Maddoctor

I share your concern but you may as well play along with them. It may well work, and if it doesn't, it will be no harder to sort out.

SC, a couple of minor points to add to the above. If you do need to rewire then I would suggest that you use Cat 6 at least, you don't really need it now but its a higher spec cable and will be useful next time you upgrade your network.

Also I would avoid P2P in a business environment. Its harder to control and backup and with the amount of malware around now you need to have as much control as possible. However your main business application is important here, is it multi-user? where does it keep its data? how is the data backed up?

Re wireless make sure you implement as much security as you can.

Try and plan the upgrade for the whole company upfront even if you are not implementing it all at once. Working out what you want to do in advance will be worthwhile.

If your in Kent/Sussex, I could pop in and have a look and give some free advise if you want.

maddoctor, what mail client are you using? Outlook Express? Webmail?

Spaceman, thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I'm in Teesside so the offer is much appreciated but I won't be able to take you up. The application we use is a multiuser but simple one where the program and data are all kept on one machine and terminals can access it. I don't think it would cope with more than a two or three accessing it - however it'll soon be history anyway.

spaceman , I believe its webmail. In internet options OE is grayed out

maddoctor, strange, I dont really have enough info to offer a suggestion. BT/Yahoo should allow you to adda attachements and anyway this sounds like a confiog probem, however I do not use the web interface.

I suggest you setup OE from scratch to handle btyahoo mail. There are config details on the btyahoo web page and there may be other help info there as well.

maddoctor. I use BT/Yahoo. I have had no problems attaching documents, mail etc. All my settings use BT/Yahoo as default.

Have you tried using the Help facilities on BT or Yahoo? They usually guide you through all stages quite well.

spaceman . yes very strange and hoped somebody would shed some light. Reluctant to use OE as never worked properly when i was with wanadoo

I wouldn't touch OE after using Yahoo mail. It's excellent. I particularily like the disposeable email feature and the fact that all my mail is stored off-site.

7th floor , can you shed some light on the attachment problem i outlined above? since you are using yahoo mail

maddoctor: The 'Attach Files' works fine on mine so I can only suggest you click the 'Yes' button to make Yahoo your default. It can always be reversed as Optimist says.

If you're on BTYahoo why wouldn't you want it as your default anyway?

Good luck

7th floor , as i have said before with no IT support within 20 miles i am always reluctant to press anything unless i am sure of the result!

maddoctor: In for a penny ........

Seriously, with the expert guys on this thread (not me I hasten to add) you'd be able get your email defaults back to where you began I would imagine.

Another thought : From the file itself (I use MS Word) have you tried using the 'File' - 'Send To' - 'Mail Recipient (As Attachment)' instead of direct from the email?

" .......reluctant to press anything unless i am sure of the result" Are you a barrister? I thought you was Harold Shipman :-)

Spaceman , have looked at alternatives but ssrt want me to send a pile of files and one at a time would not have been suitable

my description of my location might suggest I am in solitary but it only feels like that here in the winter :-)))

ZDNet UK
January 28, 2005, 18:25 GMT

"
The organisation that protects the UK's critical national infrastructure has warned users to prepare for the MySpooler worm, which targets weakly-protected Windows servers running MySQL.

The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) has issued an alert over the MySpooler worm reported yesterday, which threatens Windows servers with weak passwords for root access to MySQL.

NISCC, which was set up to minimise risk to the UK's critical national infrastructure from electronic attacks, posted the warning on its Web site after its Australian counterpart AusCERT alerted users to the worm. It highlighted that the worm's most destructive feature is its potential ability to facilitate massive distributed-denial-of-service attacks.

..."

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39185935,00.htm

This is for any other IT pros out there.

A friend of mine is IT manager for a major UK company, he recently has an IT security audit done at the request of his Manager. The Audit came back OK but had a comment that there were to many FTP rules in his Firewall. He was a bit confused by this and asked for an explanation. The auditor reported that he had about 30 rules for FTP in his firewall but that the US branch of his company had only one.

My mate checked the US firewall and the auditor was right it only had one ftp rule, "anyone on the US domain could ftp to anyone else anywhere", my mates 30 were a bit more restrictive.

Comforting to know that IT security audits are now being carried out by monkeys !

Tim: I'd love to know what your mate's firm paid for that security audit. I need to check our rates . . .

Just found this in my junkmail..

kelvint@garban.co.za Symantec AVF detected a repairable/quaran...

Help required please folks,i have Meta Stock version 8 and a eod data provider www.eodata.com but aint got a clue on how to get them to work together ie downloading data it says it can download ASC 7 or 8 line what the heck that means and aint got a clue about the rest :-(

So bottom line,can some kind sole walk us through here please !!!!

Many thanks

Mega...

Help!! I run XP and recently updated Norton Anti Virus. However I cant receive or send any emails now. I get a little box popping up which says RULES AUTOMATICALLY CREATED FOR THE PROGRAM SYMANTIC USER SESSION. When i disable Norton Firewall email is ok so its something to do with that but i dont know what to do!!!