Morning Hilary, nice to see you. It had to be you, didn't it. :-)

And thank you Kayak.

I thought you'd like that one, DelBoy.

:o)

Are there any networking specialists around?

A friend of mine is lumbered with an NTL/Telewest broadband connection. If he plugs the network cable from a single PC into their modem then the connection works, a router is required in order to use multiple PC's.

We are trying to use a Linux based firewall router but it refuses to pick up the DHCP configuration from the modem. Telewest can't help because their business connections only support a single PC.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Opti - ipchains?

Gausie ??

Microsoft Security Essentials got a thumbs up on this forum not too long ago.

As my Avast was needing re-registering I felt now was the time to try MSE.

My C drive contains about 100 gig of data and my USB (backup) drive contains about 390 gig as it has Acronis and Replicator backups on it.

I started a Full scan and so far it has taken 13.5 hours to do what looks like 80% on the progress bar.

Is anyone else using MSE around here?

TP

Make me a sandwich!

No

sudo Make Me a Sandwich!

Oh, ok then.

I find the full scan of MSE fairly fast. Are you sure that your disk is not badly fragmented as that would slow it down quite a bit.

H,

It might be. I'll look when the run finishes.

Does it get faster with familiarity of the disk?

TP

Opti, we use NTL (Virgin) business broadband across our network, and it works fine. We have a couple of Netgear Firewall routers connected in to the NTL modem, and this provides broadband to around 10 PCs.

I haven't a clue about how it's set up though, as our tame PC / network man did it all, but I don't think it was particularly difficult to set up - other than when he tightened the security on it up so much it was slower than dial up! I'm happy to have a look at setting when I have a mo if it's any help.

You may need to degragment it a couple of times in a row if you have large files that it hasn't manged to defragment.

H,

What defragger do you use? I'm using Defraggler.

I'm on Vista and the MS one with it does not have a nice coloured chart - which made me wonder what, if anything, it ever did.

TP

I use Smart Defrag.

H.

Thanks.

I'll do it tomorrow.

Still scanning. 16hrs 23 mins!!

TP

If most of your disk is files that you know are free of viruses, e.g. photo files, then there is probably a way to tell it not to scan those files. It is probably going through gigabytes of quite safe files.

Thanks K,

I have masses of web photos and music so I can tell it to avoid those. And presumably the Acronis replicas of the C drive.

TP

Yep :-)

K,

Interesting how the map from Defraggler and Smart Defrag looks totally different.

And golly, my USB backup is a real mess. S D says it has six hours work there.

TP

SC

Thanks for your comments.

I don't mind setting a firewall up but NTL settings are another matter as NTL provide zero information. Did the Netgear units connect staight away to the NTL modem? Have you any idea what model you are using?

TP

I normally use the quickscan option which takes only a few minutes.

If you want a good defragmenter, buy Diskeeper which is availible on trial.

Crocodile any idea what is causing this.

Nov 2009 new Dell 64 bit desktop, 4 processor, 8 gig ram, Windows 7

With IE 8, Google Chrome, Firefox browsers Moneyam stockwatch appears very small with streaming on, without streaming appears OK. rest of the page OK, Opera Browser performs OK with stockwatch normal size.

Tried everything still the same problem.