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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (275815)	2/21/2006 2:33:13 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575949

I give up on mcafee after 6. I tried 8 and it's a joke. Slows the computer to a crawl and kills the hard drive. I have had mixed results with mcafee......but you're right...it does slow your pc down. I wanted to change this last time when their annual contract was up but I didn't have time to check things out. In all fairness to them, spyfalcon is a new infection.......from what I can tell, its been out only for two weeks. The free microsoft program is the best I've seen from here: komando.com; I linked the page.....will check it out on my next quarter break. Have you considered using the System Restore feature? I've used it before as a last resort before starting over. I will consider it. The problem with system restore as I understand it is that you never know what you are going to lose. The computer learning page JF referred me to has come up with a spyfalcon cleanup they claim is faster than the ones I saw last nite. They say you can get it done in 10 minutes. Might as well try it. And quit using microsoft to surf the net. Use another browser and email client. IE and Outlook/Outlook Express are the problem, not the kids laughing their asses off at bill gates... Which browser do you use? Or do you run your computer on the Internet using administrator privileges? Most people don't even know it. If you had been running as a "limited" account, none of this would have happened to you. I don't understand administrator privileges. Is that a setting you employ on your browser which then interprets the quality of the website you are visiting? TIA.