While I am by no means a computer nerd, expert, pro, or whatever, I have owned 1,
or more, continously for over 30 years… Today I own 4, all of which have XP Pro an
IE 8 in them, 3 of which R online almost continously… I have almost zero problems
with either XP or IE 8… While I don’t really know much about computers, I have learned
what it takes, and how to deal with them over the last 30+ years… All wasn’t always a bed
roses however, I used to have the same kind of experiences U guys R relating here…
Thru a friend I was introduced to the head computer guru for the county Jr. college system
here, an its a large one, 3 campuses… He and his minions install, maintain, update, repair.
and whatever else is necessary to keep them all going… So anyway I took the oportunity
to pick his brain a little, this was a several years ago now, explained my troubles to him,
and he suggested that most of these AV programs on the market just weren’t really
all that compatible with the O/S and browsers and were the source of a lot of these
mysterious "issues’ that people had with their O/Ss & browsers… When asked what I
was using at the time, I said Norton, and he said that one was a real trouble maker, and
suggested that I try a little known one at the time, Grisoft AV, now known as AVG… Well
to make a long story short, I removed Nortons an installed the Grisoft and never looked
back, all the “issues” were gone, so I have had AVG AV, AVG firewall, and now AVG PC
tune-up in all my computers for some years now, an I have had NO viruses, NO hi-jacks,
just almost no problems at all with any of them… Suggested my son try it in his computer
too, also a friend who was having weird problems, both have had real good luck with AVG,
their problems largely disappeared after switching over… I’m not suggesting this is going
to solve all of everybodies problems here, but it sure has done wonders around here,
may be something for U to look into as well…
Paul R…
