THANKS!!!:)I uninstalled Spybot and gave this a try and also used the Free de-Frag that came with it,I think my computer just found the fountain of youth!Thanks Again!:D
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seems like some of guys are having better luck than me,I tried loading
Spybot ,about half way something else took over,buy the time I was
done,some stupid stopzilla had loaded up and want me to buy or donate !!
then I tried the housecall ,1 and half hour later (a big nothing) so I tried
again,now after a very long wait ,it said I needed to install some other
program, buy this time there is smoke coming out of my ears,my wife
is laughing at me cause I am threating the freaking computer,:whacked:
and to top all off,I could not get on this tread all weekend :mad::mad:
oh well ! not all is lost,, we got to watch a good game !!:D:D
I looked at all of the suggestions you folks made then did a search on the internet, including PC Magazine and PC World. They are all in love with Norton/Symantec for a paid version, like the Microsoft vesion, ho-hum about McAfee and Kaspersky, are OK with the AVG products.
They really like the AVAST as a free software. Minor faults, but those can be lived with. I downloaded it and my computer has new life!!! It starts easy as well as shutting down just like the old days. The laptop - back to normal once the McAfee was gone.
It's interesting how these software companies rise then fall as McAfee was well rated when I originally bought it a few years ago and kept it only because I was comfortable with that product - and now it's mediocre rated. Oh well, live and learn.
I ran Norton on my old Gateway until it let a worm,trojan, whatever through and crashed the hard drive. I tried CA and it basically brought the computer to a halt, so I switched to Kaspersky.
The Dell I got a couple of years ago came with McAfee and when the subscription ran out I went with Kaspersky as I couldn't justify McAfee's much higher cost and lower ratings.
On a side note, when I uninstalled Norton on the Gateway it took about 4 hours to clean out the registry editor. Norton doesn't like to be uninstalled and their customer service, some clown in India, Pakistan, wherever, is worthless.:mad: