Advice needed urgently

[baggies]

Hi ive downloaded most things you guys said too, spy bot, avg virus killer. i still goto get adware remover prog(where?)..

My problem is this i installed Microsoft works today(came with PC), when i went to register it i was told i had to sign up to that passport thing , done all that then i just whent onto the web and had an alert from SPYBOT that someone was scanning my PC through various ports. Says something about microsoft..Any ideas what has happened ......

plrease help im bricking it it case iv'e been hijacked

[baggies]

sorry alert was from sygate (my firewall) said it was minor something to do with microsoft registration.exe or something

[Donn]

Hi baggies, glad you got a look at that notice. Listen, these machines can be intimidating, I think, mostly because they move so fast and do things that we don't predict or use terms we aren't familiar with. But the trouble comes in when you think you can't ask a question, that it's too dumb or something like that, or too low for someone. A lot of us go through that, but on this site you'll notice there is a minimum of smart-ax% (edit: except when we are goofing with each other) responses because everyone here seems to have this interest in causing good effects for others-- and the better part of that seems to be that we all know (man, am I glad they know) that it's ok to let everyone be human and get beyond their ignorance. On other sites I have noticed some considerable wasted bandwidth chirping at people about their viewpoint on something, or jabbing at beginners for having a beginner's question and clumsiness...what else are we to have?

6 months from now so much of this will be second hand.

:cool: