(03-15-2016, 02:20 PM)Grandote Wrote: Some of the "threats" they detect are just adware, which is not so good but not harmful, or cookies so they can track you and give you ads. Ever wonder why when you are looking to buy something online and do a search or two on it, everywhere you go you see ads for it? Thats because google tracks you, puts super cookies on your computer that sites which pay google can use. The cookies tell them what you are looking for so they can target you with ads. I try to use duckduckgo instead of google because it doesn't do that.

I leave my computer on overnight so I don't have to mess with it in the morning but after a week or two it starts running slowly. A restart will perk it back up. Often a window will 'wear out' so to speak. The website I was watching on it will freeze up or something. Closing the window and opening a new one usually fixes that. IE is especially vulnerable to that. I sometimes have to close all IE windows and reopen. If I shut down the computer with the power button or by pulling the plug, I can restore the pages I had open when I restart it. But if I shut down "properly" by selecting shut down, when it starts again all the windows are lost and must be found again.

Revo uninstaller is a good program but expensive. They have a trial version. When you uninstall a program via windows, it usually leaves behind some traces which may mess you up. Good old gates and his garbage OS. My next computer will have linux on it. I plan to have a partition and put windoz on the other part so I can run games and certain progs. The only thing gates was good at was creating a semi monopoly to the point he conned software makers into only working with his crap system. He also persuaded computer makers to include windoz. Once you get to that point you can milk the public without ever giving them a good OS. Now he is conning the world into thinking he is a saint because he gives away some vaccines but makes a killing selling them. Its all marketing. A modern day robber baron.