I was tring to help him without re-imaging his machine, but my wife and i had to reload
our machine after something attacked us and disabled our firewall.

Backup everything and reload might be the ticket.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
>Sent: Nov 20, 2006 8:24 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Calling all V-gon List Computer Guru's
>
>This may go without saying these days, and I am no expert, but it sounds to
>me like you are the victim of a virus or spyware of some sort. Are you
>running up to date virus protection? Have you scanned your system with any
>spyware? I have seen similar results with some of the machines here in my
>office. Get a copy of Adaware, Spybot, or other similar scanning software
>and see what comes up.
>
>
>
>--
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful, It needs a lot of work)
>86' (Soon to be donating organs to the 90')
>85' GL (sidelined but to be resurrected in the near future)