hd= highly distressed said:
Hi and thank you for reading. my computer for the most part is functioning
properly, it will not display web pages. it will display however bank sites
like rbc.com and so on. i ran the diagnostic tool said a winsock was bad and
asked to fix it, i did and restarted, but nothing has changed? i was using
shaw secure free antivirus, and it wouldnt connect to update antivirus stuff.
any help or suggestiongs much appreciated
I'd never heard of Shaw Secure, before but a quick Google brought me to this:
http://www.asksomeone.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4473
Here's a snippet of somebody asking if it's any good from that site:
Well...I could probably get fired for this. :unsure: I'm a TSR for Shaw and have
spent many countless hours on the phone troubleshooting a very wide assortment of
problems with Shaw Secure. Will I run it on my own systems...not on your life. When
we have to take customers to online scanners on the web to remove what Shaw Secure
detects but can't remove has to say a lot about how effective it is.
For free AV either stick with AVG or try Avast. If you don't mind paying for AV go
with Nod32...that's what I use and I've been extremely impressed with it. Purchase a
router to eliminate the need for firewall software. Use Ad-Aware and Spybot on a
weekly basis and finally, take advantage of the various online scanners to double
check that your programs are doing their job.
Also from this site where another person was thinking of switching to Shaw Secure
because it's free:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080924153202AAiM52V
NO dont do it..you are fine where you are . Shaw will not stand behind
you and it will be nothing but grief There are lots of anti virus set ups to
uuse..and the one you already have is very good
been there done that
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~Gary
