanks.

Mr Euro -Have you installed this from Microsoft

http://toolbar.msn.com/

Try again

http://toolbar.msn.com/

Mr Euro, I dont use XP, I dont think it has anything built in at the moment but I read somewhere that it will have in SP2. I use the Google toolbar popup blocker which gets a lot of them.

EDIT just seen prodmans note, the MSN toolbar is very similar to the google one just points at a different search engine.

Mr Euro agree with Spaceman - since enabling Google about 2 weeks ago it has stopped over 1000 popups.

Thanks will try. I am on a different machine and am receiving a pop up every few seconds.

Also there is a stupid sex chat programme that keeps coming up everytime I reboot. I'll tackle that when my hangovers gone!

Mr Euro, have you got Adaware and or Spybot Search and Destroy? You have probably got a hijack and you need more than a poup blocker.

No I don't Spaceman. I have installed the msn blocker but they still ocme up!

Should I get what you mention? Don't suppose you have a link?

Thanks.

Mr Euro (learning how to increase my penis size and what animal sex is all about!!!)

Mr Euro,
Adaware from here:- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

You nee the free version called just Adaware.

Spybot from here :- http://www.safer-networking.org/

If you are using dial up I suggest that you check what number is being dialed, it is possible that your dialer has been hijacked as well and it could be dialing a very expensive ISP.

I suggest you switch of the popup blocker for now and resolve this problem. I dont want to alarm you but I think you have a serious hijack problem with your PC at the moment.