Blank e-mails?????
I've just noticed a pattern! I receive a blank e-mail, no sender or subject, I delete it it and then when I restart my computer, I cant log on to my cable broadband provider. In spite of checking out all of the network connections, and with the aid of their technical helpline, nothing will coak the computer to reconnect except a reformat of the hard drive and a fresh installation. I have tried re-installing windows over the old installation but that brings no joy. A scan of all files by McAfee reveals no apparent viruses on the computer. This has happened three times now and I'm running McAfee firewall which brings me to another oddity, I get an attempted port scan alert about every 10 minutes. and looking at the log, there are three or four attempts each time. I first had to reformat the hard drive when I found that when I was connected to the net, my hard drive was rattling away most of the time and the machine was running really slow. I found a lot of spyware on the computer with the aid of "adware" but found that when they were removed, the computer failed to run.
Until recently, I was running McAfee but without the firewall.
I am but a simple man and have no secrets on my computer so I just don't understand the constant port scan attacks or the blank e-mails!