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Love the Nexus, hate the malware...

I seem to have aquired a rather large amount of malware since joining this community and the only thing that cures it is a malware sweep and not opening this page anymore. It's sad for me, but I will probably have to stay away from you guys until I get this malware thing figured out. Until then, have a spooky and safe Halloween and I hope that Santa doesn't steal anyone's snack items and milk while they're sleeping ;o)

-Laura

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Permalink Reply by Starscream on November 4, 2009 at 7:22pm

I've used firefox in the past, but right now I use Google Chrome web browser. I works great, I love the way the history, and bookmarks are done. I get almost no spyware/malware on my computer using it.

If you got a bad virus on your computer get malwarebytes software (for free from download.com) and run a full scan. Our IT department uses it all the time on work computers, it's really good. If you have problems running it, then you got one nasty virus but you might be able to install and run it from safemode. I've also used the microsoft liveone scanner from the microsoft security site, which runs over a live connection, so you have to run safemode with networking. This worked on my last virus, which had blocked malwarebytes from running at all.

For a virus/spyware scanner that runs all the time get AVG, which is free, it's very good, and you can schedule scans with it.

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Permalink Reply by Laura Largent on November 13, 2009 at 11:29am

I downloaded Safari and *poof* all my problems vanished... isn't Apple amazing? It should be worshiped as gods and people should kill each other over which macOS version was the best instead :P

I did try firefox, opera, and updated my IE (not the 8.0 beta, just the 7 update) and found that whatever was wrong with my computer definitely didn't like firefox at all! Opera was about as good as IE but the interface was completely different and I didn't have the patience to deal with it (however, I was really excited about syncing all my computers to my favorites and such, oh well) so I tried the IE update and it helped a little, but not 100%. While I was on Apple's website I remembered about their Safari and how awesome they're always saying it is, so I decided "why not?" and downloaded it. If I believed in magic or soul mates, this would be it, lol.

Thank you all for your concern and support. I am so grateful to have a place where I can go with my problems, no matter how trivial, and be showered with rational, positive reinforcement as well as help! Prayer doesn't fix computers. You guys are the best :D

Laura

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Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on November 17, 2009 at 1:49pm

Awww (on behalf of all the helpers) geez...

It helps when people (such as yourself) have issues with the site, and then report back what worked for them, so thanks!