Phyllis,
The fraud you mention is known as Phishing. When you opened that email =
that asked about confirming your account, you set yourself up for having =
your account emptied out if you follow the instructions and click on the =
link supplied. That is a scam that has been circulating quite a bit =
lately. Once you perform the confirm you are actually sending the =
account info to a separate source other than your bank and they use it =
at their own will to clean you out. Blocking it was the best thing you =
could do along with contacting your bank and I would not stop there. =
Double check with your bank and make sure measures are put in place to =
verify that it is you who is actually the one involved in the account =
activity so that you will not wind up in the poor house.

--=20
Brian A.

Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

"Phyllis" wrote in message =
...
Something similar happened to me just the other day. Your problem =
might not
have the simple fix that mine did, but my problem was caused by Norton
Internet Security firewall blocking Explorer access to the internet. =
I had
opened up an e-mail from what looked like my bank (US Bank) asking for =
me to
confirm my account info (I called the bank and they said it was fraud =
and
for me to forward it to them). Anyway, while I had the e-mail open =
trying
to forward it, Explorer kept trying to access the internet so I kept
blocking it until after about 8 or 10 times it quit asking. The next =
time I
tried to access the internet it wouldn't work, I finally thought to =
check
the firewall to see what the program setting for Explorer was and it =
was
reset to always block. I said all of that to say this, if you have =
Norton
firewall check the program setting for your Explorer.
=20
"barry" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know how to, or where to find detailed
instructions for removing windows 98 and then reinstalling
it? Is this called reformatting, or is that something
different? Something is blocking my browser from the
internet and I have uninstalled every program even closely
related. The tech guy for my router says the problem is
likely embedded itself and has remained even after
uninstall. (the computer is communication with the
internet but the browser is still dead)