<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Robert What kind of a connection to the internett do you have ? If you are connected all the time, then perhaps you've been raided and somebody is playing a very nasty trick on you. Probably quite beyond the mental proweress of the average piano tech as well I might add. I think you have to be under 17 years old, wear funny glasses, and eat some of those new fangeled drugs to qualify for that club. If you have a ring up connection, then I would look a bit closer to home for your answer. Somebody who has physical access to your machine. All that being said. I have had a few strange notes sent to me and << from me >> with very authentic PTG addresses included. I even got a failed delivery notice from my service provider for a note I didnt send and a return note from the PTG list rejecting a note sent from my broadpark address that I never sent. Both of these had a known virus attached it seems. Anyways... firewalls....   ZoneLab is a good one. Make sure your virus control softeware is up to date, dont leave your machine on if you are away for more then a short time, good puter maintanance otherwise.... dont store any important passwords on your hard disk.... you know the rest.... more you cant do. Cheers RicB Robert Goodale wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> OKAY, CLARIFY FOR ME...Something beyond weird just happened... This morning I just downloaded my e-mail.   Including was a barrage of nasty grams.  All of these were addressed as being sent from pianotech.  Most were from a specific person on the list who I will not mention to protect the potentially innocent.  Coupled with that were duplicates galore of messages that I had posted long ago but never "re-sent" to the list at any time.  As I'm reading these the re-sent messages along with today's messages magically disappeared out of my in-box before my eyes.  I checked the out box, sent box, inbox repeatedly and ALL of them are gone!  I only got to actually a couple of them before this happened. Something very wrong here.  Either someone on the list is looking for trouble or my computer and/or network is seriously screwed.  I have a little program that searches for files deleted from the recycle bin, (i.e. directories erased from the HD), and it wasn't able to locate them either.  It's as if they never existed.  Am I going crazy? Can someone please confirm- did everyone else receive dozens of past e-mails from me, if so did they magically disappear later, and if not then who is being a tooner-pooper?  I sent no repeat messages, my last was a couple days ago regarding the model number location on a Conover grand. ????????????????  Rob Goodale, RPTLas Vegas, NV</blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>   </body> </html>