re: What can I do to speed up my internet?
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:10 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by skiextreme2
(2 messages posted)
Most of the problems I have are with facebook apps.
I'm running AVG Internet Security Suite and nothing else. They finally got back to
me and asked me to do a few things, but I think it's the program itself. When I disabled
the link scanner, I got up to 10+ Mbps.
I don't know if the link scanner is all that useful as I haven't talked with anyone
that know anything about it, but if it's part of the security suite, I'd like to
be able to use it.
I can't wait to finish building my new computer and use XP pro (for however long
that lasts). At least I'll be able to pick faster AV services.
Thanks for the help and I hope you (or someone else) can help me more :-)
I'll check out Ghostery and see what that's all about. If it helps, I will post again.
On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:24 pm, dhm wrote:
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>What's your antivirus? Antispyware? Are they working too hard?
>
>Do you have overlapping security?
>
>Or has your security failed and your computer has become a zombie (bot).
>
>Tho I don't think it's your problem I've found some really slow sites. The pages
>had fully loaded (or almost so) and data was flowing, but it took a long time to
>stop. One site produced a status bar message "Waiting for Digg.com". I don't care
>about Digg and never will. (Well, if someone wanted to pay me, then I'd jump on
>the bandwagon.) I used Adblock Plus, not to block an ad agency but so Digg would
>not waste my time again.
>
>I added Ghostery for no particular reason. It selectively blocks software that
calls
>back somewhere to gather marketing info. Most of these people have Privacy Policies
>that they only use them for mass statistics. Then one of my favorite sites added
>a new message warning me that, duh, something was going too slowly. This happened
>on every page. Then I tried using Ghostery to block any companies' traces.
> Things speeded up. In effect these programs -- all legitimate commercial products
>-- are bots slowing your computer as hackers' trojans do.
>
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