Cheers Neil,
I was thinking the same thing about getting a techie to configure the system correctly if I get a new one this summer.
Its just that I'm a tight little bugger, but it did spring into my mind that this summer will see loads of layabout students from our local university looking for the opportunity to earn some beer tokens, so I may get it all done for a four pack of Skol!!!
Will check the link, thanks very much for your efforts.
Alan

Alan, have a look here:

PC World external drives

We use one of these at each site:

Smartdisc

They're a doddle, quick to backup but not the best value probably. Lovely and small and easy to slip into a pocket at night.

Amaxingly cheap. It wasn't that long ago that I was paying around 1,800 for 500Mb disks drives.

I'm no expert to be able to add authorative advice but fwiw I do recall being told just to save data e.g. my docs, my pics, favourites, outlook addresses and any little downloaded programmes and do a hardware reinstall in the event of a crash because (a) probably there is a newer version of e.g Windows/Office, (b) backup everything may merely reinstall the problem and (c) the build up of minor corruption, irritations that build up on an old machine are cleansed.

Yep,

Definitely the best way, and don't forget to export your Outlook profiles, address book and internet favourites. All the Software can easily be installed again, but those settings things can be a pain.

CAN ANYONE GIVE ME AN ANSWER TO THIS PROBLEM

CAN ANY OF YOU CLEVER PEOPLE OUT THERE HELP ME, BY TELLING ME WHY, IF YOU FORWARD CERTAIN MESSAGES WITH PICTURES IN THEY COME OUT AS BELOW? !!!! I RECIEVED THE PICTURES FINE BUT WHEN I SEND THEM ON THEY COME OUT LIKE THIS, SOOOOOOO FRUSTRATING.







Hi Irene, Here are the wee smiles - Love Lynne
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Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 267.15.2 - Release Date: 4/02/2006

Can anyone give me some help in Trojan removal,not a techy so will need to be in simple language.
My antivirus has picked up the following,
Win32/Sinteri.....C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskdir.exe
Win32/Sinteri.....C:\WINDOWS\system32\parad.raw.exe
Win32/Sinteri.....C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskdir.dll
Win32/Sinteri!downloader......C:\WINDOWS\system32\woblaizdupla.exe

thanks. Steve.

Aldwick. You see the red cross because the receiver's computer cannot find the picture you have sent. This suggests you have not sent it as an attachment but as a link to another website where is has been removed or is temporarily unavailable. To see it you sender need to save it to a folder on your machine then send the image file as an attachment to an email.

O k, Seymour , thanks very much.

aldwickk

One way to send the pic as an Email is to highlight the pic and copy/paste it into your Email.

You will get this problem if you send a pic from your own PC. One way tofind out the specific problem is to right click the red square and view the properties. You will find either that there is not a complete path to the web site pic or it has C: etc as it came from your PC.

Cloudbase: This should sort it
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/about/productcomparisons.mspx

Ian, thanks.
I've run the removal software and it says no infection found, hmmm.

Just to be sure, try Spybot

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

Panda online scan is useful, I have used it a few times recently and its pretty comprehensive it will take a while to do a full scan though. Its here Panda Activescan

Ian,Spaceman......Thanks, it seems non of these will remove them, i still get
Virus Detected box from my AVG scan and it won't let you either heal or move to vault. A message box pops up saying "Requested action is not available for this object. Access to the file has been denied"
Any thaughts.

cloudbase did panda find an infection?

Hi

ive got some data that i want to analyse. The data is posted as a downloadable file on a webpage in a comma separated values excel file. However, the file is over 65536 lines long hence will only partially open in Excel. Can anyone recommend the best way of being able to open this whole file please.

fundy, access?

Is it feasible to open the data in access without having created the database first?