TRACKING COOKIE FROM EXPLOROZ ? POSSIBLE ?

piggy

Nudie ,

I am a computer cretin , but I know if I disable all the cookies it will be a pain in the butt for the next couple of weeks when I go to all my favourite sites ( and the bride will do a bit of complaining too ). I will try to selectively get rid of some . I regularly delete my temp files .

I know that Exploroz has to have a cookie , but this seemed like something else again .

One thing I know for sure , ever since we took the upgrade on McAfee a couple of weeks ago , the puter takes three times as long to start up in the morning .

I would not get rid of it though as I know for sure that it has blocked viruses coming in twice .

Thanks ,

Willie

Vet works fine for me

Nudie ,

With a face like that , it's no wonder you go to the vet . Be careful though . Sometimes if you get a bad virus , they just put you to sleep .

If you ever see a sqirrel in the waiting room , come on over and say hello .

Willie .

When I bought a new laptop it was loaded with McAfee. I had all sorts of problems with it in particular their junk mail checker. The problems were not resolved by McAfee. I gave up and deleted it and I went back to Norton (which I have used since 1990) and have no problems since. My Mcafee subscription expired after 12 months. I am now have difficulty getting McAfee to acknowledge I no longer want to subscribe to their program.
Richard

We have the option within our browsers of enabling cookies only for our regular sites if you're concerned about them.

Richard,

Warning matey.

The mongrels billed me after 12 months on the same credit details I originally supplied them.

I eventually got it reversed but was still 4-5 bucks out of pocket.

I will use every opportunity I can now to tell everyone what a mongrel Company they are to try and communicate with.

speaking of them Sand Man...i havnt heard back....didnt expect to hahaha

Ray ( Mad Dog ),
Could you please tell me how to do that , if it is not too much trouble ?
Thanks ,
Willie .

"Recently I uninstalled both my virus protection programs, and guess what, my computer works faster and smoother than ever"

No offence, but if you were running 2 antivirus programs then thats most of your problem. There is no need/point in having more than 1 antivirus program. I am willing to bet that one of them was also Norton AV ??

I do this for a living - so I'd like to think I know what Im talking about when it comes to antivirus.

You cant blame an antivirus program for playing up if you were the person that had 2 of them running on the one system.

Jame B,

why should running two well-behaved AV programs be a problem?

They are notoriously obnoxious things as necessary as they are.

People these days might categorise things as AV but they might include malware, spyware and other similar s/w which should all be well enough behaved to work with each other.

I'm guess you know as well as any, that they are not.

Ciao for now
Andrew.

Andrew,

I am only referring to antivirus here - not spyware/malware removal programs.

Most people seem to know that antivirus is a "resource hog" that can slow a computer down. So why have 2 of them slowing your machine down? Do you want 2 of them to detect the same infected file? Are they both that bad that it takes 2 of them to do a 'proper' job?

What is the point of having 2? Its not like spyware removal where different programs detect different threats - the majority of antivirus programs will all detect the same threats - so apart from slowing your computer down - whats the point?

You will also find that they 'fight' with each other about how things on the system are to be controlled.

At the end of the day, if someone wants to put more than one antivirus program on their machine...thats their problem. But they then shouldnt complain when they find their PC slow and not running well.

Actually,

I'm surprised you can install two at once, without one or the other "spitting the dummy" and refusing to install.

Yes one is a Norton, and it's not the first time it's given me problems, but I've had a number of different ones over the years, anyhow(one at the time) that is just my experience and on my computer, if on yours there's no problem than that's good for you and I am happy for you:)

The last two I had at the same time were Norton(antivirus) and Spydoctor (antispy ware), but this would be unfair to point the finger at those two brands alone, I've worked on many computers solving software problems for many of my friends with many different antivirus and antispy programs. Like I said, this is my experience.

Only 1 worth having ,and that be the 1 ALL the others get their information from ,Mcfee / norton / avg ALL get their info from NOD32 by Eset ,an Australian owned and operated company ,why stuff around with anything else ? if you want you can try before you buy ,just get a copy of pc user, what $7 odd and give u a mth , bloody cheap !!!!

I worked in retail IT for many years and one of the BIGGEST problems on home PC's was ANTI virus software. They are a pain in the neck, badly written, inefficiant, and more unreliable than a lada niva.

I don't use one, have not for 10 years. I load one on every now and then, do a scan, remove anything suspicous and then un install it again.

Adaware is probally the best package out there, it's not an anti virus program, it an anti adware,malware etc type program, it's free and it get's rid of most of the everyday problems you'll get from surfing the web. Again, I just run it when I want it and leave nothing else running the rest of the time.

This is exactly what I do, it is by far the best way I've found in my personal experience. Install, scan, uninstall. My computer works beautifully.

David,

I've had a free program called "SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY" installed on my confuser for about two years now. It's a groovy little anti spyware program.

This "doubleclick" thingy is fairly common on the 'net. I find it associated with "news" type websites generally.

Up until about a month ago exploroz wasn't trying to serve me "doubleclick". Since about a month ago every time I open exploroz "doubleclick" is served up and spybot intercepts it. i just keep hitting "block" and the site runs as per normal. I think "doubleclick" is a tracking thingy of some sort.

Cheers
Stephen J.

Sorry, for those interested in spybot s & D please go to the following site:

Spybot

Cheers