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I have just shut down and restarted but it appears as soon as I go to WPF. I cannot click yes - nothing happens so I have to click NO then I can sign on. But I now cannot put smilies or bold.

Cameras I can handle but computers ..............

Don

Try to clear your cookies in Internet explorer.

In IE 7 click Tools -> Internet options then in general remove cookies.

Let us know if it works...

Did that and did a restart but it failed. I now get it on NG too ????????

Don

It looks like a adware/spyware. Trys to take you to an advertizment page when probably your antivirus program stop its opening.
If you have any spyware program run it otherwise you may want to down load a free one either form Microsoft's site itself (Windows Defender) or other sites. My recommendations appart from above, is Spyboot and Adaware that both have free very effective versions.
Alternatively you may want to restore your window into an earlier time when malware was not active into your registration file.
Best of luck.

You are welcome.
Good to know at least partly problem solved.
Norton is OK but not the best.
If problem still persist after full system scan do a system Restore. Here is a quick go thro if you need;
Start>
. -Accessories>
. -System tools>
. -System Restore
Please look at the picture #1 below, and chose an older date from calendar when you knew you PC was working fine. Seat back and let computer go back and restore a period of time that it was functioning well.

Now after rebooting you need to do the real preventive stuff. So don't relay alone on your NAV.

1- Download and install Window Defender. Here is the Link:

- LINK TO WINDOWS DEFENDER

2- Download and install Spybot - Search and destroy

- LINK - 2

3- Download and install Ad aware. Choose option 4, free download.

- LINK - 3

Now with all three running once in a while (Each does slightly independent job than other) you should be in good hand.

BTW if some members think Mac users are immune from these, tell them to think again. I have a magazine that can be send for reference of anyone interested to see stories are the same, vulnerabilities are the same only numbers of problem makers are proportional to computer users. Also if next time send your old mac as donation to (No insult to anyone but just referred from true statistics) China or Russia, you will actually see how competent are the problem makers.

Or else just use a modern web browser. Seriously, there is no excuse for still running Internet Explorer in this day and age.

You are a STAR Sassan, many thanks. :)

All is now running well.


I am on BT Broadband and use BT's browser as that gives me multi tabbed browsing. For my limited internet wanderings it does what I want and I have hidden most of its features as they are of no interest. I'm for the simple life.

Don

Even so Don, once you taste the glory that is Firefox, you won't want anything to do with IE ;)

I run IE7 and Firefox and prefer IE7 of the two. IE7 load initial pages slightly faster and I really like the multiple tabs in IE7. Even the most die hard firefox experts are conceding that IE7 is just as good.

Don. just think for a moment, OK? You really think getting infected by spyware so that Sassan had to rescue you is the simple life? You got infected (and you will get infected again for 100% certain) because you are using a stone-age browser with dreadful security. It is not "easier" or "simpler" to use this horribly insecure technology, it is much, much more difficult in the long run. Internet Explorer is the single most important spyware infection vector (and is also a virus risk, of course). Spyware is the single most likely cause of you (or any person) needing to seek professional help to fix your computer.

Getting a spyware and continuing to use Internet Explorer afterwards anyway is exactly like having surgery for lung cancer and going on smoking. If you don't address the cause of your problems - and make no mistake, IE is a very major cause of spyware infection - then they will just return to haunt you, over and over again.

If I sound a little holier-than-though or a little like a hellfire and brimstone preacher on this topic, forgive me. But I've learned a lot about photography from you here, Don, and I can't just stay quiet when I see you self-inflicting injury in the field where my professional expertise lies.

Quitting the IE habit is not painful. It is, in fact, liberating - the modern browsers are a long way in front not just in security but also in ease-of-use features. That tabbed browsing you mentioned is an example: Internet Explorer got it at Christmas time. Opera had it 7 years ago - yes, 7 years ago - and the Mozilla/Firefox products had it more than 5 years ago. That's a pretty fair indication of how far in front of IE they are.

Switching is dead easy: go to http://opera.com or, if you prefer, to http://mozilla.org and follow the prompts.

Don't forget with Adaware and Spybot you have to manually update the signatures to catch the latest little perishers.

OK Tony,

Well I am here on Firefox.

Security may be improved but my initial impression is that BT browser tabs work a whole lot better. I will need to spend a bit of time reading the Help file.

I have not yet found how to import bookmarks as mine are not stored in IE. So that will take a while to sort. I have managed to view my mailbox though, so that is progress.

Don

I must admit I did not like firefox on PC when I first tried it. I think its a case of familiarity where I was more familiar with IE so preferred that. Now I am a mac user firefox is great but not much different to IE except the spell checker works as you type therefore quicker to post in forums with having to click the 'abc' symbol to check spelling at the end of a reply.

I must put Firefox on my laptop pc!

I have notices the red dots underneath certain things in posts this evening. I have not read up on the spell checker yet. But with deliberate miss-spelling it does give you a clue.

EDJUCATED UNDAR A THORn TRE IN AFRIKA :rolleyes: :D :D

Don

Is there anyway to enable smooth text in FireFox?

Mac version shows smooth text automatically so does IE7 on PC but Firefox shows awkward jagged text :rolleyes:

Stephen,
Text looks no different on my screen. A few other things like the posting box do though. ( Outlines are far more pronounced ).

Also had my first oddball if you see my comment on Christine's Ladybird pic.

Don

Good for you, Don! Personally, I don't especially care for Firefox, and prefer Opera, followed by SeaMonkey. but I stress that I'm just talking personal taste in this. All three of the modern browsers are technically excellent, and just switching away from IE to one of them reduces your infection risk by a very significant factor. I estimate better than 50% risk reduction, although that very much depends on your other security habits.

Some revision: essentially there are 5 main ways that spyware and viruses get into your machine. (Not listed in order).

1: Direct infectors ("worms"). Use a firewall for near-100% protection. A hardware firewall is best, but the built-in Windows XP firewall works just fine.

2: Email attachments. This hasn't changed in many years: if you open the attachment to an email without checking it first, you are at high risk. Use a good, up-to-date anti-virus program, and don't just rely on it to catch everything, help it out by thinking before you open stuff. If in doubt, just delete it unread. (Show me the law that says you have to open every stupid email people send you.)

3: File sharing. Simple rule: don't do it. If you have to run (e.g.) Limewire to download movies or music from dodgy sources, do it on a second machine, either one you don't care about (it can be an old pile of junk running Windows 98 you can just format when it gets infected) or else on a non-Windows box that is pretty much immune to infection (a Linux machine, for example). Don't fileshare on your main machine.

4: Browser exploits. Internet Explorer is the big risk factor. Do not use IE. Use any of the three excellent modern browsers: Opera, Firefox, Seamonkey. Or all three if you like. I suspect that Opera may be the safest of the lot, but if so only by a small margin - all three are vastly in front of Internet Explorer.

5: Common sense. No matter which browser you use and how good your firewall is, if you deliberately download and run something nasty, it's got you. Think stuff through before you download. Is this a reputable source? What happens if I type "Product X" and "spyware" into Google? Am I sure that I'm at the genuine Product X site and not a fake one?

Well I have given it a go and totally agree. I have not even read the Help files as it is very similar to the BT browser as far as tabbed browsing goes, but with the addition of Speed Dial tab.

So I am now an Opera convert and busy creating my bookmarks in that.

Thanks for the Link :) :cool:

Don

Cool! Speed Dial is neat, isn't it.

One thing to watch out for: Opera is very customisable and out of the box it's rather different. If you are happy, that's great, but if you don't like something, it's quite likely that you can customise it. Some examples:

I find the default colour scheme pretty but a bit difficult: it's too hard, for example, to see the scroll bars on longer pages. TOOLS >> APPEARANCE >> WINDOWS NATIVE does the trick. (There are a zillion other skins you can download, most of them looking like a dog's breakfast, as user-provided skins so often do, but the boring, practical; "windows native" one suits most people just fine.)

I rarely use the fast forward and rewind buttons, nor the "new tab" one. Old-fashioned regular forward and back buttons, plus a stop/reload are all I need. Just right-click the button you don't want and select "remove from toolbar". (The less clutter, the better I like it.) Naturally, you can restore the missing ones, and add others too, if you change your mind.)

Opera defaults to starting up on the exact same pages you left it in last time. This is a neat feature (in fact there is a Firefox plug-in that mimics it), but I prefer to just start with a home page. TOOLS >> PREFERENCES >> pick whichever of five options you prefer.

Don't like the close buttons being sprinkled around in different places, one on every tab (Firefox 2 style)? TOOLS >> PREFERENCES >> ADVANCED >> TABS >> untick "show close buttton on each tab".

Want Opera to ask if you are sure before you shut it down? TOOLS >> PREFERENCES >> ADVANCED >> BROWSING >> tick "confirm exit"

There is heaps more, but these should get you started.

(Posted, by the way, using Firefox, which is my least favourite of the three modern browsers, but I tend to have so many things open at once that it helps me find stuff if I always visit particular sites using particular browsers. So here on WPF I'm a Firefox man. And although I like Opera the most, Firefox is still pretty good.)

PS: I bet there is a way to import your BT Browser bookmarks all in one go. Trouble is, by the time you figure it out, you could probably have just done it by hand. But you could try exporting them to a file (from inside the BT Browser) and then importing them from inside Opera.

I have spent loads of time setting up bookmarks etc. Well pleased with Opera and I will only use Firefox if I break it ............ so probably never.

Once again Tony thanks. This is dead easy to use/set up and just like an upgraded BT browser.

Proper multi tabbing with the advantage of the Speed Dial tab. No spell checker but then I didn't have one before.

Don

Bain of my life!
 

Agreed Firefox feels quite basic compared to Opera.

One thing I truly hate is having to enter all my details in a website before it trusts me to download anything or when purchasing online. Opera has a magic want that enters these details once setup.

Thanks to Opera I will enjoy hassle free browsing and the speedial feature is excellent.

All that after a quick look at my screen. :D :D :D

Don

Err.. yeah! (need srinking violet smiley) :D

shame there is no 'as you type' spell check.

My experience of Firefox only indicated I'd spelt it incorrectly. Still used the dictionary. Now I am on does it look right. :rolleyes:

Don

After a brief foray with Opera I found it a little slow and lumbering. Mac OS X seems to have Safari stitched into it just like Internet Explorer with Windows hence my preference in the Windows environment. However on Sarah's Laptop I have her running Opera because its security features - She is quite happy.

I noticed Safari 3 had been launched at Beta level and I never really try these things until fully launched but I have tried it and I find it much better than Opera in terms of speed. Safari 3 is fairly quick but not as quick as Internet Explorer on PC despite Apple's claims, it has the 'as you type' spell checker and forms autofill without having to click a wand (in Opera). I have just purchase something online as the form filled out instantly - hurrah!

So its standard old Safari for me, what more I found a short cut key press on a mac (COMMAND+TAB) which switches from Mail, Finder and Safari in a flash regardless of whats running at the time.