Finally got my Broadband up and running, s****** BT..........I'll say no more.

Whilst downloading some movies last night I left the room for 5 minutes returning to find my antivirus had been working overtime blocking loads of stuff. After much scratching of head and loads of pop-ups from Norton I now get a message pop-up everytime I re-boot.

Card heading: 16 bit windows subsystem

Message: c:\windows\system32\autoexec.ht. is not suitable for running MS-dos and windows........or something like that.

Options: Close or Ignore

WTFH.......Anyone know what this is or how I get rid of it.

no such file on my machine called autoexec.ht, I have one called autoexec.nt in that location and it contains the following

REM Install CD ROM extensions

lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)

lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support

lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

Edit the file and delete whats there and add the above. Its used by the command prompt in NT/2K/XP when you launch it.

Sounds like you need a decent firewall installed on your pc, especially when using p2p.

Someone please explain the how what where of firewalls because I have 1MB broadband going in, in about one week, so really need to protect the PC.

Although I'm more worried about the PC itself because 70 kb/s downloads used to crash it when I was on cable - methinks it won't be able to cope with 1MB...

no such file on my machine called autoexec.ht' date=' I have one called autoexec.nt in that location and it contains the following

REM Install CD ROM extensions

lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)

lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support

lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

Edit the file and delete whats there and add the above. Its used by the command prompt in NT/2K/XP when you launch it.

Sounds like you need a decent firewall installed on your pc, especially when using p2p.[/quote']

Quite right Manny it is NT.

Jason, Have a look on www.firewallguide.com found it a useful source of info.

Personnaly, I have a firewall on the cable modem, a firewall on the wireless router and run a software firewall on my PC (Zone Alarm Pro, although zone alarm standard is fine). I also run ad-aware, spybot s&d, and spywear blaster. Also run Norton anti-virus. Oh and my browser is Firefox

Paranoid? Moi?

I run a hardware firewall in my Netgear Wireless ADSL Router/Modem, ZoneAlarm on the PCs (it's free!), Avast antivirus (it's free!), Spybot S&D (it's free!), Mozilla Firefox (it's..)

OK, you get the picture, I'm a cheapskate. But it all works and I've been virus/trojan/spyware free since I set it all up.

The latest version of Firefox has fewer problems with web sites than previously, but there's still the odd site that refuses to work (the National Lottery site being one of them).

Paranoia with PCs is a good thing, IMHO!

So, I guess the best thing for me to do is to locate a router I can simply plug my cable modem into, then the router goes into the PC somehow eh? ethernet card, which I have?

Time to do more shopping I guess.

So' date=' I guess the best thing for me to do is to locate a router I can simply plug my cable modem into, then the router goes into the PC somehow eh? ethernet card, which I have?

Time to do more shopping I guess. [/quote']

Yep. Or get a copy of Zonealarm basic. Or PC world have an offer on Norton Internet Security 2005 for

So, I guess the best thing for me to do is to locate a router I can simply plug my cable modem into, then the router goes into the PC somehow eh? ethernet card, which I have?

The cable modem should connect to the router using a network cable. The router then connects to the computer using a network cable, so get that network card in there.

The router also has the added "bonus" of allowing you to make a home network...

Rob.