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Abbynormal
Member
08-04-2001
| Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 8:50 pm
Could someone address my question of April 5th please? I would appreciate it. Thank you!
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 9:16 pm
Abbynormal: I am so sorry I missed your questions the first time. ZoneAlarm & Norton should neither affect the speed of your connection. Norton is only monitoring traffic in 'read only' mode until it detects a virus 'signature' coming from somewhere. ZoneAlarm is only monitoring for programs that you have not authorized to access the net. Once you authorize a program, ZA should remain in the background only keeping unwanted traffic from coming into your computer. It sounds to me like AdAware and/or SpyBot Search & Destroy are what you need to run on your computer now. What is frequently the cause of a system slowing down is adware or spyware programs attaching themselves to your browser and tying up your system by reporting information to their 'host' site. Because they use your browser and you've authorized ZoneAlarm to allow the browser to connect to the internet, that's how they usually work. A virus is most commonly received in an e-mail as some sort of attachment. In most instances, they cannot infect your system unless you actually try to open the attached file. In the event you do receive an e-mail with a virus attached, Norton should immediately open and warn you about that and give you the opportunity to deal with the virus properly. Because Adware & Spyware are not viruses in the same sense, Norton doesn't have anything to do with them. LavaSoftUSA.com is where you can get AdAware 6 from. Safer-networking.org offers SpyBot Search & Destroy for downloading. Get a copy of each of these and install them. Then run them both on your system. You will most likely see dozens of entries found by the first one and possibly a few more with the second. I strongly recommend you allow both programs to quarantine or remove anything they find. They do offer the ability to undo that so you shouldn't have any problems. Hope this helps.
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Abbynormal
Member
08-04-2001
| Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 9:18 pm
Thanks Dra. I am going to do that right now. 
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 9:19 pm
Wendo: I'm not familiar with any backup that's current. I use my CD-RW drive to store files I want to keep in case I run into any problems. So far I haven't had any so I'm sure now I will! lol Depending on what you want to backup and what device you're backing up to, you should have the software you need to match the storage device. The biggest problems these days are that hard drives are much larger then ever and backup devices are typically far too small to efficiently backup these bigger drives. Sorry I couldn't help more - if you have any other questions or would like me to try to research this for you more, I would need to first know the size of your hard drive to backup and the device you want to backup to.
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Abbynormal
Member
08-04-2001
| Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 11:07 pm
Dra, I downloaded those 2 and so far I am feeling like doing a happy dance. Computer is running really well and adaware found 70 things of crap! I am so thankful to you and your advice. P.S. Your grandbaby is sooooo precious and cute and I wouldn't say that if I did't think so! lol
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 11:19 pm
Abbynormal, I think a certain amount of sucking up to Dra is useful. I try to do it as frequently as possible. Dra, have I mentioned how nice the set of hands looked in the latest baby pics?
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 2:15 am
Maybe you guys can help me and my DH. WE got his new account up and running, and he installed a copy of our Norton 2003 (which I know you guys don't like much anymore.) Things have been going fine for the most part. He has win98se, ie6.. After his son got offline tonight, DH tried to go on, and he has lost his toolbar and launch pad? He has tried reinstalling windows, and uninstalling, reinstalling, Norton. When he tries to go online, his toolbar vanishes and he can't do anything. He did run a virus scan and nothing came up. He's trying now to start in safe mode and run another scan. Any other suggestions? Did I make any sense trying to explain this? Son says he didn't open any mail, but he was at some game site. He did get an "alert" from Norton, but doesn't remember what/how he responded. (grrrr..)
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 8:17 am
Mygetaway: Another effect Adware and/or Spyware can have on your computer is hijacking your browser, altering or removing the toolbar, and any number of other irritating things they can do. Here is a copy of the advice I gave Abbynormal about these type of problems: LavaSoftUSA.com is where you can get AdAware 6 from. Safer-networking.org offers SpyBot Search & Destroy for downloading. Get a copy of each of these and install them. Then run them both on your system. You will most likely see dozens of entries found by the first one and possibly a few more with the second. I strongly recommend you allow both programs to quarantine or remove anything they find. They do offer the ability to undo that so you shouldn't have any problems.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 10:30 am
MGA, let me add that Ad-Aware is a bit confusing to figure what you are supposed to do next when it pops up the list of stuff it found. What you are supposed to do (near as I can figure out) is put a checkmark by everything it found and then hit Next and keep hitting Next until you get to Finish. Then close the program. Mercifully when it found 377 pieces of spyware on my neighbor's computer, the program put the checkmarks there for us, but when I have 30 or so, I have to tediously go down the list and put a checkmark in each box. Good luck, MGA. Oh! And it may be just me that is currently disappointed with Norton, and I am just a regular mope who doesn't necessarily know anything. <shoots a meaningful look at the Sponge>
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 10:47 am
In Ad-aware you should be able to right click and choose the select all items option to check everything. Nothing ever comes up checked for me in Ad-aware and everything comes up checked for me in Spybot S&D. I'm an irregular mope and I'm disappointed with Norton. <flips bird to the Dawg>
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 12:25 pm
i know rosie asked dra for help for me a few minutes ago and i accessed the board through that other site but i cant access any of the private folders and i still cant access the TVCH site the normal way- since about 10am EST - I rebooted twice, and tried different browsers and did a virus check. I can access all other sites like yahoo and paypal but when i try this one i get a "page cannot be displayed" and also, one other site i usually can access (my old college's career center) is saying i dont have permission to go to their main page, eventhough i access the home page of the college- anyway- any idea what to do? is there a problem with the boards?
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 12:36 pm
I am sure this is not the answer and I will sound dumb..but anytime in the past that happened to me, Legal, if I cleaned out my cache and temp files and then rebooted and started over, I could get in OK. As I said, I am sure that you have done that..but just in case, I thought I would mention it. Good luck BTW
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 12:44 pm
thanks Jan- i just tried yet again to get on the board and it worked! so all is solved though i have no idea what the problem was - i know others had similiar problems today so i was not alone in not being able to access the board, just to let the mods know.
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Littlec
Member
11-14-2003
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 12:48 pm
I had problems this morning too. But all I had to do was close my browser and open it up again. I guess I was lucky. Glad to have you back Legal.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 12:49 pm
Legal just said that she has to log in for every page DRA. Didn't Abbynormal just post about that kind of problem?
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 12:51 pm
Well don't know what I was thinking. Don't see that post now. Must have dreamed it????
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 12:56 pm
rosie all is fine now
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 1:23 pm
There are occasions when a service provider may have to perform maintenance on their DNS server (the map of the internet you could say) that may take them offline or cause them to be rebuilt. While this is happening, some sites may be inaccessible to their users. Often the problem will clear up on it's own within a short amount of time. Persistent problems should be brought to the ISPs tech support department for more permanent resolutions. In case anyone has this type of problem in the future, my suggestion is to use @nonymouse.com anonymous proxy type service. Just go to that site, click on 'English' (or German if you prefer) and enter tvclubhouse.bomis.com into the window and you should be brought here, albeit considerably slower and without it remembering your login due to the proxy effect. In any case, if you have problems, please be sure to post about them here and any solutions you find so others may be able to resolve problems if they have them too.
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 1:28 pm
Thanks guys!! I knew about the Ad-Aware.. just wondered if it might be something else. I gave him the address last night, but I don't think he got that far yet. I just don't understand all the problems he gets.. I never seem to have them. Juju.. when I do Ad-Aware, I only get about 10-17 "files identified", tracking cookies. I hardly ever go anywhere else though, so I'm sure that's part of it..lol.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 11:18 pm
<retrieves the bird flipped by the Sponge and brings it back to his feet; deposits a bottle of Metamucil for the Sponge's irregularity>
Hey, Spongie, thanks for the right click tip. I think I'll go try it now.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, April 09, 2004 - 11:51 pm
It worked! Yay! No more making 44 checkmarks! Yay!!!
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 4:28 pm
Draheid, thanks for responding. Looks like I'll back up to an external hard drive for quick and often back ups. I'll use my DVD/CD burner for long term backup. I haven't had luck finding specific software so it looks like I'll do it manually for now. Thanks again!
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, April 11, 2004 - 8:08 pm
I'm curious to know if anyone here uses windows update? I've used it in the past but it caused pc problems. I had to reset my pc to the factory defaults. Needless to say I haven't used it since. I just want to know if anyone else has the same experience? Also my Norton Antivirus free period will expire 4/26. Should I stay with Norton? I also have ZERO-FREEDOM(which I don't use). Any other similar software you'd recommend? Thanks 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, April 11, 2004 - 10:45 pm
KL, uninstall your Norton and go with this one: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php It is free, and it works well, and you get free updates. I have a paid-up, up-to-date Norton, yet I am using this one and feel a lot safer using it. I caught about four viruses WHILE running my up-to-date Norton. Have not had any since I began using AVG.
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Bigd
Member
09-13-2001
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 8:16 am
I can't tell you how or why it happened (since I don't know), but somehow I have lost some or most of the fonts that come with Windows98se. After much research I created a Windows98 StartUp Disk, backed up my Registry and I very carefully and meticulously followed the instructions at this http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q234749 unfortunately it was a disaster and it took me two days to restore my system. Now I still have the same font problems and and looking for a solution - any ideas?
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