Scussy - I wish I knew as I have the same problem. AVG picks them all up for deletion but they really drive me mad. Be thankful though, my friend who gets a genuine 100+ mails a day for work received over 150 of these yesterday.

Anyone got any ideas?

scussy/Captain Scarlet

Now is most probably the right time to change your ISP, don't you think?

With such a change also comes a change of e-mail address(es) and with that comes a lot of notifications from you to your subscriptions, address book and so on.

My ISP is OneTel. I can recommend them to you. They also filter a lot of dodgy stuff out before it gets to me. This feature might be just what you want.

http://www.onetel.co.uk/index.php/internet

CS,
i have been told by a few that AVG are good and was tempted to use but i now have upgraded to Nortons 2004,i don,t think i can run them together,
strange that when using NAV 2003 it picked up t6he virus attachment and deleated it,now with NAV 2004 it repairs it,so the settings say,don't like that so know i have set to ask me,i will see what happens,i have blocked most of them what come in so getting better,also ticked the box in outlook express
do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could be a virus,
this does work but stops most attachments comming through,32 so far today,

doc,
i agree i might need to change my email,i have more then one mail account and as its only scussy that gets them i can just stop using that one if it gets worse,most are comming with .ch and .de and most are blocked,hopefully in the end they will dry up and go away,
iam with NTL and i have 2 tele lines and dig tv with 4 boxes,so i don't think i will change ISP yet,

many thanks
steve

scussy

I understand about NTL and can see where you might be coming from.

scussy

I understand about NTL and can see where you might be coming from.

Twice, in fact.

Password Windows login problem:
A so-call professional IT expert was trying to network my pc (Win XP Pro) to my laptop (Win2000 Pro), so that I could share my broadband connection.
I use my laptop to tunnel into the vpn of a company I do work for, so it is configured accordingly.
The problem is that after the 'expert' altered the Computer Name in System Properties from the company Domain to a new Workgroup name, and rebooted, my password no longer works at reboot so I cannot get in to change it back.

I hope someone understands this and can help..ta

Balerno

If your computer was part of a company domain then I am surprised that your friend was able to change the computer name unless you had logged him in as an administrator of your work domain.

When the computer was part of the domain you were probrably logging in as a domain user which will no longer be valid since the computer left the domain. You need to use a local username and password. Your computer should have an account called Administrator to which you will need to know the password.

When you rejoin your company domain you will need the domain administrator details and you may have to delete your original computer entry from the domain.

Thanks Optimist.
Sadly, due to being a remote user, responsible for av upgrades etc on my local session, I was given admin rights on my username though the vpn was closed at the time.
It's all a bit of a mess, I spoke to the administrator and we tried all the passwords he could think of but no joy.

Sorted

signed-in as administrator with no password...secure huh!
thanks again

Balerno, if it was administrator with no password on your companies domain, then then whoever runs your IT department should be taken out and shot !

But good to hear you have resolved your immediate problem.

Balerno

You will have to think back to when the OS was installed on the computer.

If I was setting up a new system it would ask me for an Administrator password and thenI would be offered the option of joining the domain which I would normally do. This would mean that the only local user would be "Administrator" with whatever password you entered during setup. It is possible that this is blank but that would be a huge security oversight.

Depending on the encryption level used by your domain there may be a way round this. What file system are you using?

Optimist ..he will be offered a blindfold and last ciggy first thing Tuesday morning (though I am pleased to resolve not having access over the w/e as I have some files I need access to).

Will follow your advice..ps file system Fat32

Balerno

Post if you are still in trouble in the morning.

Optimist..many thanks..appreciate that.

With Win XP how do I group my programs on the start menu into folders. I have too many programs on the start menu so I want to goup things like MS Office into their own folder.

Easiest way is to open windows explorer (richt click start button then explore) then click on the Programms Folder and create new folders for your program groups. Once you have created your groups you can drag the program shortcuts around in explorer or by right click and drag on the start menu.

Remember that the Program Menu in XP is a combination of the ALL Users shortcuts and those of your personal profile.

Thanks Optimist, worked a treat

Optomist.Good tip that.

Is it me or is everyone getting lots of windows updates recently?

Martini

I should check your update settings. The last batch that I had on XP were on 19th April