my system is vista home basic. a few days ago it started taking longer
to navigate to sites. i noticed on the bottom toolbar a symbol. the
symbol was a "phishing filter". should i leave it alone and put up with
the delay or can i disable and have few worries?
thanks for the help,
TD
probably need to do a virus scan on your pc...
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "TD" <tdavenport51@...> wrote:
my system is vista home basic. a few days ago it started taking longer
to navigate to sites. i noticed on the bottom toolbar a symbol. the
symbol was a "phishing filter". should i leave it alone and put up with
the delay or can i disable and have few worries?thanks for the help,
TD
i killed that thing immediately
--- On Fri, 9/19/08, TD <tdavenport51@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: TD <tdavenport51@yahoo.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] off subject computer advice needed
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 9:27 AM
my system is vista home basic. a few days ago it started taking longer
to navigate to sites. i noticed on the bottom toolbar a symbol. the
symbol was a "phishing filter". should i leave it alone and put up with
the delay or can i disable and have few worries?
thanks for the help,
TD
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The phishing filter will not slow you down very much. However, you should also see "protected mode" down on the bottom. This WILL slow you to a crawl. Make sure you have "protected mode" turned off.
-----Original Message-----
From: TD <tdavenport51@yahoo.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:27 am
Subject: [vpFREE] off subject computer advice needed
my system is vista home basic. a few days ago it started taking longer
to navigate to sites. i noticed on the bottom toolbar a symbol. the
symbol was a "phishing filter". should i leave it alone and put up with
the delay or can i disable and have few worries?
thanks for the help,
TD
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TD wrote:
my system is vista home basic. a few days ago it started taking
longer to navigate to sites. i noticed on the bottom toolbar a
symbol. the symbol was a "phishing filter". should i leave it alone
and put up with the delay or can i disable and have few worries?
Some information that will help you better understand the problem and
potentially resolve it:
"td body snipped"
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter" <harry.porter@...> wrote
Some information that will help you better understand the problem and
potentially resolve it:
Thanks, MR. Porter the link was very helpful and solved the delay.
TD
Your system may be slowed down by a TSR program. (terminate and stay
resident). Often, when you install updates or new software, you also
get a memory hogging TSR program loaded at startup.
Go to START>>> RUN>>> type in "msconfig".... go to the "START UP" tab
and you will be able to see all the programs that load onto your
computer at startup. You can disable any that you dont use by
unchecking the box. You might find programs like disk labeling and
automatic updating of little used programs (realAudio, quicktime) that
you can disable, free memory, and speed up your browsing. You might
also check your virus software to make sure it is not checking for
updates hourly or daily. Weekly checks for any program update is
sufficient.
If you are using FireFox, update to the newest version.... the older
versions had a memory hole... meaning it used more and more memory as
you browsed, slowing the machine. Also, check your browser plug-ins
or add-ons. Even though you are not using or displaying the Yahoo
Toolbar, it will use memory and processing power. Dont just delete it
from the browser window, remove it from the computer.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "TD" <tdavenport51@...> wrote:
my system is vista home basic. a few days ago it started taking longer
to navigate to sites. i noticed on the bottom toolbar a symbol. the
symbol was a "phishing filter". should i leave it alone and put up with
the delay or can i disable and have few worries?thanks for the help,
TD