Originally posted by Talem16Just a guess, but you might have spyware. Do you regularly check your PC using a spyware cleaner?
What could be the problem? When I turn on my computer is fast but when i click the internet explorer icon it takes a while to open a page sometimes I can't go to the page.
I have try almost everything my connection is DSL what else could I do?
I'm not familiar with them two, but I always rely more on proactive protection when dealing with menaces such as these. There's one called SpyWareBlaster that runs along side IE to watch for items such as prevention of Active X based spyware, dialers, etc as well as prevent spyware tracking cookies. You can also prevent the actions of spyware by adding thousands of sites to IE's restricted sites list which stops the loading of some of the harmful effects of some of these items if you accidently go to them for some reason. Also available for Mozilla/Firefox.
Also, if you are curious to what is currently running in your browser that you don't know about, like hidden plug-ins and such, you can run "Hijack This" and it will tell you anything that's there.
SpyBot is a very effective tool to use as well, it not only finds them but repairs the damage done by spyware, something many anti-spyware programs don't do. It also gets spyware out of memory, something AdAware can't do on the free version.
But I would use as many as possible to see if it works. Do you have a firewall? If so, has it been giving alerts?
-Bob
If your DSL connection isnt in use, it needs some time to "warm up" Its best to constantly leave it on with something like Kazaa going to make sure you always have the fastest connection when you want it. Leaving the pc on 24/7 helps keep it in good hardware health too, since the chips cool when they are off and get quite hot when they are on, causing your hardware to expand and contract.
Originally posted by SkipSlotHi skip yeah I have a firewall but I have not recieved any alerts only updates.Where can I run "hijack This or how I do that? and where can I get spybot?
I'm not familiar with them two, but I always rely more on proactive protection when dealing with menaces such as these. There's one called SpyWareBlaster that runs along side IE to watch for items such as prevention of Active X based spyware, dialers, etc as well as prevent spyware tracking cookies. You can also prevent the actions of spyware by adding th ...[text shortened]... as possible to see if it works. Do you have a firewall? If so, has it been giving alerts?
-Bob
Thanks for the help
Originally posted by GrayeyesofsorrowHi, I turn on evreyday my computer this happend when i installed "Windows Service package 2" The one with protection and all that but then I removed it to see if that was the problem but it's still slow sometimes the page says " could not find page" or something like that.
If your DSL connection isnt in use, it needs some time to "warm up" Its best to constantly leave it on with something like Kazaa going to make sure you always have the fastest connection when you want it. Leaving the pc on 24/7 helps keep it in good hardware health too, since the chips cool when they are off and get quite hot when they are on, causing your hardware to expand and contract.
Originally posted by Talem16Have you tried downloading Firefox yet? It may just be that your IE is corrupt. 🙂
Hi, I turn on evreyday my computer this happend when i installed "Windows Service package 2" The one with protection and all that but then I removed it to see if that was the problem but it's still slow sometimes the page says " could not find page" or something like that.
~ Cheshire Cat 😀
Originally posted by Talem16Hi Talem,
Hi, I turn on evreyday my computer this happend when i installed "Windows Service package 2" The one with protection and all that but then I removed it to see if that was the problem but it's still slow sometimes the page says " could not find page" or something like that.
If you're having PC problems and you suspect it's spyware or a virus/trojan etc, then I highly recommend this site.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/security
This is a link just to the security forum. They have every bit of info you could ever want and it's free to register. Most of the people on there are professionals in the IT field and they're some good folks.
Your pc problem may be simple to solve or it may be complicated. But either way, it's a good site to have bookmarked for just about every pc problem under the sun.
Good luck!