Well, I must firstly, thank you. The file I had to get has got it working. My reservation on seeing the website the link gave me was that I am no expert and am wary of downloading something which may prove disastrous. On seeing your reply I decided to go for it. I now have my linkstation working for the first time in three years.
I take your point about time-related links, being no exp[ert I can only guess what havoc might ensue from careless use. My apologies for sounding rather cross, but I have been on the phone to Buffalo several times, who blamed AVG, AVG spent some time time trying to se why this happened. I was about to buy another storage device, but they all have someone who got into a mess setting one up. You have saved me this trouble.
David, Surrey, UK