I have found all of my missing ebots, notifications, and emails !!! I have McAfee anti-virus and spamkiller, and today someone asked me if I was using a 'blocker' ??? I had no idea what this was, as McAfee is fairly new to me,and I don't really know how it works, but I clicked around and found a list of 'blocked' emails, and there was all the missing stuff !!! The other day, McAfee detected 3 viruses on my computer, a Trojan, and two others, and got rid of them. This must have been about the same time I stopped getting email, so I'm wondering if the blocking thingy went into action automatically afterwards [can it do this ?], as I haven't had this problem with mail before. I'd like to apologise to LillianH for my grumbling, and I hope that maybe, just maybe, someone else can find their missing ebots this way. If my dear friend Dixie hadn't mentioned blockers, I wouldn't have dreamed that was the answer to my problem, but then, I'm afraid I'm not very computer literate. But I'm learning every day !!!