any computer wiz's here

[87lightweight]

everytime i am browsing a website on my internet explorer it just shuts down like you hit the esc button, sometimes it will stay up 5 minutes next time 2, everything else is working fine wtf

 

[no-nos]

did you check the control panel? check the power options icon, see if your settings are right, my monitor turn off after 20min of non use and my computer after 1hr of non-use. maybe your setting are wrong? wait i read it again your browser turns off not the computer right?

 

[klrv6]

XP or Vista? What version of IE? When it is running, go to help and the about tab will have the version number. All web sites or just some? Is your anti-virus up to date? What are you running for AV? All Windows updates applied? A good test is to let it sit on google.com and see if it crashes. You may have some infection that is hijacking IE I see that more than instability in the browser.

I keep IE and firefox on all my non-server machines at home. Download and run Firefox3 Mozilla | Firefox web browser & Thunderbird email client

 

[87lightweight]

windows xp, ie7 mcaffee av, i did the google thing and it still shut off, i believe it is something wrong with my internet explorer,
i was told mcafee is week if i get norton do you think it will still find the bug?

 

[gnxtc2]

When in dought, re-start.

Billy T.
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[klrv6]

AVG Free - Download antivirus and antispyware software for Windows XP and Vista

Download the free version, uninstall your current anti-virus, install this and let do the updates and then scan your computer. If IE is still broken, you may need to download and reinstall the browser. Did you get firefox yet?

 

[GNBRETT]

AVG Free - Download antivirus and antispyware software for Windows XP and Vista

Download the free version, uninstall your current anti-virus, install this and let do the updates and then scan your computer. If IE is still broken, you may need to download and reinstall the browser. Did you get firefox yet?

What's ur opinion on the AVG internet security disc compared to other similar programs of that nature. I have XP.

My computer lately has been freezing up completely. I'm wondering if I have some spyware or unkown virus in there.

 

[robk46]

Put Firefox on it and see if it still happens. You're most probably hijacked. There are lots of nasties out there that most anti-virus and anti-spyware won't get.

 

[klrv6]

What's ur opinion on the AVG internet security disc compared to other similar programs of that nature. I have XP.

My computer lately has been freezing up completely. I'm wondering if I have some spyware or unkown virus in there.

I've been running at home for almost nine years now and have never had a problem with it. Yes, it will pop up on some web pages if a trojans or viri try to download. I have installed it in a few business environments with huge success rates. Even at my work where Sophos is a mandated company standard, I run AVG instead. I've run almost a dozen different AV programs and have had fewer issues with AVG and never has it let a virus through. No program can protect against a person who infects their machine because of lack of patching and general common sense with the web and email. And it's free for home use. The internet security goes a few steps beyond normal protection.

If yours has been freezing up completely, backup everything to USB drive or dvd now. It's not always the operating system with the problem. Your hard drive may be on it's way out. If it is XP acting up, run msconfig from the start > run box. click on the startup tab and uncheck everything that really doesn't need to load and lines without a path or description. Reboot the machine, click the check box on the pop-up window and hit OK. You would be surprised and the kind of junk that legitimate programs try to load.

 

[GNBRETT]

I've been running at home for almost nine years now and have never had a problem with it. Yes, it will pop up on some web pages if a trojans or viri try to download. I have installed it in a few business environments with huge success rates. Even at my work where Sophos is a mandated company standard, I run AVG instead. I've run almost a dozen different AV programs and have had fewer issues with AVG and never has it let a virus through. No program can protect against a person who infects their machine because of lack of patching and general common sense with the web and email. And it's free for home use. The internet security goes a few steps beyond normal protection.

If yours has been freezing up completely, backup everything to USB drive or dvd now. It's not always the operating system with the problem. Your hard drive may be on it's way out. If it is XP acting up, run msconfig from the start > run box. click on the startup tab and uncheck everything that really doesn't need to load and lines without a path or description. Reboot the machine, click the check box on the pop-up window and hit OK. You would be surprised and the kind of junk that legitimate programs try to load.

Kool, Thnx.

 

[regal-nut]

The same stuff was happen to me to . so the wife put the fox fire on it and PRESTO all the pup ups stoped and the shutting off stoped and now we are happer then bug in the rugs

 

[87lightweight]

well thanks for the help but i just bit the bullet and bought the norton av, found alot of crap the mcaffee missed and my computer is working great, will do the firefox next!

 

[Weester]

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