A friend of mine had a Gateway computer and was running Windows 98. Started having problems which were most noticable when sending email...it would come back all the time or freeze her puter. Then, she'd go to her game sites and it started freezing then. Someone told her she had a virus and her ISP (EnterNet...a local ISP...which I happen to have as well) walked her through some stuff to quarintine the virus...yada, yada, yada. Lo and behold...her computer eventually crashed and she had to buy a new one.

She got a Dell with Windows XP. She's all set up now and she says she hates it! She says she can send email to everyone but when she sends something to me it keeps coming back to her. I haven't had an email from her since just before the crash...which could be a good thing cause she'd usually bombard me with silliness...but that's another story...lol! Also, she said she'll get some emails from other peeps 6-7 times or more...after she's deleted it each and every time. It just keeps coming back to her. She still has the same ISP and they've walked her hubby through some steps that was suppose to eliminate the problem. She knows very little about puters (even less than me) and yet she says she'd NEVER get a Dell again. I told her puters are like cars...the outside can be any model, but it's what's inside (under the hood) that counts. Hey! It sounded good when I said it!

Anyway...my question? What the dillio? Does Dell suck, as she suspects? Or could it be Windows XP? Or, could she have carried the virus over from her old puter? Any help would be greatly appreciated...and please remember my fellow Pixies...you are talking to an infant in the world of putereze...so please try and talk down to me!

Thank you in advance!

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