Computer help - Post links, advice, etc...

bumping - anyone else out there w/advice or links to boards?

ty, amy

The forums here are excellent. Nice people with a lot of info and knowledge. Their homepage is a gateway to an incredible amount of software - much of it free. It has your well
known favorites like SPYBOT and ADAWARE, as well as Registry cleaners,AntiVirus programs,Gamer Tweakers, ect, ect. As well as HIJACK THIS. They accept log submissions and post them so that all the techies there can make recommendations on the board. Great place. www.majorgeeks.com

Anybody having an upsurge of SPAM lately in hotmail accounts? Mine is getting Bad.. it seemed to have calmed down a bit for a while, but in the last week, Spam-o-Rama.

yad

I've checked in on this thread a few times. Just wanted to put it back up there, so others could find it.

Any chance of making this thread sticky?

Originally Posted by orthicon Any chance of making this thread sticky?

Okay, my free trial of Zone Alarm Pro is over today. I'd like to know if it's worth buying. I like it so far.

yad

Originally Posted by yadgirl Okay, my free trial of Zone Alarm Pro is over today. I'd like to know if it's worth buying. I like it so far. yad

zone alarm pro is good but if your really looking into buying something id go for norton or mcafee and dident somebody say u can get norton for $9.99 after rebate at amazon or something right now? id look into that if i were u

I actually have an unopened copy of Norton firewall, but I was planning to buy Norton Internet Security and didn't want to install the firewall yet.

Guess I'll just stick with the freebie verion of Zone Alarm til then.

yad

Originally Posted by yadgirl I actually have an unopened copy of Norton firewall, but I was planning to buy Norton Internet Security and didn't want to install the firewall yet. Guess I'll just stick with the freebie verion of Zone Alarm til then. yad

yeah that prolly would be a good idea then u could sell or give away the firewall or something i have both norton internet security and system works they work wonderfully!

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com website made by the same people that made ad-aware
-if they cannot fix your computer, then no one can!!

This site has good secure settings for IE and OE
Has all the programs you need to stay safe.

http://members.accessbee.com/mitch/PhantomPhixer.html

i woudl suggest just copying and pasting the IE/OE setting and giving them their own topic and sticky it, then do the same with newbie/oldie list...

pc pitstop
Go to test my pc(it's free) will run a varietyof free tests on your pc and gives advice on various ways to fix problems

Great article on some of the tips and tricks available at Google that will help you get better results when searching the web:
http://www.seorank.com/google-advanced-search-tips.htm

Was just reminded - if you have Outlook Express for email, you need to close your preview pane to prevent infected emails from automatically launching.

In OE:
Go to View>Layout and UNCHECK Preview Pane.

Happy and Safe Sweeping everybody, amy

Considered to be the best free Trojan scanning program is Swatit, found at www.swatit.org/index.html. It works with all versions of Windows.

Originally Posted by renegade Considered to be the best free Trojan scanning program is Swatit, found at www.swatit.org/index.html. It works with all versions of Windows.

Don't forget, that one takes a really long time to scan. When I used it, I would start the scan and go to bed so it would be done when I got up. It is very thorough. Thanks for the reminder - I had forgotten all about that one!

amy