>James V. Bacus wrote: >Change your email software to Eudora... http://www.eudora.com/
It sounds like someone's having a sly dig at Microsoft but the reality is that if you stop using Microsoft's Outlook/Outlook Express and their Internet Explorer web browser then lots of bad things that happen to your computer will mysteriously stop happening.
Since Eudora's a commerical package you might want to experiment with Mozilla's offerings -- the Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail program. (www.mozilla.org). Try downloading Thunderbird and running it to see if the 17 free mails go away.
You might try bugging Symantec (Norton)......I have seen updates of their software behaving very badly, up to and including causing a system to lock up completely.
The best security you can buy for your computer is an external router, one of those Linksys boxes or similar. They're not that easy or rewarding to hack and they remove the firewall from your computer. Software like firewalls just doesn't integrate well with Windows -- the fact that companies can do it at all is almost miraculous -- so its likely to be imperfect as best, it better to move the functionality to a system that's better able to handle (the router). If you then run the non-Microsoft mail and browser software with appropriate (default) settings you'll find that a lot of the problems and junk -- popups, junk mail and the like -- will just go away. You may lose a tiny bit of functionality -- I can't play some streaming video in the Firefox browser, for example -- but its a small price to pay to have a working computer.
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