denno
Topic Starter
And here I am again. Just went through a thorough cleanup with jeffce, still some issues; he sent me here.
Cleanup thread: http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?sh…124638&st=0
What's still going on:
Firefox crashes. All windows go bye-bye. Then my wife gets up in the middle of the night and opens her AOL Mail window and my previous session restore potential is also bye-bye. I'll have to retrain my ever-lovin' on my own, but about FF: Jeff suggests reinstalling it. I'm sure there is a way to do that and retain bookmarks and so forth, and that that is on the FF site, so no sweat, I can try it.
Do you know if these repeated crashes are a symptom of FF, or of something else in the computer?
I'm open to suggestions of other browsers.
Often scrolling is a problem. Sometimes it seems to be a matter of the page's not being fully downloaded. I see a lot of "waiting for…." down in the lower left corner..
I should point out that we live in the hinterlands, where we were amazed and delighted to find DSL available; but this is provided by the tiniest Baby Bell on the planet, and the general service is ok-but-not-great.
Anyhow, often I scroll and first nothing happens and then it jumps half a page, and so forth.
[There's also this thing where I see a page, start to focus on a link, then the page shifts up and down. But this is because all the ads haven't finish opening, and the page keeps reformatting to accommodate them. Patience….]
Outlook Express seems the worst. It loads slowly. Then if I go to, say, a FB link out of an e-mail, then close the FB page, OE comes back slowly in patches; sometimes hangs up all the way. Less of this post-cleanup, but not gone.
Open Office always takes forever to load. The program or just a document. That's always been true.
Another topic for advice: My machine seemed to be really full of junk. How can I avoid this? (I try to be watchful for PUPs, for one). Why did I have 88 iterations of some basic trojan I can't remember the name of? Of COURSE I visit naughty sites….they're THERE. Why doesn't my protection protect me? (MSE and Windows Firewall, auto-updates). Where did I come up with Coupon Companion, which seemed to be a major problem?
Philosophically, I guess some people make malware because they are anti-social. But a lot of the stuff seems to be tracking bugs to collect commercial information and personalize ads (I took a look at FIFTY FREE BUSINESS CARDS and now an offer shows up on every page I ever look at). Tell me HOW it is considered to be of advantage to sellers to screw up people's computers so badly?
Another little thing I'll ask about: I have a severed tendon in my right hand, so my middle finger drags a bit (hell of a thing for a finger-picker). Hence I often hit a 9 when I am typing an "o" — h9ouse; and a few other such. But I also get a lot of doubling of the leetter "e." That's the other hand. Sloppy, or might that be the keyboard and I should get a new one?
I'll add if I see or remember any other behaviors.
Any thoughts on all this?
Thanx,
denno
Cleanup thread: http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?sh…124638&st=0
What's still going on:
Firefox crashes. All windows go bye-bye. Then my wife gets up in the middle of the night and opens her AOL Mail window and my previous session restore potential is also bye-bye. I'll have to retrain my ever-lovin' on my own, but about FF: Jeff suggests reinstalling it. I'm sure there is a way to do that and retain bookmarks and so forth, and that that is on the FF site, so no sweat, I can try it.
Do you know if these repeated crashes are a symptom of FF, or of something else in the computer?
I'm open to suggestions of other browsers.
Often scrolling is a problem. Sometimes it seems to be a matter of the page's not being fully downloaded. I see a lot of "waiting for…." down in the lower left corner..
I should point out that we live in the hinterlands, where we were amazed and delighted to find DSL available; but this is provided by the tiniest Baby Bell on the planet, and the general service is ok-but-not-great.
Anyhow, often I scroll and first nothing happens and then it jumps half a page, and so forth.
[There's also this thing where I see a page, start to focus on a link, then the page shifts up and down. But this is because all the ads haven't finish opening, and the page keeps reformatting to accommodate them. Patience….]
Outlook Express seems the worst. It loads slowly. Then if I go to, say, a FB link out of an e-mail, then close the FB page, OE comes back slowly in patches; sometimes hangs up all the way. Less of this post-cleanup, but not gone.
Open Office always takes forever to load. The program or just a document. That's always been true.
Another topic for advice: My machine seemed to be really full of junk. How can I avoid this? (I try to be watchful for PUPs, for one). Why did I have 88 iterations of some basic trojan I can't remember the name of? Of COURSE I visit naughty sites….they're THERE. Why doesn't my protection protect me? (MSE and Windows Firewall, auto-updates). Where did I come up with Coupon Companion, which seemed to be a major problem?
Philosophically, I guess some people make malware because they are anti-social. But a lot of the stuff seems to be tracking bugs to collect commercial information and personalize ads (I took a look at FIFTY FREE BUSINESS CARDS and now an offer shows up on every page I ever look at). Tell me HOW it is considered to be of advantage to sellers to screw up people's computers so badly?
Another little thing I'll ask about: I have a severed tendon in my right hand, so my middle finger drags a bit (hell of a thing for a finger-picker). Hence I often hit a 9 when I am typing an "o" — h9ouse; and a few other such. But I also get a lot of doubling of the leetter "e." That's the other hand. Sloppy, or might that be the keyboard and I should get a new one?
I'll add if I see or remember any other behaviors.
Any thoughts on all this?
Thanx,
denno
