A friend has asked me to help set-up his POP3 'Comcast' e-mail account in
Outlook Express. I went through the wizard and set it up for him using the
following for the server settings [ mail.comcast.net / smtp.comcast.net ] .
According to Comcast support, this is correct.... and after I did this all
worked as it should.

However: If he re-boots his computer, the POP3 incoming server setting
changes to his local IP (127.0.0.1) and incoming/outgoing messages no longer
work. In order to get things going again, he has to re-enter the incoming
POP3 settings. He has to do this each time he boots the machine.

I cannot figure out why this happens. (New Dell Machine-WinXP SP2 Home) ...
all updates installed. He has McAfee V-Scanner with Spam Filtering enabled
.... I checked it's settings also, and tried disabling it as well ,,, but
each time he re-boots, the settings do not stick... or stay as they should.
As it stands, he has to check his e-mail via Comcast's web pages.

I'm baffled... (and so is Comcast support) .. any help would be appreciated.

TIA
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