On Saturday night my husband had trouble with my computer's Internet Explorer. He does a lot of You Tube watching and that kind of thing, so if anything is likely to go wrong he is usually involved. The next morning he had no trouble looking up something, but by the time I got on, the computer was practically a doorstop. My "Heather" section was frozen. I had to leave town for the entire day so couldn't deal with it. But when I came home and multiple reboots didn't make anything better I turned into a wreck! I literally felt like I was coming down with the flu again. I explained to my husband that this was the equivalent of his truck dying. He couldn't get to work and now, neither could I!
   The strange thing was it turned out I could get into the computer as the owner, just not as me. Eventually, after running virus scans that came up clean, cleaning out the recycler and cookies and running Ad-Aware, "Heather" started working again LATE last night. And today it's behaving pretty much like usual.
   Despite the fact that I was a computer programmer for 14 years, this kind of thing makes me feel crazed and helpless. And I really wanted a new washer/dryer rather than a new computer this spring. But, it looks like it is time, and time to buy a computer that I don't hook up to the Internet.
   Anyone have problems like this after starting to use MySpace and related websites? I joined MySpace last week, and was having a blast with it, but I know viruses can get passed around like candy there, and I'm always getting errors as I'm clicking on screens in it.
   Any advice?

 

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