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Offline BlueStateSaint

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Gotta shoot the flare up! SOS!
« on: August 26, 2010, 11:38:48 AM »
Gang, my home PC, for the most part, has the speed of someone trying to row a boat through a lake of molassess . . . in January.  Unfortunately, I have McAfee virus protection.  I noticed the decrease in speed became much greater after I renewed in May.  Yes, I ran a virus scan on the thing--Sunday--and nothing showed up.  It drives me right up a wall.  Also, I think that the hard drive is going.  I do have an external drive to back it up to (and have actually used it).

Any help/suggestions for a better antivirus/firewall-type thing?  Or should I just use the Roadrunner/Time Warner one?
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Re: Gotta shoot the flare up! SOS!
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2010, 11:54:38 AM »
Avast is awesome and free. 
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Re: Gotta shoot the flare up! SOS!
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2010, 12:02:36 PM »
You might want to read through this thread: http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,45925.0.html

I would probably suggest that you download, install and run Malwarebytes. Many anti-viruses won't find spyware or certain other exploits. You might need to run malwarebytes in "Safe Mode".

Nextly, are you on cable or DSL?? If DSL, who is your provider??
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Re: Gotta shoot the flare up! SOS!
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2010, 04:28:44 PM »
If you don't have CrapCleaner, get it. Do a "normal" (DoD level takes longer) cleanup. It will clean out all the saved cookies and other garbage Windoze and IE "save".
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Re: Gotta shoot the flare up! SOS!
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2010, 05:36:47 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on August 26, 2010, 04:28:44 PM
If you don't have CrapCleaner, get it. Do a "normal" (DoD level takes longer) cleanup. It will clean out all the saved cookies and other garbage Windoze and IE "save".

A person with moderate PC skills probably shouldn't use CCleaner. I wouldn't recommend it.
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Re: Gotta shoot the flare up! SOS!
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2010, 08:47:27 AM »
Thor, I'm on cable.  Time/Warner.
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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk!" -Ayn Rand
 
"Those that trust God with their safety must yet use proper means for their safety, otherwise they tempt Him, and do not trust Him.  God will provide, but so must we also." - Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Chronicles 32, from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

"These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies."--Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

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