Yahoo email

[max]

it is taking five minutes for a page to turn in yahoo email. I think I may have a virus as it only started doing this a few days ago. Everything else to do with this PC is fast and no problem. I have run....Ad-aware. Spybot and Search, Spyblaster and I also have Zonealarm. When I booted up this morning, the Windows update page came up and I downloaded its recommendation of securing Internet explorer Browser. Any ideas?

[EdipisReks]

run an antivirus program and stop using internet explorer.

[max]

how do I get another browser? other than explorer. The cable company I am with set it up on Internet explorer, will this make a difference if I change

[Graham]

You can get Mozilla from their website (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/)

It's worth the effort and shouldn't make any difference to your cable co.

You don't remove Internet Explorer when you install another browser you just have two. So if you have problems with the second, just stop using it.

Graham

[max]

well. I downloaded mozilla and it is weird. Each time I want a web I type it and click on search and it puts me to google and I then have to select again. Plus when i want another section of JREF a window comes up asking do i want the page.
It took over one minute to get onto the net whereby explorer takes seconds. Is this normal? BTW I did detect and get rid of a virus in the yahoo email thanks. I did that with panda anti virus

[Soapy Sam]

Max- Google "OPERA" and "Firebird". Alternative browsers.

Try and see what you like best.

[max]

soapy
can you uninstall them though. I find there is no option to uninstall mozilla

[shanek]

Sure, there is. Just go into Add/Remove Programs and remove it as normal.

I have no idea why you're experiencing the behavior you are. I use Mozilla here all the time with no problems.

[walthrup48]

Originally posted by max
it is taking five minutes for a page to turn in yahoo email.

I had the same problem and am running on Netscrape (and up-to-date A/V s/w). Seems ok now.

[EdipisReks]

Originally posted by max
well. I downloaded mozilla and it is weird. Each time I want a web I type it and click on search and it puts me to google and I then have to select again. Plus when i want another section of JREF a window comes up asking do i want the page.
It took over one minute to get onto the net whereby explorer takes seconds. Is this normal? BTW I did detect and get rid of a virus in the yahoo email thanks. I did that with panda anti virus

that is because the address bar doubles as the google search bar. when you click "search" you are telling mozilla that you want to search for the term with google. if you just want to go to a website, type in the address and then hit enter. it is only when you hit "tab" or the "down arrow" or manually go to "search" that it goes to google. you may want to try mozilla firefox, as it separates the search and address bars. at this point in its development, i don't consider Opera worth using.

[Soapy Sam]

Max- yes, both can be uninstalled via the usual windows remove software method.
Opera downloads fsar faster if you don't need Java. Safer without it in my opinion.

[EdipisReks]

Originally posted by Soapy Sam
Max- yes, both can be uninstalled via the usual windows remove software method.
Opera downloads fsar faster if you don't need Java. Safer without it in my opinion.

i disagree. with a firewall and the proper settings, java can be perfectly safe.

[max]

Thanks everybody. I have uninstalled Mozilla as I just didn't like it plus the red logo it has took over all 'My Documents' even pictures I've had stored for a couple of years had this Mozilla icon.
I did a virus scan prog using Pandasoftware and it found and destroyed 20 viruses altogether in the system. There was just one of them in the email and that's gone now , so the service is speedy again.

[shanek]

Originally posted by max
Thanks everybody. I have uninstalled Mozilla as I just didn't like it plus the red logo it has took over all 'My Documents' even pictures I've had stored for a couple of years had this Mozilla icon.

That's the file associations. When Mozilla installs, it gives you an option as to which files it can open that you want it associated with. So you may want it associated with, for example, .html and .htm files, but not .jpg and .gif files. So you just check the ones you want, and if you don't want it associated with your graphics just make sure those boxes are unchecked and it'll leave them alone.

This is just an association in the Windows registry telling Windows what program to use to open what types of files. It has not modified your actual files in any way at all.

[max]

Shanek
Thanks. I'm too much of a novice to understand these things and so I can't start changing things, and in any case my memory is getting that bad now, that I can't remember where everything is and which prog I use to change things, so it's best that I use the simplist system I can. Thanks Shanek anyhow for putting my mind at rest. I thought Mozilla was going to be as bad as MSN as that takes over everything

[EdipisReks]

if you are going to continue using IE, i would suggest getting the Google pop-up blocking toolbar, if you haven't already.

[max]

Thanks Edi, yes I did do the google bar because De_bunk recommended it on another thread, I think it was on the community board. I have Ad-aware too, does that do the same thing?