Thanks Gerald for the heads up on a good firewall antivirus system.
Just saved me from sending Microsoft 50 bucks for a 1 year subscription.
Had Norton, but there prices are getting worse and worse.

There's a fine example of a British pub bar. And Hook Norton is some good ale too! I want some

Here's a question for our Base Camp visitors. Do you normally go from one "trek" on to the next or are there gaps in between? From some of the recent posts, it appears that you have a good number of WUs going into Pending Validation as the start of a trek. If you're crunching all the time but just for different teams, I would not expect that. Just trying to understand better.....

Thanks LargeThunder, don't mind if I do - at least I wasn't too late this time!

Thanks Rick. Yes, that helps a lot. Being the ever vigilant team captain, the possibility of a home team being needed occurred to me and of course, I'd welcome folks using MOT as that. Since that's not needed, someone would have to change their base team and they'd still be welcome here for that but that would be their decision and not something for me to push. The main thought was why base campers are starting out with lower than normal scores and that would seem to be purely due to additional machines that are idle and brought "online" for a trek. In that case, presuming BOINC is used, that machine is getting a full load of work for using the same "connect to server" days setting in the BOINC profile. That would mean that at the beginning of a trek, the initial load of work the newly online machine gets will all be from what is currently being sent out - ie, new work. That machine's initial work will be more likely to go into Pending Validation at first. At the end of the trek, what's still in PV at that point will probably be less and the eventual points for those will end up going to your base team as you would have switched back at that point. A good point for my understanding is knowing that you're not always on a trek and go from one to the next so as the good captain, y'all are welcome to make individual treks here too.