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Tabbyking
| Monday, January 26, 2004 - 2:57 pm
well, crap, grandpop got it ten times! each time it said it wasn't successful, it had really gone out! sheesh! i even emailed myself and it wouldn't send. i clicked to not save it in draft file. next thing you know--it came to me. i had a feeling grandpop got it all those 'error' times, too....and boy, did he!
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Texannie
| Monday, January 26, 2004 - 3:01 pm
Tabby..do you really call your grandfather, Grandpop? I have never heard of anyone else doing that. That's what my dad's dad was called and now my kids call my father that!
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Faerygdds
| Monday, January 26, 2004 - 3:33 pm
Tabby, An smtp error means that your internet provider's server wasn't sending you back the message that it had successfully gotten the e-mail. sometimes it is backed up and stores those copies, sometimes they get jammed and when the jam is cleared they all come flooding through (thus the 10 e-mails to Grandpop), and sometimes the server is just down and not working. So...... better to get 10 than none as there is no way to tell which error it is.
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Tabbyking
| Monday, January 26, 2004 - 3:38 pm
my son's bio grandpa is definitely 'grandpop'. (my husband adopted my son when my son was 3, but we stay in touch with the bio family) my dad was always called 'pop pop' and for some reason, the kids called my husband's dad 'bumper'. even though 'grandpop' is my son's bio grandfather, he and grandmom always send my dd something for christmas, too. grandmom even makes her outfits sometimes! they live in boston. i haven't seen them since my son was 7 months old, but i did start sending him out to visit when he was 13. i love grandpop!! i am glad he is still in our lives. dd wants to go see them, too!
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Tabbyking
| Monday, January 26, 2004 - 3:39 pm
thanks, faerygdds---if i had known it just wasn't showing ME they had gone out, poor grandpop wouldn't have gotten 'spammed'!! you are right though, better 10 than none. especially this one: son is miserable at college and i need grandpop to give him a "pop" talk
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Juju2bigdog
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 12:13 am
Not sure what is going on in the virus world now, but today I received two strange e-mails in my account that never receives spam. Both e-mails had zip files attached. I did not attempt to open either of them. One of the suspect e-mails was an undeliverable notice from a message I did not send. It appeared as though I had sent an e-mail whose body had only the word "test." (yes, I know that is a clue to the Bagel/Beagle virus) Then attached to that was the zip file. I do NOT use Outlook Express. I use the Juno e-mail software. The second e-mail was from an unknown party and had a zip-file attachment.
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Bob2112
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 1:23 am
Dawg: W32/Mydoom@MM is a new virus that was just identified today. It can distribute itself to look like failed email and .zip is one of the possible attachment types. You can get it from anyone who has you in their address book. Time to make sure your virus definitions are up to date.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 7:40 pm
Yep, Spongie, found that out early this morning when the alerts started coming in. Somebody I know has the virus, and it is sending out messages purportedly from me!!!!!! I am getting notices from their admins that I am sending out e-mails with viruses. Ack!! Now I know How Lori feels when she is accused of everything but is actually innocent.
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Heyltslori
Member
09-15-2001
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 7:55 pm
Thanks for acknowledging my plight, Juju. 
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Cjr
Member
09-14-2002
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 7:57 pm
Does anyone know what can cause the clock on my computer to keep losing time? It loses several minutes each day.
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 7:58 pm
Juju, I think I got one today from an acquaintence but had his friend's name on it. I just automatically deleted it.
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Faerygdds
Member
04-09-2002
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 7:59 pm
CJR, Question... When you reboot your computer does it show the correct time again???
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Cjr
Member
09-14-2002
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 8:01 pm
Hmm... Good question Faerygdds. I'll reboot now and see.
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Faerygdds
Member
04-09-2002
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 8:09 pm
If you reboot and the clock does not correct the time, then you need a new CMOS battery. It's like a watch battery located on the motherboard. If you reboot and it fixes itself, then the CMOS battery is keeping time, but windows is slowing down. It's probably a game or other program that is slowing down the computer and thus the clock is losing time. To fix this you may need to do some investigating to find out which programs are slowing your CPU down. I have a small program called "Clock Align" that I download off the web. You can find it by typing it into a search engine. Then I periodically check the time (while online) and it aligns with NIST.
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Cjr
Member
09-14-2002
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 8:49 pm
Thanks for the info Faerygdds. The clock reset correctly when I rebooted although I had several other problems arise when I tried to reboot! All fixed now I hope. I'm going to clean up some things tonight.
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Jan
Member
05-27-2003
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 9:53 am
Dra..ever since I upgraded from Netscape 7 to 7.1, I am having funny font problems. All of a sudden all words on a page will turn to very bold type. Often, the font of the words is overlarge and words overrun each other. The slide thingie (do you like my techie terms?? ) on the side for moving the page up and down become outlined in heavy black. My whole system seems to slow down. It keeps getting worse and worse until finally I have to shut down completely and restart. Any idea what is going on? ETA:PS Why am I shown as a member only since May 2003???? I joined in 2000 and even your list shows me here since 2001?
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 6:02 pm
Jan: I've not had any of the symptoms you're describing since upgrading to 7.0 then 7.1. Perhaps if you can give me a link to a site where this happens, I could look at their page and see if there is something there to cause the look you are seeing there. As for the member information, we're working on updating all of those. There is a thread in the General Discussions area for you to post a request (if you haven't already found it) for the date to be corrected. We hope to get to all of them over time, but it will take some time. Let me know of a link to try please.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 6:45 pm
Jan, Maybe you should go ahead and run a virus scan on your computer. It may not be the Netscape at all. That may just be coincidental. If you don't have an up to date anti-virus, you can go here: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ I have used that, and it is effective.
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Curlyq
Member
07-01-2003
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 7:11 pm
Does anyone know if it's possible for a virus to disable your CD drive? I just found out last weekend that our computer has had a virus since last June (the Sobig virus) and we didn't know it. Not being very computer-savvy I didn't even think about a possible virus when the computer kept acting up, or when the CD drive started taking on a life of its own. Last weekend when I suddenly realized I was no longer able to change the display properties on my desktop, I got suspicious. I ran a virus scan through the McAfee site that identified the virus and I removed it, but by now the CD drive is totally unresponsive. When I go into "My Computer" the D drive isn't even there anymore. Could the virus have caused this? I rarely ever use the CD drive.
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Bob2112
Member
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 8:07 pm
Curlyq: The Sobig virus is a mass-mailing, network-aware worm that sends itself to all the email addresses it finds in your address book. Nothing about it indicates that it could or would disable your CD drive. Post what operating system you are using and someone will be probably be able to give you some advice on getting the device working again.
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Curlyq
Member
07-01-2003
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 9:51 pm
I'm using Windows 98. I know the virus also was responsible for the sudden influx of porn spam we started getting around that same time. Since it's removal everything seems to be back to normal, except that the CD player seems to have breathed its last. Probably a coincidence, but I was just curious if there was a connection, or if the Symantec program I used to remove the virus may have accidentally deleted the D drive. Keep in mind I'm really not computer-savvy, so any help or advice is appreciated but you may have to talk to me like I'm a five-year-old. For the last several months the computer would freeze, I'd hear noise from the CD drive like it was starting up (without a disc in it), and then after a couple of minutes the the computer would un-freeze on its own. Now it doesn't do anything at all.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 10:02 pm
Curlyq: If you will locate the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop, point the cursor there and press the Right mouse button, then left-click on 'Properties' you will see a panel for your computer. Click on the 'Hardware' tab at the top and locate the 'DVD/CD-Rom' devices. Click the + key to expand that entry and see if there is a drive listed there. If so, then the drivers are probably installed ok. If you'll look at that and let me know, I'll have an idea what to suggest next.
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Curlyq
Member
07-01-2003
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 10:50 pm
When I click on the "Hardware Profiles" tab it just says "original configuration." Did you mean click on the Device Manager tab? If so, I can only find "disk drives" and when I expand that it says "GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE47" and "GENERIC NEC FLOPPY DISK". Does this help at all?
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Bob2112
Member
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 10:54 pm
Curlyq: Sounds like you are close. It should look something like this:

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Curlyq
Member
07-01-2003
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 10:58 pm
Exactly, except mine doesn't show the first two lines "CDROM" or "Creative Miscellaneous Devices." It starts with "Disk drives."
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