Internet Storm Center is showing a terrific increase in the number of hits to port 5000, tcp, from 'commplex-main.' My Visual Zone is showing a bunch. Zone Alarm is effectively blocking these attempts, however, there are certain games and apps that utilize this port which may render it open to...

On the one hand, I am reluctant to start a new thread, with so many already scattered about. On the other hand, I have something concrete that I discovered, and it seems to warrant a new thread. As a background, I found that the "Kb891711.exe" patch caused problems on one of my computers. Poking...

I have a message posted below under the heading: Trojan Horse leading to "Explorer caused problem in GDI.EXE" I thought the problem was solved but I am still getting error messages as soon as I get into windows. It's always the large white box saying "An error has occurred in your program. TO...

Mike M wrote: ... rolled *their* system .... :}

Windows ME 4.9.3000 IE 6.00.2800.1123 AVG Antivirus Plus Firewall 7.5.448 Periodically a Dialog Box with the information below pops up after I have connected to the Internet. This will happen two or three times in a row and then I won't see it for about a month. I am guessing that it is some kind...

Hi Experts, hope you can help. I run Me with 512MB Ram Mcafee Virus and Firewall. I also regularly run ad-aware, spybot and registry mechanic on demand to try and keep my system in order. However, I Keep getting blue screen memory (?) errors such as: Error: 0E: 0028: C002EFF7.........only thing...

There's a new version out, I expect Silj will be along and fill you all in with what is new I forgot to copy the relevant info. g Joan

Well I bit the bullet & installed Sun`s java & here is what I found. Thought you might want to know as you responded to my post before. So far all is well. Thanks again. Switching between the Microsoft VM and the Sun JVM This article applies to: JRE version(s): 1.4.2_xx (xx can be 01-99)

My one-year subscription to NAV's LiveUpdate has expired and I decided to remove NAV 2005 from my computer and install McAfee. I now no longer appear to have a hang upon booting up the computer nor a hang when closing it down. I've been having to use the restart button and then waiting for...

Hi everybody Over the last month I have been trying to get a 3-y-o no-name computer running as well as possible. The machine has 224MB RAM (32MB given to AGP), 1.8GHzCPU, 20GB HD and runs on WinME. So far it doesn´t look bad at all but I´d like to go further. However, this will involve getting into...

Microsoft announced that it would release a security update to help protect customers from exploitations of a vulnerability in the Windows Meta File (WMF) area of code in the Windows operating system on Tuesday, January 2, 2006, in response to malicious and criminal attacks on computer users that...

Need to immunize with this one. Alias

I orginally posted this question in Learning General Discussions. I realize it now that it was in the wrong area. My apologies. How do I get rid of the Quick time exploer icon on the right hand side at the bottom of the windows desktop. It was downloaded by my grandchildren to play games. I...

I don’t know if I am writing to the correct newsgroup, but I am using Windows ME, Firefox, Outlook Express and AT&T (DSL) Yahoo mail. I am looking for a free copy of an e-mail antivirus software program. I have located AVG Free Edition and Avast! Home Edition. Also I found Inbox and Spamdel. ...

Hopefully the address is correct, Alias. If I am not mistaken, a couple of weeks ago you asked for my notification in this case and here it is: My CD from "Ubuntu" has arrived and earlier as they projected, but as you already had suggested. Will have to decide the best way to install it on my...

I've been messing about with my son's machine and eventually managed to get rid of hundreds of trojans - it ran like a dream. Ha, thought I, now's the time to get rid of that silly password logon business - so I went to Control Panel and changed the password to blank. No problem. Now the bootup...

From Desktop C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\USER.EXE,ExitWindows This Command works ok but the restart from desktop does not ? RUNDLL32.EXE USER.EXE,EXITWINDOWSEXEC Correction to this is appreciated ?

They came out today. Alias

Silj, Have you heard anything from Javacool the fix for the new version of SB?? I thought there would be a patch out by now. Heirloom, old and patient

Total Items: 2942 Please use integrated updating engine in SpywareBlaster to obtain the updates. Those of you not running SpywareBlaster may obtain a freeware/donationware copy he http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html ~Silj --