I had a very similar thing happen on my Yahoo mail account a couple of months ago, as did someone else I know on their hotmail. I only realised mail had been sent out by the undelivered messages bouncing back from defunct addresses on my list. I'm ultra cautious when it comes to anti-virus/malware so I was puzzled how it could happen. All I could think of was shortly before, I had clicked on one of those irritating 'chat requests' which are obviously spam to delete it, but  I didn't quite hit the X, and it opened. I remember spending ages going through all the settings to try and stop these spam chats for good, but yahoo in their wisdom don't make it easy. The first thing I did was change my password. I did the usual anti-virus scans but nothing showed up. That was the only occurence, fortunately. Presumably the scum behind these viruses are able to easily adapt them for yahoo, hotmail and gmail.

Thanks for letting us know what fixed it so others can try that before asking the same thing.  :hug2:

I tried Google and Bing before posting here.

I can't wait for RIM's Blackpad, so I can crunch numbers on the subway in excel…lol Seriously though, I am interested in how is will stack up against the Ipad.

@kg87: I dont believe this is a good idea at all. I assume your view is that of a consumer? If you were to invest in a company would you buy Intel or AMD?

hai guys, im new to the forum. if you can't afford a dedicated high bandwidth line, then why not go down the route of a seedbox? they start at about 12 euros a month, and save you money not having to have a pc/server on all the time. im not sure what other peoples views are regarding seed boxes, but having one for the previous month has made a huge difference to my ratios. best thing aswell, you access it via SSH so its completely secure. just my 2c

You mean you don't want µtorrent to open the dialogue box for you to choose which files to download, correct ? If so, there is an option the Preferences under the Downloads tab which says "Show a window that displays the files inside the torrent" - uncheck that so that the torrent goes directly into the list. Or did you mean you want the torrent to start directly in µtorrent without being saved in My Documents ? In this case, when you click the torrent to download choose the option "Open with" in Firefox when it prompts you on whether you want to save or open.

^ So, what did the technician say was the problem?

Dear aaliass, Thank you so much for your help. Yes, this is what I lookd for. A colleague of mine showed me the function but she is not able to do it either, her son did it for her when she wrote her books, and she thought she would be able to help me but she buggered up my word document  ;D Thanks again. I tried everything step by step as it is described and now I am reporting to you that I MANAGED! (I'm developing in computing slowly but steadily – thanks to you, guys for your help!)

@mgr: @looselips: I'm confused by your first method but have tried ifo editor and keep getting errors. I downloaded dvdlab but have no clue how to work it. I tried another program that's supposed to automatically fix it called fixvts & vobblanker and now it will play for like 42 minutes then freeze. That method is really easy: move (from the VIDEO_TS folder) all files with an IFO extension (*.IFO) to a safe place elsewhere (not to damage them) and copy or rename all files with extension .BUP to the same name with extension .IFO (copy *.BUP *.IFO) There should be a BUP file for every IFO file when the rip was ok (like VIDEO_TS.IFO/BUP, VTS_01_0.IFO/BUP and so on). My second suggestion (IfoEdit) : as I said before: you need good knowledge of the structure to use IfoEdit. DVDLAB2: after creating a new project select "File" -> Attach external VTS (with the existing VTS_XX_y.IFO files) and try to compile the resulting DVD. As a last resort I can offer you: upload your current DVD rip (with the error) and send me a PM. I can move the torrent file to a hidden section and can download your files and I'll hope I can find out what is wrong For that solution I need the "unrepaired files" though - not the files after you applied fixvts and/or vobblanker. I'll probably just upload it for you. I did move the ifo/bup files to a new folder but didn't know what to do after that.

I understand that, but that's not what I meant. The files are there, even though I deleted them. When you delete a file, it should disappear from the hard drive screen and show up in the recycling bin.  In my case, the files are still showing on my hard drive and not in the recycling bin.

Hi SimonSaid, Thanks a lot for your reply! I have tried lynx, elinks and w3m, no luck with any of them I'm not into linux so I don't know what would be better to use. I'll try to find that auto-refresh option! Cheers

Technically it's S-ATA but everyone just uses SATA. SATA is the new way of connecting components inside a computer.  Well, not new exactly, it's already on it's 3rd generation. Serial ATA {don't know what ATA stands for} is much faster and more stable than PATA or Parallel ATA, which is being phased out. Another good thing about SATA is that the the cables are much smaller than their PATA counter parts.  This helps keep the inside of your computer tidy which increases air flow, so you get an extra bonus there as well.

You need to obtain Microsoft's "hotfix" for this. Instructions and a link to download the hotfix is available from this page: hxxp://support.microsoft.com/kb/840781 (Click on "View and request hotfix downloads" at the top of the page to get the hotfix).

Check the file sizes of your converted files, chatman. The ISO standard for DVDs does not allow any single file to exceed 2 GB in size (that's why the 3.65 GB original was split into two files in the first place). Although a standard DVD can hold up to 4.7 GB of data, no single file on the disk may be greater than 2 GB.  Even a long play DVD movie of 4.7 GB is stored on the DVD as a collection of smaller "chapter" files. You don't see that when the movie plays, because the files are usually called sequentially, without any prompt from you. Your burner program may be refusing to write to the DVD because it can't, if you are trying to burn files > 2 GB. Some burner programs won't warn you of this ahead of time, and will attempt to burn the first 2 GB of data to the disk, then the program will hang or crash.

@raphjd: If you keep your computer fully updated with the previous automatic updates, it should only take about 15 minutes {including below}. It will need 1 automatic reboot and 1 manual full shut down to finish. cool, thank you

@trentreviso: ^ Thanks, twinkletoes! I left the other place at the request of a moderator, who felt I was too opinionated. We like opinions here. The only people that are "asked to leave" are people that break the forum rules; ie flaming.  I only know of 1 person who was banned for that in 3 years.

hello. yes, technically you got the point about proxies. no worries, you may use them for anonymization of your transfers. however, there may occure some transfer problems because of the sake of BT protocol which is designed to accept only one connection at a time from the same IP address. nonetheless, some clients have this option variable (like uTorrent) and you can enable or disable the allowance of multiple connections from the same IP address but also you have to be accepted by the other side. uTorrent in default is set to reject multiple connections. this shouldn't cause a big harm to a swarm, still in the theoretical model of all peers with the same IP address this would cause freezing of all transfers.

@trentreviso: @Halfang: I have used mac os x, and linux (ubuntu, badger something? about 3 years ago). And I still prefer windows over those ones. I think Breezy Badger  may have been back before I was born! that one flaming hell, 5.10, released 2005-10-13 I FEEL OLD NOW THANK YOU

I don't know about other countries, but in the UK, you can get a cheap OEM version of an operating system by buying it with another computer part; ie a new hard drive. If you need to upgrade your computer anyway, this helps save a bunch of money on the full cost of the operating system.