my mate had the this last nite all sorted within a few minutes thanks to the valuable info here

(well i had to sort it for him) all because he took his firewall off because it blocked him on msn what a dope

btw anyone know why i keep gettin icmp echo requests (ping) from an 81 range ip, had 7 today and about the same last nite ,zonealarm is showing them in the log ....atb marc