I have officially made the switch from Explorer to Firefox. Wife inadvertently picked up a virus on our desktop computer. She is apparently not as adept at searching for porn as I am. I have already ruined a computer, and have learned from it.
Anyways, I came home one day and there was a dripping-gold BIOHAZARD symbol with a yellow background on the desktop. I ran spybot, updated the new version of IE, and lucky enough, was able to get it under control. We talked about sending the computer out to have the hard drive cleaned and reset ($150 btw), we talked about buying virus protection products ($40-$50), but spybot mostly did the trick.
The only vestige of the virus manifested itself in Google. Every time I'd google something, it'd bring up the search entries, but when I clicked on the search entries, it'd redirect me to some BS alternative search engine. And the back button on the browser didn't bring you back. Anyway, it would work about 20% of the time. Annoying.
I switched to Mozilla, and there are no more problems with that. I still have problems with the virtual memory and all that, and videos are SLOW (especially when running multiple applications) but I think we can still get another few years out of this comp. Gotta go b/c I'm playing an SNG
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