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I may be in pretty good shape. I went to the Kaspersky site at http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk%5B/url%5D and scanned the original file online. This indicated a lot of WebHancer junk. Webhancer.com offers a little fix program that turned out to be worthless. However, I did get hold of a file called WinsockxpFix.exe from http://www.iup.edu/house/resnet/winfix.shtm%5B/url%5D . That did wonders. Got me back on line and port 80 freed up. Another Adaware scan found more trash and finally an MS Antivirus scan showed nothing.
I have had someone look at a Hijackthis log and it seems to be clear. My Google Desktop Search still indicates a network problem – I’m hoping that a reinstall will fix things. Also, the internet still kind of seems a little flakey. But that may also be the ISP. Fingers crossed.
In any case, thanks for your help. I’m going to check out Coyote’s forum now. Not that this will ever happen again……

Thanks for the info. I think that AVG may have already gotten rid of the Trojandropper. The problem could be the large amount of nasty stuff it dropped already. If I can get the web back, I can at least work on this at home. As it is, a few minutes here and there at work is the best I’ve got to research this right now.
No network at home, but I WILL disconnect the cable.

Yup. Same setting. No HTML. No pictures. Good thought. though. SEEMS like it should work, doesn’t it?

Yup. Same setting. No HTML. No pictures. Good thought. though. SEEMS like it should work, doesn’t it?

I have checked it, Al. It’s set to HTML like it should be. I did some other searching and edited my original post to reflect what I found. (I thought I’d get it changed before anyone replied.) It was a setting in Options / Format on the Compose screen. It defaults to auto-detect each time – it apparently needs to be set to an HTML setting. That’s the only way I can get it to work. Now I’m looking for a way to change the default. Any thoughts on that one?
Keith

I have checked it, Al. It’s set to HTML like it should be. I did some other searching and edited my original post to reflect what I found. (I thought I’d get it changed before anyone replied.) It was a setting in Options / Format on the Compose screen. It defaults to auto-detect each time – it apparently needs to be set to an HTML setting. That’s the only way I can get it to work. Now I’m looking for a way to change the default. Any thoughts on that one?
Keith

I’ve had problems inserting images, and in fact, any html-based object, in my MOZ 1.5 emails. I tracked the problem to the Options / Format setting in the Compose screen. For some reason, it defaults to auto-detect each time. If I don’t remember to change it to html, it ‘auto-detects’ itself over to text mode and makes a mess of my email.
I’ve checked the menues, looked in prefs.js, and even tried about:config. Anyone have an idea how to change the default setting?
Thanks,
Keith

I’ve had problems inserting images, and in fact, any html-based object, in my MOZ 1.5 emails. I tracked the problem to the Options / Format setting in the Compose screen. For some reason, it defaults to auto-detect each time. If I don’t remember to change it to html, it ‘auto-detects’ itself over to text mode and makes a mess of my email.
I’ve checked the menues, looked in prefs.js, and even tried about:config. Anyone have an idea how to change the default setting?
Thanks,
Keith

Worked like a charm. Mozilla still had a tough time reading the new file, but it finally came up. My inbox is down to a more realistic 300Kb and I can get on with my life. Thanks for the quick response. I can always count on someone here having a solution.

Absolutely, but it’s the HIGHLIGHT that’s not working. If I drag a file from SOURCE and drop it on TARGET, the context menu does appear, but TARGET is no longer highlighted – SOURCE is highlighted again. It’s kind of wierd to see a menu that says ‘COPY HERE’, when the highlighted folder is NOT where you want to copy to but ten folders above. I know it’s difficult to explain. Hope I made it clear this time.
Keith

As an XP Newbie, I never considered the fact that this is the way XP ALWAYS works. Is THAT what you’re saying, Al? Nah, couldn’t be. One step forward, nineteen steps back.
Keith

No, I found nothing. I assumed that I had some detective work to do, but after I ran Excel ONCE with the /Automation flag, it all just started working again. I could no longer duplicate the original problem.

I do have a file in the XLStart directory. I had removed it as part of my original attempt at solving the problem, but when that had no effect, I put it back. It needs to be there, anyway. There are a few macros associated with the file, but they’re working too. A gremlin, I guess.

At this point, everything seems to be working fine. Life is good.

Jan –
Thanks for the fast and incredibly comprehensive response. Amazingly enough – the very FIRST suggestion worked. I fired up Excel with the /Automation flag and it came right up. Strangely, I had nothing else to remove/adjust. *It just works again.* ????? Possibly some sort of Microsoft hairball caught in its throat?
Anyway, thanks again. I’ll be filing your complete response for future reference.
Keith

BROOKE! You nailed it! That little checkmark was the whole problem. (I never would have found it.) Thank you – and thanks to everyone else who responded.
Keith

Tried it, Jan. Same result. Thanks anyway.