lol, I was going to say "Got Geek Squad over yonder?"
:p Though the hubby usually does the fixin. And to think over 20 years ago I ws a computer wiz. Though I was in Computer Science and Pc's were just coming to the forefront. I worked on MainFrames. I learned programing languages and systems management in college.
Until my Father refused to allow me to continue after two years, Evidently, in 1985 he KNEW there was no future in computers. Yay me. Scholarship, two years of college and a high paying career down the drain.
And as he had full control of my life, I had no choice. I was a much different girl then, under his thumb and not knowing better. Wish I could go back and cut his nuts off. Really.
Once you have things working again? iObit's Security 360 (a free download from cnet.com) has two nifty features: Security Holes, I think it's called; and Passive Security, likewise. The latter has long lists of sites such as doubleclick.com, doubleclick.net, & cetera, that it loads into the security settings of your browsers. (It did for two of the three I use, anyway, and cut-and-paste took care of the third.)
I wasn't terribly happy with AVG. Instead, I've been using ZoneAlarm plus Avast(free) plus supplemental/zero-day software ThreatFire for ... gosh, a couple of years now, I guess ... on my machine and my mother's (she's notorious). The only infection either of us has had in that time was something her PC picked up from a game site, when my nephew overrode all the security bells and whistles.
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:p Though the hubby usually does the fixin. And to think over 20 years ago I ws a computer wiz. Though I was in Computer Science and Pc's were just coming to the forefront. I worked on MainFrames. I learned programing languages and systems management in college.
Until my Father refused to allow me to continue after two years, Evidently, in 1985 he KNEW there was no future in computers. Yay me. Scholarship, two years of college and a high paying career down the drain.
And as he had full control of my life, I had no choice. I was a much different girl then, under his thumb and not knowing better. Wish I could go back and cut his nuts off. Really.
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I wasn't terribly happy with AVG. Instead, I've been using ZoneAlarm plus Avast(free) plus supplemental/zero-day software ThreatFire for ... gosh, a couple of years now, I guess ... on my machine and my mother's (she's notorious). The only infection either of us has had in that time was something her PC picked up from a game site, when my nephew overrode all the security bells and whistles.
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