I was surfing the net. The following day McAfee was
telling me that I was being bombarded by pings, I have
had 180,000 in the first 24 hours.
My question is two fold; is there any danger in all of

I have searched the posts back to 10 Dec 03, and found
comments that the latest Windows XP Security Update
(KB 810217)- "A security issue has been identified in
FrontPage Server Extensions..." is not compulsory if I

I want prevent desktop icons changes, I try
with "NoDesktopUpdate" in several ways but nothing. I
thing that method works with w2k but not with winxp (my
case).

I am trying to download a number of Windows XP Home
Edition Updates.  I keep getting a message that the
downloads from the Microsoft Help and Support Site have
not been logo tested and can therefore, not be applied to

I WAS TOLD ABOUT A NEW VIRUS THAT I HAVE DETECTED IN MY
FILES. ONCE I FOUND IT I FILED IT INTO MY RECYCLE BIN. MY
QUESTION NOW IS, HOW DO I DELETE THIS VIRUS OR QUARANTINE
IT SO IT DOESN'T RETURN?

i have a problem and i think i have spyware
my internet opens up to a home page (www.searchspace.com)
no matter what i set my home page to.  After that i can
go to one website before the internet freezes.  also, we

i've installed winxp on a sony desktop, and after logging
in and using it for some time, (and especially when i try
to apply sp1) i get a window telling me of an RPC
termination error message and that windows is shutting

This should be simple to answer.
This kind of seems like its a built-in feature.  I just can't find anything
that reflects the following:
On my new notebook with Windows XP,  IE 6.0, all the latest updates, etc,

I keep getting this pop up message in one of those
gray/brown boxes.  I want to know if it's legit, or are
these people just using your name?
Mesage from MICROSOFT NETWORKS to AOL USERSSERS on

When I attempt to update Windows XP Professional, all the
choices on the left are grayed out and there's a big
notice on the right that I must be an administrator.
I AM logged in as the administrator but the Microsoft site

I'm trying to allow my "Power Users" to be able to
defragment their own computers. I don't want to add them
to the Administrator group, but I do want them to be able
to run a defrag. It was suggested to me to change

how can i make sure ALL traces of a program are removed.
I have tried to uninstall a program and it has failed. i
have tried to 'hack' it out but when i try to reinstall,
it still says its there..

I use the free version of ZoneAlarm. Is it as effective
as the firewall in XP?  Also, I understand most of the
programs it asks about connecting to the internet, but
there are a couple of programs it asks about that I'm not

Please can somone help me. I have two partitions on my drive. I
decided to format and reinstall xp so I copied the documents and
settings folder across to the D: partition, but some of the files
would not go across (for example ntuser or something similar.)

Have an application that runs swell as a Local
Administrator. When logged in as Power User get following
error when launching application.
Runtime error The instruction at 0x77e7a67a referenced