For no apparent reason I am suddenly getting pop-
up ,essages that appear with a banner "Messenger Service"
inviting me to buy the software to stop these damn things
continually appearing!

Should I install Zonealarm on my computer?  I want to
prevent pop ups on my computer and want to know what
would be the best program to prevent them.

Hi group,
I'm on a XP Pro machine in a Windows 2000 domain.  I'm a domain admin, and
the domain admins group is in the local admin group on my machine.  I am
unable to view the application or system event logs.  "Unable to complete

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Somehow the virus W95.Spaces.1445 has entered my computer,
my Norton Virus check could not delete it. On their site
they tell me 'it can not work on XP' If so why did it try

XP Home Edition does not allow me to make folders private
so others cannot view them.  Can I enable this option?

I have loaded a media program which keeps accessing the
net. It would bring up the modem connection box whenever I
start the computer. How do  stop the porgram from
hijacking my modem connection. I have Zone alarm and

I'm running into a problem where the task scheduler
stops working.  Nothing tells me that it's not working
other than I observe that the given task has not run when
it was supposed to run.  For example, I can use the wizard

How can I protect a folder so that different users on the
same local PC cannot access that? The access will be only
to my user account only.
windows platforms : windows 2000, windows XP

need advice from anyone on how to prevent Buffer Overflow
in Windows XP.
tks

I come to download the latest security patch but it's
only available to 64 bit. How does one know how whether
they have a 64 or 32 bit?.

I am unfamiliar with XP Gold, SP1.  What is that?
I am seeing it as an option when choosing with version of
the most recent patch downloads.

I setup a Win2k Active Directory Server with most of the
defaults, except for passwords and accounts. When I
attached a Windows 2000 Pro machine to the Domain I could
log into the Win2K Pro box with a Domain admin account

How do I access admin priv. when in a limted account login
screen without switching back to Admin.
XP Pro I am running and tried r>click on icon and looked
for run as,which is not there!

Is there any way of stopping these "microsoft wannabie attachments"
containing the swen virus from reaching my server.I receive around
5-10 of them a day every time I get one I delete, blacklist and bounce
them thanks to Mailwasher.Its just becoming annoying now is there

I have experienced a similar situation.  I have a HP
Pavilion ze1250 laptop that came with WinXP Home.  I have
wiped the system clean and loaded WinXP Pro (5 times
now).  I can't make any connection to the profiles on the