Quote: Sir Alan "although Pandaghost wants to get rid of AVG now. .'" I may be wrong but I would say It isn't recommended that you have more than one anti virus software running on the same machine, if you want a second opinion without fully loading another programme there are a couple of on-line virus checkers, either one called trend micros housecall, or pandascan all they do is load a tine programme that allows it to scan your computer housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/ www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/ ... ctivescan/

Quote: Sir Alan "although Pandaghost wants to get rid of AVG now. .'" I may be wrong but I would say It isn't recommended that you have more than one anti virus software running on the same machine, if you want a second opinion without fully loading another programme there are a couple of on-line virus checkers, either one called trend micros housecall, or pandascan all they do is load a tine programme that allows it to scan your computer housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/ www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/ ... ctivescan/

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Hopeful all this will help you, but as general information


About a month ago I had the same problems, thought I had a virus, I had Kaspersky antivirus on my computer that I had downloaded from Barclays bank. This had been turned of and wouldn't run, for a few night I tried to load it again and other antivirus software but my computer wouldn't let me, in the end I first deleted everything of my computer that I didn't need programmes Exetera, then as a last ditch effort went to Microsoft's web sight and downloaded windows defender

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a few days later I tried to to buy something from play.com, never had a problem before but it kept knocking back my card. Tried it the next day but got the same problem, so I went to my online bank to make sure there was adequate funds, I had well enough for the purchase, BUT I noticed a withdrawal from O2 prepaid, I'm with Orange so new I hadn't spent that money, so phoned Barclays who put me straight through to there fraud department who cancelled my card straight away, (I believe that they had already cancelled it the day before but wouldn't admit to it)
The upshot being the fraudsters take a small amount to make sure the account is still active then empty it, fortunately I had checked, if I hadn't who knows, I now have a new card but according to the bank they are still trying to buy things with the cancelled card obviously they can't, they tell me the card was used either on-line or over the phone so it wasn't a case of them getting my pin number, the details were obviously gained when I have used it to buy thing on-line, but its funny that this happened around the same time as I had this virus,I'm not saying they are connected just be warned.

I have now reformatted my hard drive not a big job only took 45 minutes,

As I say these events may have nothing to do with each other, but to anybody who is suffering such computer problems, may I suggest checking your bank accounts on someone else's computer if you have been making any online purchases

Jack

I have Mozilla Firefox on Vista
Trying to upgrade my Real Player when i get to the bit to ACCEPT TERMS
nothing happens i click and no response same with the CANCEL button nothing.

I have to click the X in the corner and i can't update

What settings do i have to change anyone ?

McAfee is head and shoulders the best anti virus but if you dont want to fork out on anti virus stuff, just use trend house call every week. Google it

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you saying get XP ?

Yep, XP is head and shoulders above the rest, imo

to much hassle any other ideas

Quote: Wire_Yed_79 "to much hassle any other ideas'" Try uninstalling it and then downloading the latest version from the real player website. uk.real.com/realplayer/

Quote: Wire_Yed_79 "to much hassle any other ideas'" Try uninstalling it and then downloading the latest version from the real player website. uk.real.com/realplayer/

Microsoft should never have released VISTA, they have fleeced millions of people.

Windows 7 is however a great operating system, even at RC1 now it is very very stable and everything works out of the box

the I.T. support guy at work swears by vista he loves it. trouble is i only have a limited knowledge of the magic box

Quote: Wire_Yed_79 "Cheers Latchy See if anything on here helps you. www.vistax64.com/vista-music-pic ... vista.html

Quote: Wire_Yed_79 "Cheers Latchy See if anything on here helps you. www.vistax64.com/vista-music-pic ... vista.html