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Compiled by PETER SINCLAIR

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InBox has been inundated with email from the afflicted - readers who have been unlucky enough to fall victim to the viral marketing of GoHip, a low-rent portal which has planted its malicious, invasive code all over the web. I've been sending out a fix most of this week, but from now on you'll be able to download it from local shareware specialists Yippee.

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Julio on the music wars: "The things they're doing with digital music are a complete crock… speaking of which, I have used Microsoft's new Media Player 7....it crashed my system."

Funny you should say that, Julio, so did I and it crashed mine too, totally - I had to use GoBack in the end. But Microsoft says 3.4 million people downloaded it in the first 10 days - 4 downloads a second - and there are now over 200 million licensed copies worldwide. I can't believe they're all locked up – must be just you and me…

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CD-burner blues: the Rajman still can't get his to work, and he's been joined by Yash who in spite of using the Audio tab with the Easy-CD Creator wizard still can't hear a thing. Grant, a tamed geek I keep in a cage for just such occasions as this, says: "They need to check they are closing the session properly. EZCD creator has three options to leave the disk once the burning has finished:

* 'Leave Session open' - if you choose this option, the CD will not work in any normal CD-ROM's, you will only be able to "look" and "use" the CD in a burner.

* 2. 'Close session and leave CD open' - this lets the CD be "used" in a CD-ROM drive (closing that session) and you can still write more stuff to it later (new session). The downside of this is that almost all normal household CD-players won't be able to "see" the other sessions, only the first.

* 3. 'Close CD' - this will close the CD so no more data can ever be written to it; if you stuff up with this option you have made a very nice silver coaster for sitting your drinks on :)

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Auckland-based law firm Carlaw and Partners are offering a sort of legal equivalent of InBox at www.carterslaw.co.nz. "We'll answer as many as we can each month - we may not have the time to answer all questions and some answers may just be too complicated for a quick written response… "

Know how they feel... incidentally, there's a great online helpdesk at www.protonic.com

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Last week Stephanie Brown was asking about recipes from TV's "Naked Chef". Both Alan Keatinge and Lois Grayburn reply: "www.bbc.co.uk/food is worth looking into. Following links you eventually get his best 12 recipes, some of which have been in the programme". Check out 'Celebrity Chefs'.

If there's anything you want to know about the exciting world of the Web, just email inbox@herald.co.nz - we promise to answer, in language you can understand. You can get help online to at our Inbox forum.

Links:

Yippee

GoBack

www.carterslaw.co.nz

www.protonic.com

www.bbc.co.uk/food