I need to exorcise the demon which currently seems to have taken over my computer. Various checks suggest it isn't a virus, or spyware, etc, therefore it must be a demon.
I'm a little reluctant to drive a stake through the motherboard, but it may well happen before the day is out ;-(
I've lost my outgoing e-mail, but incoming is just fine. My accelerator programme had died, but I may dump that anyway once the annual fee runs out. It was more useful when I only had a 28K modem.
The fact that I am able to send this message - so far - without any problems, without getting unwanted pop-up windows offering to connect me to my email, or fraud protection, or offering to save it for me,or summoning Google, suggests the demon is watching and knows I'm after it.
So if I vanish for a while it's down to computer problems. Which are normally quite rare or very short-lived, but just lately have been increasingly annoying.
It's probably just time for the annual thorough clean up, both physical and electronic.
"Look out demon, Gyppo's On The Warpath ;-)
Gyppo