Thanks for your Suggestions
"about kaspersky, i would have no clue on its mechanics since i've never used it before but as advice i give to people who ask for it, have you tried shooting an email to the guys there about the cpu hogging issue? i think they are more able and qualified to answer for this, especialy if you're a paying customer... by the way.. have you tried to see what happens if you use task manager to set flag it on low priority process?
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Yeah, I've had a long, vexatious conversation with them on the subject. THey haven't found a way to totally fix it yet, but it is reduced significantly, especially if I don't let AV load at startup, and instead load it manually in windows once it's fully booted up. Sounds like a coding issue either on their part, Microsoft's, or that something is damaged on my system and causing a problem your guess is as good as mine. And, yes, I did try to lower the task priority....it locks out of doing that, both in Task Manager and the Services applet. It also won't let you End Task on them, which is highly unfortunate should they lock up, because then you can't End Task of them to get rid of them to either try to reload, or to reboot and refresh whatever went wrong.
"if you do consider third-party apps, then why dont you base it on the reputation of the product in question, and read a few reviews as well, and maybe use the trail version of the app. And if you'd take a survey here, most of the guys/gals use firefox or opera, due to it not having activex controls, and thus limiting what languages bad people can exploit, and when it does lock out a site that you know 100% with all your heart that its legit, then by all means use IE for that particular site..."
I will consider that. But really, a lot of sites use Active X legitimately, and I'd rather not have to play musical browsers unless ABSOLUTELY necessary.
"d/l a hacked version from a p2p source (trusted or not, hacked means unknown contents; refer to the story of the greek's Trojan Horse) and can quite easily backfire off you if you do and that is a point to be made. Joke or not about doing such stuff, especialy related to piracy here, some people are real serious about it, and like most jokes written, without one person knowing the other personaly may be easily misinterpreted as being a literal meaning (i'm sure we've had it before), and RBS probably has more than his fair share fixing unpaid pc problems relating to i.net nasties that would have just said 'use common sense' and would pull rank if he has to (i dont blame him, i go nuts when my sister does the same mistake on my pc the 10th million time)."
Hmm, I DID explain the sort of things I try to get for people, and they aren't unreasonble...Windows XP CDs for people who have valid legit OEM #s they bought and whose CD goes bad or their mobo dies and they are stuck with a uselsess restore partition or restore CDs from a major manufacturer, apps and games with the same proviso above, etc.
And when it isn't that, like I said, I am being cautious by trying before I buy. Money is a precious resource on my limited income, and the software store's paranoid no returns policy means that if you buy an app or game and despite the hype, it well and truly sucks, or simply won't work with your hardware config, you are stuck with it and out the money it cost. Not at ALL a fair or reasonable thing, I say.
And DO note that I aplogized to the moderator for some of my harshness...you may have sent this post before it appeared in this part of the forum.
"like i said, i dont use kaspersky, nor do i use zone alarm, firefox, nor spybot's active teatimer and any other fancy stuff. but i do use AVG, adaware scan every week to remove tracker cookies, spybot scans every week to reassure my self, and IE7beta2 (which by the way if you're interested, has its own anti-phishing filter, AND TABS , but dont get it untill the official ones released) and havent got any sort of nasties for a long time (few years by now..) apart from the said cookies above."
Hmm, there's something to be said for that approach. I have Kaspersky Antivirus, EZArmor Firewall, and EZArmor Pest Control (the latter of which, I gather, does in real time what Adaware and Spybot makes you waste hours on in manual scans). I'm HOPING, once I've somehow got this AV issues sorted, I'll be set and protected from hackers...who I wish would put their obvious talent to good use, like tormenting corporate CEOs and televangelists with bad toupees, or even Bill Clinton (just because they CAN, and that's the reason Bilk gave for the Monica deal....tit for tat, I always say.).
Have a good one, all, and God bless.
