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I think the Norton Internet Security Suite is good, Been using it since the release of the 2009 version. No problems at all with it slowing down the computer and from what I've read in AV testing sites, reasonable detection and false positive figures (although fortunes vary over a period of...

Amazon is a good place to look for the Norton Internet Security suite. It's about £28-00 at present but I have seen it going for less than that. I paid around £24-00 for a 3 licence disk last renewal time. It was around the same the year before that.

It might be better to use a drawing program for making posters. They are a bit more comprehensive in design options than Word. Just click and drag text to the right size for instance. Good borders and backgrounds are easily added too. Serif offer a free starter drawing program (DrawPlus) with...

I'd say to get a new computer because you fancy one but not just because the one you have at present has software faults on it that you can't sort out. 5 to 7 years is a fair length of time to have a computer. The specifications of computers can improve 5 to 7 months after buying one let...

No matter what the choice of AV or Anti-spyware programs are, they all have a failure rate. Malware infection threads such as this one prove that. Even people using well-respected realtime monitoring or scanning programs are still getting infected. When that happens, it is often the case that...

My grandchildren are allowed to use the computer for their game sites but I realised the danger of them downloading something nasty. My own safeguards against this are: * To use Sandboxie to isolate the browser. If anyone (including me) does come across anything nasty, it should stay...

Is the time, date and year set OK? That would affect your cookie and maybe cause the problem.

Doesn't matter empip. I was going to link to that myself but wasn't sure if the OS was XP. I thought there was a resizer of the same type for use with Vista and W.7 as well. Found and linked to it.

For simple resizing, you could consider using this: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/30247

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Cookies can't know your e-mail address and therefore lead to spamming, although companies dealt with who have been given your e-mail address could pass it on to others. True that tracking cookies can track you around the Internet though, most often for the purposes of showing adverts. I don't...

I've been using it for a few years now as primary protection. I wouldn't like to browse without it. I trust it enough to click on any link without worry and with no restrictions on scripts but it takes a time to gain that sort of confidence. I can understand why others might not be so trusting...

With both Windows and Mac, you can write letters, run spreadsheets, browse the Internet, use e-mail, run photo and art programs, play games and do a whole host of other things. The end result is just the same whatever system is used. With that in mind, a less expensive Windows computer is an...

Too true. I hope I won't be too annoying if I mention sandboxing again but it is an effective way of doing just that. I've had a couple of occasions when I've clicked on an innocent looking link and then the browser started behaving peculiarly. It once just shut down to a small grey advertisng...

Just to clarify the 'restore with disk image' part, just in case it's thought I meant System Restore. It's more something made with Acronis, Ghost, Macrium etc. The entire working system gets cloned to DVD, a spare partition or hard disk while the system is working well. When anything goes wrong...

I think it could be the case that no AV program is entirely up to protecting a computer these days. Only a reasonable job can be expected of any of them in my opinion. You can visit many security forums and read of cases where it's claimed that a program didn't protect against a virus or other...

I've used or tried most of the security programs mentioned apart from PCguard. Even so, I have come to prefer Norton (NIS 2010 - upgraded from NIS 2009). I trialled it for a while based on research of detection rates and various comparison tables/reviews and ended up paying for a year's...

Just experimented with the above and it doesn't do the trick unfortunately. I know there must be a reason why you want to open a browser window outside of the sandbox when clicking on an e-mail link with Firefox already running sandboxed. However, it may be best to always open links sandboxed...

If you're using the paid (registered) version, open the Sandboxie Window and go to 'Sandbox > Default Box > Sandbox Settings'. Click the '+' sign next to 'Applications' and then the '+' sign next to 'Web Browsers'. Cilck 'Firefox'. If there's a '+' sign where it says 'Force Firefox to run in...

I have recovered from this in the distant past using these instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 I think it will need the original installation disk though and an Administrator password (if one was used when installing XP) in order to get into the Recovery Console. You could...