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links on page
every time i write a message and its displayed on forum some of the words are underlined as a link to something….ie. if its vinyl theres a link to it….. any ideas ?
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ah… that is spyware attacking ur computer
or you have a toolbar installed that finds link on every word on the screen
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the thing is dave for some reason i cant get Ad ware to run properly keeps jamming up…bit search and destroy seems to be woking
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Dave is it underlined on your screen when i send it ….or is it just a personal thing on mine 😀
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the spyware stuff can target the programs and disable them…
mine screen is fine.
Just sounds like an Advertising SpyWare thing
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quote Brian Little:every time i write a message and its displayed on forum some of the words are underlined as a link to something….ie. if its vinyl theres a link to it….. any ideas ?Brian, have you tried clicking on one to see what happens? may give you a clue as to what it is.
Nick.
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sounds like spyware to me too mate, nothing worse. i have norton now but also adaware. better buying it to get full functions with it.. Norton is always on in background and every couple of weeks i run the adaware, but it seldom finds anything.
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thanks folks …as i said the adware is loking up when i use it ill sus it out some how or another …thanks again 😀
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weird it seems to have stopped doing it 😀
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try typing something like insurance, sex or viagra. :lol1:
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good. search and destroy possibly did its job
my feelings on Norton is :vomit:
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Rob ……excuse me oh mrs do you mind 😀 😀
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na its ok Rob i just had to go onto “Swedish Nymps” …..just to make sure i couldnt go onto “swedish Nyphs ” 😀 😀 😀 😀
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I bought Norton 2 years ago, my computer guy told me to un install it as that was the cause of my comp slowing right down. Took it out & comp speeded up OK, cannot explain it but was told it seems to work OK on some comps but not others.
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On the subject of virus progs I use avg from grisoft and it seems fine, better than mcafee which kept asking me questions every five minutes.
AVG is free for home use and I think I paid about £50 for the network edition (upto 5 computers) for two years.
paul r
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Paul you got a link
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AVG is good program..
Botton line on a virus checker… as you open a document or your computer opens a file, it checks it for issues… hence a small slowdown.
McAfee / Norton are terrible these days… it doesn’t detect or repair very well… feels like a marketing excercise as their name “norton” became a buzzword and now PC world type companies have lots of boxes stacked up with Antivirus 2005/2006/2007 etc.
A false sense is to go out and buy 2006 virus checker when the 2005 one is perfectly okay. weird
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everything i have as protection and more is norton. i have actually heard some say it uses up a bit of speed, but i honestly dont see any difference. ive used norton a few years now and just spent a few bob in pc-world at christmas on upgrades etc it does as a firewall, antispam for my mail, spyware blocker, antivirus and more..
it really helps me running a site like this with the amount of clowns out there wanting/trying to pull the carpet from me on a daily basis. i have to go with something that i feel comfortable with. norton does it for me everytime. even with the amount of mail i get, i get virtualy zero spam mail & and ive never had a virus on the sites system. -
yeah.. but dont get me started on “McAfee Internet Security”.. really is terrible product. Firstly it can block a network if u hit the wrong keys.
Think u find that your ISP is filtering the emails, the ISP spam/virus filters kill’s a lot of them these days and we only see 100 a day!
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slowdown will be noticable on slow computers mainly..or people who only have 128mb of memory. My P3 laptop is very slow and I run Avast (reasonable program) and M$ Anti Spyware Beta (good program).
But the best XP security thing is “Windows Update” and using legal version of XP.
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Yer tiz Brian
I think to protect a single computer is only about £20 for two years
Can’t be bad
paul r
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yip i agree the isp spam filters catch allot, but still many get thru.
the boards own server has the same with its spam gaurd & also has antivirus built in.
with both isp and the boards servers working as filters for spam/virus, then norton taking whats left is probably why i never get any problems. even if i get one day out of a week and one spam email gets in, you just stick it in the norton bin and norton remembers it the next time anyway. -
Lots of ISP’s have got the spam/virus checkers onboard now.
thing is.. when did someone actually last get a virus? not spyware .. i mean.. a virus! like a boot sector virus -
Well I have Norton 2003 and have just got the Microsoft anti spy, I cannot remember the last time anything told me I had any spy wear or a virus.
Nick.
just thought… maybe the programs are crap and I have lots! just dint know 😀
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boot sector virus?
can you explain mate? i thought virus was virus? i dont mean spyware…
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haven’t seen a boot sector virus for years… or any program that destroys data on C:\ for that matter.
Maybe all the virus checkers that are in the world have destroyed all the viruses
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I use AVG too. Excellent stuff.
Stopped using Nortons years ago, nothing but trouble.
McAffee too. I have a mate with McAffee, and he still gets caught from time to time, although I don’t think he updates enough. AVG does it automatically so you tend to forget about it.
I use Spybot but adaware hangs on my PC too. Don’t know why.
Trialing inboxer for spam on my home machine, works really well, and I’ll buy it when the trial finished, but really screwed up my work machine on the network. Will not uninstall properly either, driving me nuts! 👿
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I’ve used Norton, Panda, and McAfee all registered versions and from time to time i’d still get that odd virus or Spyware,Adware or Malware.
Recently changed to AVG and Sygate Firewall and 99% of my problems were gone at that moment, i still run HitmanPro (free spyware, etc it’s a bundle that runs a few diferent programs based on free antispyware or trial versions completely automated) at least once a week but it hardly finds something, besides cookies.
If someone want’s to try it:
http://www.hitmanpro.nl/Vitor Brito
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