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I just lost my bookmarks again 2nd time in days and I just spent hours looking for some bits which i bookmarked and they aint there no more.:mad: :mad:
Stuff Firefox, :(
Think I'll go back to Opera. :eek:
And if its still buggy IE here I come :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Haha......
I ditched FF last week, what a load of bollocks.
Al :eek:
I had to convert to FF when IE got stuffed by some adware. i ahven't had a problem with it. Must be u guys.... :D :D :D :D :D
Have you tryed Spybot??Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
Removes all the spy/adware.
Al
Well I've gone back to IE too. Sort of. Actually I've gone back to SlimBrowser which is an IE wrapper. Does tabs, pop up blocker, yada yada.
I won't use Opera 'cause i refuse to pay for a bloody browser and I won't tolerate adware.
Yeah i've got spybot but the damage was done. After the problems I had, I purchased Xoftspy and it picked up about 20 spyware/adweare programs that Spybot missed. All seems fine now but i get about 20 emails a day from some online pharmacy and related sites trying to sell me Viagra etc. They must have been talking to my wife !!! I use Mailwasher too, that sorts them out. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by ozwinner
Just wondering - are you using a good firewall program like ZoneAlarm? I used to have problems with disappearing bookmarks etc, but it seems to have stopped since I put ZoneAlarm on.
It's major inprovement over Microsquash's offering is that it works both ways - if someone gets their junk running on your machine, ZoneAlarm stops it getting out, as well as blocking script kiddies from breaking in. MS's firewall, and a lot of others, only try to stop someone getting in & don't stop malicious & backdoor programs 'dailing home' once they are aboard. Wonderfully trusting of them isn't it? :D
I've just given Xoftspy a run - well, their free scanner anyway. Yes, it did pick up five files that Spybot missed, but Ad-Aware found 13, five of which were the same ones Xoftspy found. ;)
I've been running Ad-Aware and Spybot back to back for quite a while now. They each find different stuff but together, they do seem to get all of it based on tests like the above where I try a different spyware scanner. :)
Interestingly, I've just changed the Spybot settings to the highest level - it found stuff it had ignored on the previous scan (immediately before), which I guess you'd expect, and didn't seem to take any longer to do the scan so I'd reccomend that move.
Zonealarm is supposed to be a good firewall as far as free ones go, but I have a nephew in the internet security industry and he describes it as a lace curtain. However, he doesn't go recommending anything else either so it's probably a case that all of them are pretty easy to crack if you're determined enough. :mad:
Personally, I use Norton's Internet Security - the latest version. The first version was a dodgy as a three dollar bill but this new version is smooth, fast and trouble free. My excuse? It came on my Dell when I bought it so I used it and was impressed enough to pay for it when the time came (I wouldn't give you tuppence for the first version, which I'd been using up to then). :cool:
Ah spammers and hackers - wouldn't the internet be boring without them. What would we talk about ... apart from pancakes?
Cheers
Richard
I am on IE and always have been. I'm using the basic Norton antivirus nad have never had any problem whatsoever. :confused: :confused: :confused:
Dan
Never had any problems with FF...
I do think there is a bug though that if you dont have any bookmarks on the bookmark toolbar it will loose focus and loose all bookmarks.