XP and IE Question

[Colin 009]

Hi all, a friend of mine has been told she has to reinstalle IE and Outlook after somehow losing her connection. She was not using anti virus software but will be once I've downloaded some free stuff.

Any way my question is should she have to pay £40 for a new copy of IE/outlook or can she/I download it from somewhere. Does she need IE or is there something else she could use.

Shes running XP by the way.

[SMason0877]

I (as do alot of others) use Mozilla Firefox for web browsing(available from www.downloads.com).  It doesnt have alot of security holes as IE does and i personally find it much better to use.  MS Outlook comes as part of MS Office which you do neet to buy, however outlook express comes as part of xp.  If its just for email then outlook express will do the job nicely.

As for antivirus have a look at http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ I know alot of people who use this and are very happy with it.

Hope this helps

[Bob696]

Both come free with the operating system. You may need to reinstall XP to get em back, then run the web update for all the security updates.

An alternative to Outlook is Pegasus Email, its free from zdnet.com and much better than outlook (for one thing nobody writes viruses aimed at it).

For an alternative to IE try Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/) I have never used it myself but some people swear by it.

Bob

edit> see I told you some people swear by it ..... NOTE TO SELF ...Type faster

[Colin 009]

Thanks guys.  #-o  should have known they were already part of XP and to reinstall  :oops:  will take a look at the other e-mail and anti virus stuff as well.

Thanks again.

[Colin 009]

Right did a reinstall and computer connects to internet (via BT Yahoo) but pages will not load.

Two programs are trying to access the internet these are :exploited.lass.cc and pwned2.tr1n1.net.

Any ideas :?:  what to do next.

[strapping young lad]

does it say where these are coming from (within your computer i mean)

if you want to restrict what accesses the internet, i would suggest Kerio Personal Firewall

ive played with a few others and find this one the easiest to manage

sure after 30 days you only get the basic stuff with it but from when you first install it and try to do something with it (net-wise) it will pop up a warning asking whether the application is allowed to access the internet.


google kerio and download it

also the suggestion for reinstalling outlook and IE is absolute tosh!

i use firefox in work but it doesnt handle secure requests very well internally (print admin etc) so i use IE begrudgingly for that

i use IE at home cos i cant be bothered to use anything else!  :roll:

[Colin 009]

Hi Dyfed, does not say where from.  Had same sort of problem on my computer truned out to be a micosoft program that had installed its self on the start up screen, not the same this time.

[Bob696]

it might be some sort of high jacker virus. If you can get a copy of adaware  ( http://www.ada-ware.com/ ) onto the machine then try that.

[SMason0877]

I assume you are getting these file alerts through your firewall??  Have you tried dropping your firewall just to see if that sorts the problem out??  Sometimes its better to work backwards through the problem if you get my meaning.

Ive done some searches on the files you mentioned and cant find any reference to them, ill keep looking and let you know if come up with something.  

Good Luck

[Colin 009]

Thanks for the advice, have a disc from PC Advisor with different stuff on it will try some of it tomorow.