[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

Thanks, sorry to hear about your computer woes. I'm counting my blessings with my recent Dell laptop purchase, no problems so far. It came preloaded with XP. I do not have a firewall yet, though. Do you recommend one? Zone Alarm? I don't know much about them... I just have Norton anti-virus which I keep updated. It fairly regularly quarantines "klez" viruses in email attachments that are sent to me.... I always delete without opening... but you never know...

[HairOfTheDog]

XP has its own firewall if you want to keep it simple!

Go to your internet connection in control panel, right click your connection icon, and go to Advanced. Check the little box.