Christer--Certainly could be a virus or spyware. Look forward to your hearing the results of your scans with Antivirus and a Spyware Detector....
Eleanor316--I have no idea whether this applies to the version of SFC you are running, but in Win98 SFC produces a log. You access it by clicking...
brett--Many thanks, as always. It will take a while to absorb everything on that site and links, but maybe you are right that my version of WMP...
kgprattsky--What file types are these attachments? How are you trying to open them? Any different from the way you are opening in Comcast email?...
quackbal--I have no idea whether that game is compatible with WinXP or whether these possible downloads of DirectX6 are compatible with it either...
brett--I use media players only infrequently, and when I do it usually is Windows Media Player (v7.10). I use it mainly to see the .mpeg and...
Gianni--Thanks for the links to Eschelmann's comments. I feel he really did not back up the rather sweeping statement he made about...
LEEWA42--This tutorial may help you interpret the results of a scan with HiJackThis. The most important items for a home page hijacking are those...
Gianni--If you get any response, keep us all (two) informed. ;)
rodger--Thanks for posting back. Glad to hear the problem is fixed.
Newt--I think I may be embarrassed. :o I entered BKDR_MINEH.A into Search on www.google.com and thought I saw that it was connected to Swen.A. A...
tedruxspin--BKDR_MINEH.A is part of the Swen.A worm. Symantec offers a removal tool...
rodger--If you use Outlook Express, have you checked Tools|Message Rules and perhaps Blocked Sender list? You might also run your AntiVirus and...
CorruptedSanity-- The deletion part certainly is not default behavior, and I do not believe it can be done automatically. (Of course it can be...
J.Lee--If this is happening with all images, click IE Tools|Internet Options|Advanced tab, check the box "Show Pictures" under Multimedia, click...
Gianni-- I have Win98FE and IE6SP1 and they seem to run reasonably well. Can't say I see much difference between IE6 and IE5.5 as far as running...
princessmandi8--In OE Tools|Options|Maintenance tab you can check the setting "Empty messages from Deleted Files folder on exit" if you want...
chessfractal--Forgive me. There is an MSKB 822350 . I guess it is so new that my usual ways of searching for an MSKB did not work. Anyway, I...
Drag Racer7272-- Have no clue whether this will cure your problem, but if you have System File Checker on your PC (it depends on the version of...
Eleanor316--Thanks for posting back. Pleased to hear the good results and know that a suggestion worked.
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