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[Zorba]

I have been having a problem lately with me internet browser and it's getting worse.
When I click and get a page up on screen i get a blank page with the message "done" at the bottom left on the status bar. Just a click on the refresh button would get the page on screen but now it takes many clicks on the refresh button if i am lucky. The same on any site I go to. Sometimes the page comes up first go but then,say,when I click on a thread, i get a blank page again. I am using Firefox but the same happens on Internet Explorer.
Can anybody help ?

[Get Real!]

You should always start by scanning for adware/malware.

[Zorba]

I have AVG running and even updated it earlier, but problem is getting worse. Even now if try to submit this post i will get a blank screen and click refresh at least ten times to get the forum page. Any other free spyware/adware programs i can try ?

[Zorba]

I have AVG running and even updated it earlier, but problem is getting worse. Even now if try to submit this post i will get a blank screen and click refresh at least ten times to get the forum page. Any other free spyware/adware programs i can try ?

[Get Real!]

I have AVG running and even updated it earlier, but problem is getting worse. Even now if try to submit this post i will get a blank screen and click refresh at least ten times to get the forum page. Any other free spyware/adware programs i can try ?

AVG is meant to be a virus scanner and a rubbish one at that. Viruses and adware/malware are two different things.

Use this for malware...

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

[annaka]

I'm no expert and the last two days I got involved with Explorer 7 and 8 for xp on my desktop, then tried to remove them and looked up some advice that suggested restore the system to an earlier date. Then it said if I had SP3 you can't remove either, so I removed that - eventually. After the system restore backdated three months it removed No. 8 and left me with No. 7. It comes up - eventually and I reverted back to using Mozilla Firefox. That gets the MSN up, but I probably did something else wrong and am now with my laptop which is Vista and I'm not mucking about any more.

Don't know if that helps, a bit long-winded though.

Annaka.

[Get Real!]

I'm no expert and the last two days I got involved with Explorer 7 and 8 for xp on my desktop, then tried to remove them and looked up some advice that suggested restore the system to an earlier date. Then it said if I had SP3 you can't remove either, so I removed that - eventually. After the system restore backdated three months it removed No. 8 and left me with No. 7. It comes up - eventually and I reverted back to using Mozilla Firefox. That gets the MSN up, but I probably did something else wrong and am now with my laptop which is Vista and I'm not mucking about any more.

Don't know if that helps, a bit long-winded though.

Annaka.

In other words you don’t know what the hell you’re doing and you wanted to share that with us…

[annaka]

Yeah I agree, but I did get rid of Explorer 8.

[CBBB]

I'm no expert and the last two days I got involved with Explorer 7 and 8 for xp on my desktop, then tried to remove them and looked up some advice that suggested restore the system to an earlier date. Then it said if I had SP3 you can't remove either, so I removed that - eventually. After the system restore backdated three months it removed No. 8 and left me with No. 7. It comes up - eventually and I reverted back to using Mozilla Firefox. That gets the MSN up, but I probably did something else wrong and am now with my laptop which is Vista and I'm not mucking about any more.

Don't know if that helps, a bit long-winded though.

Annaka.

In other words you don’t know what the hell you’re doing and you wanted to share that with us…

Another couple that are too stupid to own computers!

[annaka]

You haven't heard the best bit, I've only got the nerve to teach my Bulgarian cleaner and her husband, how to use a laptop. Blind leading the blind, neither of them speak a work of English and I don't know a word of Bulgarian so our common language is Greek. They are both doing well mainly thanks to Google Translate when they want medical information and cut and paste is now a doddle. They really love Skype and talk to their family every day for free.