Bill: The run has been going on for nearly an hour and a half now, still running. Is that reasonable considering the size of my HDD (80 GB)?...
Bill: By saying "This tool will take several minutes to run," you weren't kidding. It started about 35 minutes ago and still running. Or at...
Bill: Thanks for replying. I don't have ZA 6.5. I did, but it recently started giving me trouble (I think it was with RegSeeker 1.52) so I...
Today MS notified me that the IE7 update was available for me. It went through the download routine OK, but after the install process there was...
Thanks to both of you for replying. Shortly after submitting my post yesterday I moved the router up on top of my computer, giving it a much...
Would a router's wi-fi signal be compromised by its physical closeness to a monitor or a hard-wired computer or an audio speaker? My desktop...
Some interesting developments. I'll leave my signature showing this time so the details of my system will be more readily available. I tried...
Finally got around to running the System File Checker Tool (sfc /scannow). Found nothing, was asked nothing. Wondered if maybe something was...
Charles: That's pretty much the conclusion I was clumsily arriving at. When I first entered into this process I didn't realize my XP CD had SP2...
Rockster2U: Glad to have more comparisons. It's becoming clear something is wrong with my system, and it seems to be outside of Spybot rather...
I'm surprised there haven't been more people adding posts to this thread. There are a number of IT types here that are far more knowledgeable...
Charles: If you mean a repair install of Spybot and/or Ad-Aware -- no, I haven't. It would be easy enough. If that's what you mean, should the...
Check this out: http://www.kickstartnews.com/reviews/utilities/spinrite_v6.html
Charles: I first became aware of having problems about a week ago when I got hit by a virus and at least one trojan when I foolishly accepted an...
Charles: Thanks for joining in. The setting was at Normal, so I changed it to Higher. Started a scan and after 10 minutes it was at 3770/48038,...
James: Welcome to the thread. Not exactly sure what you mean by that, since Smart Scan is an Ad-Aware process rather than a Spybot scan. In...
JohnB: Interesting idea. So I decided to go whole hog. I shut off my browser, NAV and ZA, and turned off my modem and router (for my wife's...
Mozilla will release the second major version of its Firefox browser on Tuesday, October 24. Details here:...
I knew that running 2 firewalls wasn't right but I didn't realize that running 2 AV programs was a no-no. So I shut off AVG. Thinking that...
Thanks, everybody, for replying. More are welcome to join in. TeMerc: I'll try minimizing Spybot, but later. I don't want to start something...
Separate names with a comma.
