Sounds like your wife has posted her email address on a bulletin board or a web classified ad.

TP

It is likely that the 51 emails are being sent from 51 different hijacked computers so knowing who sent them does not help you much.

The easiest way to deal with them is to create a rule that identifies the text and shunts it into a junk folder. The only problem is that they will keep changing the text.

I'm not sure whether Outlook Express supports rules, but Outlook certainly does so does the free Mozilla Thunderbird.

Haystack,

The web site works. So far I have found Brazil and Macedonia. Not all that convenient for knee-capping from SW6 !!

Kayak,

Unlikely as she never uses a computer. We set up the mailbox for ease of communication with the members of her amdram group (rehearsals etc). They operate cast mailing lists so something could have leaked from one of those mailing.

Oh well. With luck it will die away.

TP

Opt,

It's no problem cleaning them out with nPOPw. I just thought I'd be a good citizen and try to help Inspector Plod.

TP

One of the ways that spammers pick up email addresses is from joke emails that encourage you to forward to all your friends. Try to discourage people from sending them to you.

"One of the ways that spammers pick up email addresses is from joke emails that encourage you to forward to all your friends."

That's probably it then. One of the cast is very much into that and I admit that we do look at them.

TP

Every time a certain friend sends me an email it arrives with a paperclip in the messages received list although she has not sent an attachment. Similarly, she tells me, messages she receives also have paperclips in her received list. Anyone any idea what's going on? She's running XP and Outlook Express 6 with AVG antivirus.

It's the AVG message at the bottom of the page to say that there are no viruses in the incoming message. You can stop this by going to the AVG user interface/tools/advanced settings/e-mail scanner/certifications & unchecking the box or deleting the text if using version 8.

Thanks Harry. I'll pass it on.

Good morning Harry - Having passed on your advice my friend came back with this: 'None of my AVG windows have a "tools", I cannot find any "advanced settings" or boxes to uncheck. I will keep looking but life is probably too short!'

Where should she start her search? BTW its the free version of AVG. If she wasn't 50 miles away I'd go round and have a look myself.

Open up the AVG user interface by right clicking the little icon down in the system tray at the bottom right of the Windows screen & left click the Interface heading (assuming you are using the Version 8. Version 7 is roughly the same but I think the system tray menu is slightly different). Then ignore all the icons in the middle of the page, but go to the very top left of the page & there will be the same as you see on a normal IE page (File, View, Edit etc) Open the Tools option, then the Advanced tab, then e-mail scanner, then certifications & delete the text in the 'Outgoing e-mail message'. In version 7 I think it's the same procedure, but that there is a box which you un-tick to prevent the anti-virus message being added. If you go to the 'E-mail scanner' option there will be more info there.

Many thanks again Harry. We'll give it another go.

TOK

If she's 50 miles away, she could Start Button - Help & Support - Ask you for assistance.

It works very well, but her router may require configuration if she has one.

Thanks Optimist but reconfiguring a router sounds far too technical for either of us. Hopefully Harry's guidance will work.

Got a lap top only 2 months old, its just started taking ages to start, icons appear in about 5 mins and another 5 min wait til you can use it, its then v.v slow...help!
Thanks.
d.

Assuming that you have not filled your disk up or got a virus, it sounds like a guarantee job.

You might consider using this free Eraser program to remove any personal information before you send it back.

Thanks Opti.
I found something on it that let me get rid of all the start up progs
that i'd somehow got.
It now starts up fine but is still v v slow when using it.

Interesting Free Site giving some excellent Computer Housekeeping and Repair Tips at

http://www.fixingmycomputer.com

eg, Somebody in a post above had a machine with 'the Beeps'.

Here's their chart for Hard Drive issues

Heres's a link to their section on testing your RAM

http://www.fixingmycomputer.com/hardware-test/memory-test.html