>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.
Just trying to give good advice, I notice the same thing when I stopped using Outlook. I have a bunch of web browser installed because I have to test on them, I just have to surf more carefully with some of them then others.
Actually, I am quite platform neutral. I have various flavors of Windows, Mac OS X, and unix running on the home and office network.
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.
There is a lite (free) version of Eudora to try this with too... but I have no experience with Thunderbird. I have heard about it, and know people that like it.
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.
Good advice... same observations.
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.
Also good advice, I've been doing the above for many years.
Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net
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