Usenet Explorer

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it is most likely an scr file, which is a screen saver. It is an executable file so if you run it it would infect the machine (assuming no AV software is installed). I highly doubt it was a picture that was infected. What was the exact post? My guess is the attachment was something like this: someCe...

again, the virus is in what you downloaded, not newspro. The article you downloaded (from a picture group most likely) was contained in one npr file. Norton scanned it and saw the fingerprint in it, thats all.

doesnt it already do this? right click on the server and its on the list no?

http://mikestammer.com/NewsPro/HowTo/page4.html

Exclude header bandwidth - Do not include bandwidth used for downloading headers in bandwidth usage numbers

scr files are executable since they are screen savers typically. Since they are small they were most likely in one .npr file and when it was accessed norton scanned it and saw the scr file. you will get these if you blindly download from Usenet. NewsPro didnt do anything wrong!!

Check out my how to

http://mikestammer.com/NewsPro

I released a new version today. this version adds several nice things:

- Installer will take care of uninstalling old version
- Program has a version checker (under Help Menu)


See home page for more details.

Please update! =)

http://mikestammer.com/NewsPro

I take it the foriegn users have had no issues with this version?

No one has said a word?!

New version is live. Thanks

rulez your problem should be solved with v1.9.1 that i will be posting tonight. please test it out and let me know. thanks!

Changes include: - Changed URL of help contents - Updated email address on About screen - Added home page link to About screen - Changed code to allow for internationalization (sorry it took so long and thank you Andre C for testing!) - Fixed issue where single quotes in path names would generate an...

would a rescan headers redownload them for you?

Hi, it used to run on 81, then i switched it to 80 for simplicity. I posted an update in the NPDL manager thread. sorry about that!

Please use this link from now on

http://mikestammer.com

Minimize disk access would pull MORE stuff into memory so things run faster (since it wont have to read from a much slower hard disk).

How much memory do you have?

URL is now just

http://mikestammer.com

Thanks!