Pats 22 years oldhe's worrying long before his time.
22? I have socks older than that! Pat, raise hell while you can youngster!

ETA: WooHoo! How bout them Cards!!
Pats 22 years oldhe's worrying long before his time.
My heart goes out to Dennis tonight since I just learned he had prostate cancer. Now I'm starting to wonder if I should get checked out because I've never had an exam and I'm middle-aged so it's weighing on my mind. I suppose two reasons I've put it off were because frankly, I'm just not prepared for more bad news right now (being oblivious to reality has its place sometimes) and for some dude poking 'n proding where the sun don't shine. Makes ya wanna say, "Hold up Doc, aren't ya gonna buy me dinner first?"
Lizardnipples.
RHP
Pat, I felt the same way about a prostate exam until one of my best friends lost his dad to prostate cancer which has a high cure rate if caught early. It isn't a big deal. The doc talked me into getting a colonoscopy done, also not a big deal. Just do it and be done with it!
my brother, it's just something ya gotta do once ya turn 40.
just check the size of your doc's hands and make sure he has a nice wink...
Lizardnipples
Thanks Johni 'n Dennis I'm going to schedule an appointment next week hopefully it won't cost me a lot of money either. As long as it doesn't take weeks and weeks to get the results, that's all that matters in the end.
You know, it's pretty cool that as a result of meeting some of you folks who live inside my iPad, I may save myself from more pain, poverty and disease down the road.
ETA: Darrel is just funning with ya'll. I'm 35 not 22
RHP
ETA: Darrel is just funning with ya'll. I'm 35 not 22
RHP
i never click on anything in emails from people that i do know either, until i've thoroughly analyzed it beforehand.
none of my family or friends are anywhere near as geeky as me, so most of the exploits i receive are from them...
Few weeks ago DH had his online Yahoo account frozen. Bad news when you are traveling and have to depend on phone for email. He had opened a link in an email, on his phone, that appeared to be from Yahoo. Yahoo froze his account, for "suspicious activity" and he had deleted any emails from them for me to see what was going on. Luckily he did forward one email to me to get some idea for when called support to reactivate. I had to do a service call to yahoo and then ATT our provider to get it unlocked. (Yahoo tech was finishing his shift and I think the support closing for night. The Yahoo support was US based but ATT not. I had a lot of trouble communicating with off-shore tech and I knew what what info she needed. They would normally do a conference call, the three of us, but luckily I knew enough to do the call to ATT myself but only after he gave the the direct number to call. It's the pits that it's so hard to find phone numbers to many providers, banks, etc. to talk directly to human who can really do anything.) (AND I DETEST EVERYTHING BEING SO SYMBIOTIC NOW. NO WAY TO GET DIRECTLY TO ATT via phone; only email support!!!!) I had no idea why account frozen as he had deleted the real emails from provider(s). In meantime I set him up yet another gmail account so he could get his important emails until I got his account unlocked. It was a frigg'n hassle. I've set up Thunderbird so he can get emails on his computer without wiping them off ATT server but he won't use it. I guess it's up to me to do it for him when he's out of town. Almost impossible to get him to leave his recliner when he's home to get on his computer.
BE VERY CAREFUL DOING A SEARCH ON GOOGLE FOR LEGIT FREE PROGRAMS. SOME OF THE LINKS REDIRECT YOU TO SITES THAT WILL INSTALL A BUNCH OF OTHER PROGRAMS, MOST MALWARE. Unwanted browser redirection programs. All kinds of bad things can happen. I just removed VAF from DH's computer. Bad bad.
And his Win8 won't start up safe mode using shift+F8 (just F8 for previous versions) Had to find DOS prompt window on Win8 and how many peeps know to do a change directory so can run MSConfig???!!!! I put a classic desktop and simulated Start Button on for him but it doesn't have run command line in Start.
MS has hidden so many things in Win8. I'm still learning it.
Why people just don't backup when things are running great so it can be loaded when things crap out I'll never understand.
+1 Avast
Norton=Bloatware
do you only have one browser? before installing all that other stuff, you might try downloading Firefox or Chrome, and see if that helps.
even if it doesn't help, that will be useful info for Her Royal Feistiness
If you had norton on there, and did the simple un-install, you didn't completely remove norton. That is the reason it is still slow. Norton is still trying to control everything on your computer.
I'll do a Norton cleanup on her computer, remotely, Sunday.
short version- yes...
i use MSSE on all my Win7 stuff (as well as my newest Win8 box, which i detest). i have a few XP machines floating around that use Avast.
i might actually have more computers than Reos, tho the day of reckoning is coming...