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Does Avast Antivirus have a firewall and if so, should I turn off the Windows firewall?

I realize now what the problem is: the adaptor that transforms my keyboard’s USB into an adaptor that plugs into the keyboard plug. When I remove this adaptor and plug the USB directly into the tower, it works fine.

JMT

I have an important update!

The slide with the video in question plays fine on my work computer and on my wife’s computer. Therefore, the problem must be with my personal computer. I tried checking all of MS PPT’s settings on my personal computer in Tools | Options, but they are all the same as those on my wife’s computer. Does anyone know why the video gets cut off prematurely when played on my personal computer?

Regards,

JMT

Thanks Robin. Looks like a great product.

Hi JMT :

I have been happily using the FREE Avast Antivirus Home Edition for
several years; one of its major advantages over MSE is that Avast’s
Online Support Forums are excellent, with an Expert, Certified,
Volunteer “Malware Removal Specialist” helping people with very
serious malware Issues. You can read about the program at
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download .

Robin: does Avast come with anti-virus as well as anti-spyware, anti-worm, and anti-Trojan Horse?

Is anyone aware of any free anti-malware that has all of the following features:
– Anti-virus (as well as worm & anti-Trojan Horse); and
– Anti-spyware
Does AVG, Avast, or MSE cover all of these?

I figure, with my Windows Firewall running, a program that covers those basics should give me thorough protection.

Also, JScher: How did you find that old post? It didn’t show up for me in Advanced search when I typed “JMT356” and “Norton.” I only got these hits: http://lounge.windowssecrets.com/index.php?app=core&module=search&section=search&do=quick_search&search_app=core&fromsearch=1.

JScher,

That’s the post I was looking for. I’m surprised it didn’t show up when I typed “jmt356 norton” into the search box. I’ll try Advanced next time.

I am surprised at how much and how fast the annual subscriptions to Norton Antivirus are going up every year. This year, it is up to $49.99 for Norton Internet Security. Back in 2008, it was $42.79 for renewal; in 2007, it was $39.99 for one year. This si getting ridiculously expensive. Norton Anti-Virus is making way too much money by charging each user so much money every year. What’s it going to be next year? $60 renewal?

Do you or anyone happen to know how many licenses come with that renewal? I.e. can I install Norton on the 3 computers in my household?

On another note, I seem to recall that when Norton was not renewed years back, I was able to still access the program, it would run its weekly scans, etc. The only thing I was no longer getting was the virus definition updates. Now all of that seems to have changed. Norton appears to be completely 100% deactivated. Which is quite disheartening since I paid so much to purchase it years ago and didn’t realize that the entire program would be deactivated like this. Is this normal?

Final question: does anyone have any experience with password storage and auto login software and if so, would they recommend Roboform (http://www.roboform.com/download.html) or Free Password Manager Plus (http://free-password-manager-plus.software.informer.com/) and are these programs safe?

A few years back, I posted on “Woody’s Lounge” about Norton Antivirus and got a handful of replies telling me that it was a resource hog and I could get a good product such as AVG for cheaper or free. However upon searching the lounge for “Norton jmt356” I didn’t find this post. Is it because it is too old and has been archived or deleted because it was in the predecessor to this Lounge? Can anyone else find it?

By the way, part of the reason I am looking at other anti-malware products is because Norton, despite the fact that I spent $50 last year to update my definitions, let the Malware Doctor (a rogue anti-spyware program that automatically installs itself on victim computers) through to my computer. It was nearly impossible to remove.

As a side note, if anyone knows who the programmers behind Malware Doctor are, please let me know.

I don’t think it’s the charger. I have tried three different chargers and the battery is not showing up as charging. I will have to order a new battery to see if the issue is the battery. By the way, the battery has had this issue in the past. But usually for only a couple of minutes or hours. This is the first day I have gone three days with it showing itself as not charging.

I purchased this laptop, which came with the battery, less than two years ago in August of 2008. Another issue I have experienced is that my power icon has often displayed the message “plug in, not charging.” That makes little sense to me, as the laptop should be either plugged in or not charging; I can’t see how it can be plugged in and not charging. Also a sign for a new battery?

AKW: that’s what I want. How did you merge A1-D1?

Thanks. I found that going into the Properties / Details tab of each of the song files on my computer and changing the title of the songs makes them stick on the MP3 player as well.

Left alt + enter closes the worksheet; right alt + enter does nothing.

I have a cell that I want to split a cell into two rows: the top row will say “Paid for by:” and the second row will be split into 4 columns, each of which contains the name of a person. I don’t want any of the other cells in that row to be split, but I want all of the cells in that column also split into four, so that I could put a check under the name of the person who paid for a specific item.
Can this be done?

Thank you. Is there also a way to count only the D cells when any of the cells in the F column contains any number?

Also, is it possible to split the E1 cell into two rows without splitting any of the other cells in the E column or 1 row?

I DEFINITELY think my sister is the problem. I have not been opening any of her messages or drafting replies to them saved in Drafts, and there have been no phantom emails as a result. My theory is that when I open one of her emails, even though Outlook is programmed not to ask me whehter I want to send a read receipt, it is sending them anyway. These read receipts that are trying to go out show up as phantom messages in my Outbox, even though when I go to my Outbox, it looks empty. When two or three of these phantoms gets stuck in my Outbox, Outlook starts to crash.

I am going to steer clear of her deadly emails from now on whenever I’m offline.