Ok all some of you are right on the money we found out that it was just wrong configuration, although I still dont understand how it became that way?He and I both play on-line games like counterstrike,tfc,half-life,starwars galaxies, dont know if anyone is able to mess around with his settings when we are connected to those games? but installing norton firewall this weekend so that should stop any direct attacks then we'll just wait and see if it happens agian.thanks alot to all of you for replies everbit helps......