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We had Norton; that didn’t work, on my computer only.

So then we had McAfee; that didn’t work, on my computer only. Somebody put a virus on there that made it appear that my computer was downloading updates and making regular scans but when I contacted McAfee’s support they told me I hadn’t updated anything or run any scans for a month. The only way I can get that straightened out is to go online and give them control over my computer altogether and considering some bad stuff I had happen with them before, I’m not prepared to do that. So I just need to wipe that hard drive clean and start over.

Now I’m on a different computer with AVG and B Secure, and that also didn’t work, only on my computer. I clean it regularly with AdAware and CCleaner. So now Ad Aware tells me that it’s blocking IE from connecting to a malicious site - right before IE goes to an ad site.

When I went to shut down before going to work a couple hours ago (whenever I last posted to you) my speakers surprised me. I had turned them way up to try to listen to a Youtube clip, which was when I received the message telling me I didn’t have a driver for audio equipment. I tried to adjust the audio properties and it told me I didn’t have any audio hooked up. I checked that it was plugged in, etc. So then when the computer was shutting down I was in the other room and this loud Windows shut-down melody nearly blew me away. Out of the blue the speaker was apparently fine again. I haven’t tried it yet since starting the computer back up so I don’t know what’s up.

But I started having troubles with Google, where it wouldn’t let me click on anything; then it went to ads if I tried clicking on anything. Then I was OK on Yahoo but now it sends me to ads if I click on anything. I can’t save anything in Word. Right before the Win32 Host Service screen pops up saying it has to close, my screen changes appearance; the tabs at the bottom are white instead of blue and some of my navigation bar at the top disappears; everything is a lower resolution.

Fairly frequently when I start the computer it goes only to the Welcome screen and then nothing. I can’t get to IE by clicking on the start-up menu; I have to click from the desktop. If I unplug the network connection when I’m working offline, half the time I’m OK if I plug it back in and half the time it won’t let me connect to the internet until I reboot.

It’s nuts. I’m going to have to wipe everything and start over with this one too. Wouldn’t be a big deal except I don’t know how to do it myself and my husband is sick of this crap and very busy.

A new computer is a financial impossibility at this point.