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Pascal Thanks for your reply. It's been useful. Cheers

Hi Could someone shed any light on my problem. We have two sites connected by a leased line. On one side they have a totally separate domain name to the other. Spam is coming in to the company addressed to a name that doesn't exist, but the correct domain name. The mail goes through various...

Hi Could anyone explain to me exactly how a virus works,(Netsky,Bagle). I know that ity spoofs the from field making the originator difficult to track and obviously people get return messages about mails they never sent. I also believe these virus' have there own smtp engine, does this mean the...

Well. got about 600 machines (identical build)and want something that will tell me whether a reg setting has changed on any of them. Thanks

Hi Does anyone know if there is a tool that can check registry settings on remote machines? I ask this because we have an incident today with a virus and it edits the registry. Any help would be useful. Thanks

Found the problem. The guys account was being used on another PC and he had changed his password. Cheers for the help.

Iain On the workstation or server?

Hi Could anyone let me know why accounts are getting locked out. I ask the users whether they may have exceeded their failed logins but they insist not. Is there any other reasons they may get locked out? Thanks

I'll check that out cheers.

Hi Does anyone know if there is anyway you can stop a mail account from receiving mails when there is multiple recipients. This is because I have a user who needs to receive 'group' emails but never gets them. cheers

Cheers for that I'll give it a try. Ta

NT4 workstation.

Hi I would like to create a script that will copy a lnhosts file, change a registry key(if needed) and perform a reboot. I have to do this on maybe 250 remote machines. Is there a way to do this? Links to articles or sites would be useful as my knowledge on this pretty bad and would like to...

Hi all I am doing some housekeeping of my WINS servers. There are 9 in total across 4 domains. I have servers in the owners list that have been decomissioned when I delete them from the owners list they reappear again after a couple of days. So i used the set filter option and found a record of...

Thanks for the help.