I keep recieving Viruses from the same IP addresses, if you are using Outlook Express, single click on the Email and go to Message-Block Sender, you will no longer recieve any more mail from that sender, useful for Spammers to!!

I recieved two viruses today, one was the HaHaHaHA virus, Norton AntiVirus Email protection caught and fixed it. The other was the W32.Sircam.Worm@mm Virus, Norton did not catch this one, because I had not yet updated my Virus protection Definitions, I openned it thinking it was something it wasn’t, I did not know the worm had infected my Computer until Zone Alarm asked me if Sirc32.exe could connect to the internet, I clicked NO and updated Norton and ran a scan, sure enough I was infected. Norton cleaned it, but I had to fix some Registry entries before I could access any programs on my Computer. So update those Virus Definitions and don’t open Email attachments. Mine was a .doc file, as soon as Word opened it, the worm installed itself. Go to my Virus page for more info.

I replaced Yahoo Search with Google Search on the Home Page, Google not only lets you search the WWW, it also gives you the option to search this site and the search pages have MikesCompterInfo.com logo on them, Cool !! You also have the CSSearch Tool on all the pages called Search this Site in the FUN Stuff drope box. Spruced up the Add a Link pages to! Don’t forget to sign the GuestBook ( : so I know what you think of the Site and that you were here. Thank You in advance.

Content Advisor Error when trying to open Internet Explorer.
To fix this do the following:
Go to Find-type in-ratings.pol-rename it to ratings.old Open IE go to the Content Advisor and open it ( do not type in a password or user name!!!)remove all the information in every section of it. Then close IE and reopen it, the error message should stop. Don’t use it again, it messes up for some reason, even if you have the password it messes up.

I added Links to each subject on the pages in the Home Improvement Section, after all that is what we want, information. Even found a page that has thousands of Free plans for Crafts from Basketry to Wood Working, pretty Cool! Hope they are helpfull.

For those of you that are on a full time connection such as Cable or DSL, you should have a Firewall. A Firewall is simply a Wall between your Computer and the Internet, if you do not have this anyone with the right software can be on your system and you will not even know they are there. The Firewall only allows entry or exits through the wall that allow and stops all others. The Best and very user friendly is Zone Alarm Pro there is also a free version. I have been using this for 2 years and get nervous when it is turned off, I recently hit the Stop All Internet Activity Button and with in 10 min I had 500 hits at my Computer. For more info on Zone Alarm go to Windows Utilities

After I replaced the Power Supply I had to mess around to get it to Boot Up, one of the things I had to do was pull out the Ram and put them back in one at a time. When I booted it up with 32 megs of RAM, I was shocked at how slow Windows was, at 64 megs it was twice as fast openning apps, at 192 megs it was even faster not as much, but enough to notice. So if you are operating with 32 megs of RAM, upgrade it to at least 64 I would go 128, RAM is so cheap right now and for the performace boost it is well worth it. I got 128 megs of RAM for $30.00. 8 years ago I bought 2 megs and it cost me $120.00. Go to my Install Hardware page on how to install the ram, it is not difficult, just make sure you are grounded ( you don’t have any static electricity on you when you handle the chips or work inside the Computer Case ).

For the last week and a half my Computer has been freezing up on me, first for just a short time then progressively got worse. Tried reinstalling Video Drivers, DirectX—-, finally figured it out, it was the power supply. Replaced it and problem gone, so if your Computer is freezing up a lot have the Power Supply Tested, have a Tech do this, you can get hurt bad messing with the Power Supply, even when it is unpluged.

I uploaded a page with the subjects covered on each page in the Computer Help Section. The links to that page are on the Home Page. Link to Page