Changing operating system, won’t help you, if you stay with any version of Windows. You need to either tighten down your IE settings, or switch to a different browser. I highly recomend Firefox.
Do you have cable? Most cable companies offer high spped internet along with cable any more. It’s similar to DSL as far as speed but there are a couple of differences. First, if a lot of people in your neighbor hood have cable internet and all get on line at the same time, your speed will lsow down. However, it will most likely still be much higher than dial up.
Second, when cable interent goes down, you can’t’ just go watch tv because cable is down also. It would be a good time to go work on your trains, however. Compare the reliability of cable to your telephone.
Cable, DSL compared to dial-up is like the difference between night and day. I had dial up for so many years, I can remember upgrading to the speedy 14000 modems and thought that was the Internet super highway back in 1995. Well I made the switch to DSL back in 1998 and just moved over to cable about two years ago. I love cable internet, blazing speeds and even faster than most networks I have been working on the past 7 years.
I have cable internet and agree with the first part but on the second part I don’t. Most of the time on the rare occasions that my modem is not working, like last night, the cable tv was still on…
XP alone won’t help with the spyware. SP2 has a firewall but it would still be a good idea to get either a software based or hardware based firewall as well. There are a couple of programs that if run frequently, should keep your computer pretty spyware free.
I use a combination of AdAware, Spybot and Microsoft AntiSpyware. They are all free downloads and as long as you update them at least once a week and run them a couple times a week depending on your internet usage, they keep you protected for the most part. MS AntiSpyware runs every day automatically on my machines and I usually run the other two every other day on each machine.
You also need good updated antivirus as well.
As someone said, the “always on” high speed connection is a lot more attractive to would-be h
XP alone won’t help with the spyware. SP2 has a firewall but it would still be a good idea to get either a software based or hardware based firewall as well. There are a couple of programs that if run frequently, should keep your computer pretty spyware free.
I use a combination of AdAware, Spybot and Microsoft AntiSpyware. They are all free downloads and as long as you update them at least once a week and run them a couple times a week depending on your internet usage, they keep you protected for the most part. MS AntiSpyware runs every day automatically on my machines and I usually run the other two every other day on each machine.
You also need good updated antivirus as well.
As someone said, the "always
If driving around doing errands, etc., on Saturday, I listen to this computer guy on the radio in Southern California. He recommends using Mozilla Firefox (I use it) instead of internet explorer.
You also HAVE TO, HAVE TO, HAVE TO, HAVE TO, HAVE TO have a firewall, preferrably a hardware one.
A hardware one will be in your wireless router. Even if you don’t use it as wireless, you should still have a router at home, instead of plugging right into your computer.
The new DSL issue I have now is opening up current files on my computer in the SBC AT&T “format” or “window” I click onto a picture to open up but it does not even show up when I click onot the file. It shows it as empty. That needs to be addressed immediately. Otherwise DSL as said before is the SHIZNIT!!!