kayak

many thanks for the response, not too sure how to disable the internal modem, had a look in the BIOS but not listed. The laptop is a Sony Vaio A517M if it helps

pth

In wondiws go to control panel, system, device manager, modems, your modem!

Lots of options there.Undergener there is a enable or disable feature at the bottom of the dialogue box ('use this device' or 'do not use this device')

Installed the latest automatic update and my office 2003 windows programmes ( Word Excel etc) all started to freeze the application when I stared using open and save as functions.

Used restore function to get back before update and office programmes work OK.

Forgot to change auto update settings and it did it all again so it must be Microsofts update but hey I cant be the only guy with this problem surely??

Looking to upgrade my motherboard and cpu, which are the best boards/bundles to get at the moment between 75-125, would also like card/usb slots at the front and back if possible

I've got a MSI KT33,AMD anthlon 1.2MHz with 512 Ram at the moment

I've just found out what my 'F11' key does.

Jason

Here are some Reviews and Prices

DocProc, thanks ;-)

some MOBO kits HERE
I HAD A XP2000 and upgraded to a xp2800 cpu and cleaned install,still a quick PC,
iam now running just my charts on this on 4 screens,a little internet when buying to compare,multiscreens come in handy for that,not alot diff in speed on the web to my new built PC, for the power hungry programes and gaming i use the new one,that is high ish spec duel core based.
depends on what you will use it for,

All,

My PC is constantly having intrusion attempts blocked by my firewall.

The IP address doing this is always the same, 62.190.233.86

There are some numbers in brackets after the IP address, and these vary, (4419), (3106), and (2041) after each attempt.

Is there anyway this IP can be traced using free online tools please?

I have tried Geektools, and the reply it gave was ambiguous, although it seems the other user is a Pipex user.

Someone told me there is a way to trace the IP address to the town / area it originates in, and if possible, I would like to do this.

Any help appreciated.


% Note: the default output of the RIPE Whois server
% is changed. Your tools may need to be adjusted. See
% http://www.ripe.net/db/news/abuse-proposal-20050331.html
% for more details.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html

% Note: This output has been filtered.
% To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to '62.189.0.0 - 62.190.255.255'

inetnum: 62.189.0.0 - 62.190.255.255
org: ORG-UA24-RIPE
netname: UK-PIPEX-20000720
descr: UUNET
country: GB
admin-c: WERT1-RIPE
tech-c: UPHM1-RIPE
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: AS1849-MNT
mnt-routes: AS1849-MNT
mnt-routes: WCOM-EMEA-RICE-MNT
mnt-irt: IRT-MCI-GB
source: RIPE # Filtered

role: PIPEX Hostmaster
address: UUNET UK
address: Internet House
address: 330 Science Park
address: Milton Road
address: Cambridge
address: CB4 4BZ
address: UK
phone: +44 1223 250122
fax-no: +44 1223 250133
e-mail: support@uk.uu.net
remarks: trouble: Telephone number available 24x7
admin-c: WERT1-RIPE
tech-c: WERT1-RIPE
nic-hdl: UPHM1-RIPE
remarks: UUNET UK
mnt-by: AS1849-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

% Information related to '62.190.0.0/16AS702'

route: 62.190.0.0/16
descr: network UK-PIPEX-20000720
origin: AS702
member-of: AS702:RS-UK,
AS702:RS-UK-PA
remarks: **********ABUSE ISSUES**********
remarks: All abuse must be reported to
remarks: abuse@uk.uu.net for this network.
remarks: ********************************
mnt-routes: AS1849-MNT
mnt-by: WCOM-EMEA-RICE-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

try this info from Visual Route this site also does speed tests

MCI WorldCom Limited
Reading International Business Park
Basingstoke Road
Reading, Berkshire rg2 6da
UK

Domain Name: PIPEX.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
MCI dns-team@uk.uu.net
Reading International Business Park
Basingstoke Road
Reading, Berkshire rg2 6da
UK
01189055000 fax: 01189055711

Record expires on 04-Jun-2006.
Record created on 05-Jun-1994.
Database last updated on 16-Apr-2006 20:10:41 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS0-P.DNS.PIPEX.NET 158.43.129.80
NS1-P.DNS.PIPEX.NET 158.43.193.80

Scussy,

Many thanks.

I found another site, but only received this as a reply.


IP Address Trace

Enter an ip address and hit submit to perform an ip address trace.


62.190.233.86 traced to: usercb086.dsl.pipex.com






Convert Base-10 to IP

TraceRoute to 62.190.233.86 [usercb086.dsl.pipex.com]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 0 0 0 66.98.244.1 gphou-66-98-244-1.ev1.net
2 2 0 0 66.98.241.16 gphou-66-98-241-16.ev1.net
3 0 0 0 66.98.240.14 gphou-66-98-240-14.ev1.net
4 1 1 1 129.250.11.141 ge-1-3-0.r02.hstntx01.us.bb.verio.net
5 7 8 8 129.250.2.50 p16-0-1-3.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.verio.net
6 9 9 9 129.250.3.21 p16-0-0-0.r00.dllstx09.us.bb.verio.net
7 10 10 10 204.255.169.21 0.so-0-0-1.br6.dfw9.alter.net
8 10 10 10 152.63.103.77 0.so-3-3-0.xt2.dfw9.alter.net
9 11 11 11 152.63.2.181 0.so-0-0-0.tl2.dfw9.alter.net
10 36 36 36 152.63.9.221 0.so-7-0-0.il2.dca6.alter.net
11 36 36 36 146.188.13.46 so-1-0-0.ir2.dca4.alter.net
12 127 127 127 146.188.8.174 so-5-0-0.tr2.lnd9.alter.net
13 110 110 110 146.188.15.42 so-6-0-0.xr1.lnd9.alter.net
14 110 110 110 158.43.150.158 pos1-0.gw2.lnd9.alter.net
15 111 110 110 146.188.56.102 pipex-gw4.customer.alter.net
16 110 110 110 62.241.161.97 ge-0-0-2.cr1.gs1.systems.pipex.net
17 110 110 110 62.241.161.93 gigabit5-0.ar1.gs1.systems.pipex.net
18 330 245 251 62.190.233.86 usercb086.dsl.pipex.com

Trace complete



I would really like to know which town/city this is coming from.

as above Reading, UU.NET

Here's one for the conspiracy theorists.

Occasionally, I look to see who has poked at my router. Mostly it's anonymous ISP users with little chance of ever finding the prober.

However, over the last few days, my router has been repelling probes on various ports from 34.168.1.34.

This is in the IP netblock owned by none less than the mighty Halliburton company of Houston, TX (Prop: Dick Cheney).

Now, why would they poke at me -- unless, of course, it's customer service because they know I own one of their fine aircraft aluminium attache cases ;-)

My pc has just been 'cleaned' to get rid of Spyware. I omitted to ask them to save program Freehand10, I have a document produced in Freehand10 that I need to open and print today if poss, any ideas please? Regards, John.

Which program did you use for the spyware clean?

For instance, I use Ad-Aware SE. It's Help section says,

Quarantine files are used to isolate and backup items detected during a scan and gives you the option to reinstall them at a later time.

Items moved to the quarantine folder will be encrypted and compressed, and can only be read and restored using the built in quarantine manager in Ad-Aware SE.

Restore quarantined objects
1. Open the quarantine list by clicking on the quarantine button or the "Open quarantine list" link on the Status screen
2. Select the quarantine file you want to restore
3. Right click and select "Restore selected" in the context menu or use the "Restore" button

john1943- Why not go to the Macromedia site and download a copy (to evaluate)

I don't know Doc, the computer place I bought from did it for me. I was so busy the day I took it in I did not have time to think exactly what I needed to save.
I'm hopeless with any technical stuff. I can get hold of a Freehand 10 program disc, but not for a couple of days, I really needed to be able to open document today.
Thanks for replying, John.

Ask them what they used. Then come back on here with the info'.

I am unable to do a "System Restore". Windows XP for home.
I've had a minor problem over the last few days - nothing urgent but when I open mail In BT/Yahoo it gives an error (url not found) but when I click on "in box" everything is fine. It began to get on my nerves and I decided to try a System Restore to about a week ago.
I went to Start and then Help & Support and did it from there. I've tried it twice now for different restore dates but it goes through all the motions and when it restarts my pc I get a cannot restore message and nothing has been changed. I find this a bit worrying in case I get a major problem sometime and if I really NEED to restore I'm afraid I could be ****ed!

There's some good stuff on re-enabling or troubleshooting System Restore

HERE