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liam.kirsh

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My sister is still using Internet Explorer 6. I tried to get her to change to Firefox or at least IE7, but she won’t. She’s afraid that if she installs anything on her computer it will slow it down.

She doesn’t have a virus scanner, either. Last time she got adware on her computer I couldn’t remove it fast enough, so she just reformatted.

What should I do? I use her computer too, occasionally, and IE6 is really buggy.

I don’t think it’s worth installing more RAM.

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The Clue 16 #
Minot, ND, US | 1 year, 10 months ago (59 minutes after post)

If your PC seems like its slowing down or having a hard time surfing the web or just doesn’t seem right.
You should go to http://download.com and get these programs. AD-Aware, Spybot search and destroy, CCleaner and and if you dont have an Antivirus program you can use Avast or AVG, and for your firewall a good program is Zone Alarm. Install these programs and run them regulary. This will keep your system clean and running properly. These programs are free and Download.com is a part of CNET (the site that your posting on right now). Hope this helps :-)

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liam.kirsh 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 10 months ago (1 hour, 17 minutes after post)

The Clue wrote:
If your PC seems like its slowing down or having a hard time surfing the web or just doesn’t seem right.
You should go to http://download.com and get these programs. AD-Aware, Spybot search and destroy, CCleaner and and if you dont have an Antivirus program you can use Avast or AVG, and for your firewall a good program is Zone Alarm. Install these programs and run them regulary. This will keep your system clean and running properly. These programs are free and Download.com is a part of CNET (the site that your posting on right now). Hope this helps :-)

Did you read my post at all? No offense, but you sound like a bot.

She doesn’t want to download anything, because she thinks it will slow down her computer by using memory.

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The Clue 16 #
Minot, ND, US | 1 year, 10 months ago (6 hours, 22 minutes after post)

She doesn’t have a virus scanner, either. Last time she got adware on her computer I couldn’t remove it fast enough, so she just reformatted.

What should I do? I use her computer too, occasionally, and IE6 is really buggy.

That is what I read and no I’m not a bot. lol Hope this helps :-)

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Michael Leibman 3 #
Littleton, CO, US | 1 year, 10 months ago (8 hours, 57 minutes after post)

She does have a point, in that following the Microsoft upgrade path means moving to bigger programs which take more memory and require faster hardware components.

On the other hand, IE7 is at least prettier, the tab-system is somewhat functional and
there are very few people who advise using Windows without some sort of virus-scanner or at least firewall.

But, like you say, it’s her computer, perhaps all the defensive measures she feels she needs to take are to keep you from infecting it with sibling germs.

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The Clue 16 #
Minot, ND, US | 1 year, 10 months ago (11 hours, 50 minutes after post)

Thank you Oldfart. Applicate the vote of confidence, according to his statement it was the most logical path to follow. :-)

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Anonymous #
1 year, 10 months ago (15 hours, 27 minutes after post)

please just talk to her and tell her everything logical, it’s not really that bad. if you’re really THAT desperate, then i would suggest changing it for her and showing her rather than telling her how much better it is.

Hope that helps a little!

Times' gone mad 6 #
Silver Spring, MD, US | 1 year, 10 months ago (15 hours, 35 minutes after post)

Have you considered asking if you could download Adaware & avast (I use avast home it’s very through and free, you just have to register for it)tell her you want to run these programs to see if it makes the computer go faster without spending money on RAM quite yet. Also I would advise defragging. All these things will take hours—but in the long run it’s worth it, believe me.

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Jiro 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 10 months ago (15 hours, 36 minutes after post)

Good idea, Times…

Times' gone mad 6 #
Silver Spring, MD, US | 1 year, 10 months ago (15 hours, 38 minutes after post)

Avast found a worm on my system that we think killed one of my harddrives…and could have hurt the new one we JUST bought. Which woulda been sad.

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liam.kirsh 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 10 months ago (5 days, 17 hours after post)

Her computer is not slow, and she doesn’t have any adware, so she doesn’t think there is any reason to change anything,

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liam.kirsh 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 10 months ago (5 days, 18 hours after post)

Most likely it is infected with spyware and/or viruses, but not enough to really affect the speed of her computer.

When I was running a scan before she reformatted it said she had like 300 instances of malware.

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