I have a brand new Dell PIV machine with McAfeee AntiVirus
pre-installed and currently up to date.
I have set up OE on this machine (all current Windows XP updates are
installed) for my email.
The ISP is Comcast and the POP3 server for their email, as directed by
their technical folks is, mail.comcast.net
No problem. All set up and sending and receivng email with no issues.
However, all of a sudden my email stopped.
I tracked it down to the fact that the POP3 server address had
mysteriously been changed from the one I just noted to, 127.0.0.1
There is no one else using this machine and I certainly didn't change
the server address to that value.I know that 127.0.0.1 is the loopback
address to my own machine.
So, I changed the server back to the correct setting. All worked well
for a 3-4 days and then, bang! It gets changed back to the 127.0.0.1
I have a few commercial game demos on the machine (you know the type;
you download from the company, play it for awhile and then decide if
you want to buy it).
Other then this, the only other software on this box is what was
supplied directly from Dell as part of my purchase.
This mysterious changing of the server address has happened three times
in the last 2 weeks.
I'm at a lose to explain it and, more importantly, how to stop it from
occuring.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.