I'd just like the most layperson-friendly site to learn about
encrypting my hard drive.  (I realize encrypting a hard drive that has
been compromised will require me to wipe it out; I'm getting so d&*m
sick and tired of wiping out my hard drive.)

WinXP 32 up to date (including WMF).  AMD socket 754 Athlon 64/Sempron,
ASROCK K8, 1689 mobo, ZoneAlarm firewall & privacy with Symantec NAV 2005 AV
both up to date.
Last evening the WMD upgrade was installed & reboot.  Later, scheduled DANTZ

Just recently my father accidently clicked something he didn't mean to
while accessing his Windows Media Player.  He called me from the East
Coast immediately. Unfortunately, I'm on the Pacific Coast and he woke
me up at 6:00am.  He tried to tell me what was wrong and I tried to

What would cause my Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to
stop running? I have been using it for about a year but now notice it has
stopped. When I try to resart it, I get a message error5:access denied.
Using Win XP (home) SP2. About a year ago I "removed" my ...

I lost my pasword  I'm always trying to log into and  it's impossible .
I don't know wether the problem is with my username or password , since
my last changing it was on 31th/12/2005 and after filling  up that form
with my second e-mail and secret word even so there's no effective

have my own user set for admin and internet explorer works fine, if someone
else tries to use system they must log in as limited. internet explorer never
opens and generates the following error message...
Event Type:    Error

I am running XP Pro, unable to access msconfig or sys restore, it says I may
not be signed on as Admin which I am, any ideas, looks like virus??

I am running XP, SP2 and want to password protect my MS Security Center so
hackers stop breaking in online and disabling it.  Is this possible?

If I have a machine's Automatic updates set to update at a certain time but
the account is a user account and logged in will XP install the critical
update anyway?  This is just a general question
I had installed the Microsoft patch on my machine at work immediately in the

  Does MivroSoft have a  removal tool for WinFixer?
Iv'e runAdAware,Spybot,Beta,Yahoo.and AVAST, but notheing seems to get rid
of this thing.
robert

Running XP Pro. Have I been virused? Cant get into the text window when I
want to type a new email. Equally the text cannot be displayed in any of the
old 'sent' emails. Can click on the toolbars and to/cc these accept text bu
the main wondow is just blank. Even the cursor is not ...

We are using WIN XP Pro SP2 on all our work stations. However, because of the
much simpler file sharing in WIN 98SE, we continue using a single WIN 98SE
workstation on the network as our "document server".
Each network user has a folder (some with one or more sub-folders) on the

Aloha- I just bought NAV 2006 and it has basically done a fine job of
removing spyware and viruses from my computer. There are still 16
spyware/adware threats (all by the names of Adware.MXTarget.B and
Adware.BetterInternet) that NAV detects. When I run the removal program on

for some reason, when i start up my computer, my system 32 folder always opens.
how can i fix this?

Capacitors on a IMPERIAL GLA have expanded and causing problems????????