Tech Help, Please

7/27/11

[pabianice]

I have a Jurrasic laptop running Windows ME. Symantec no longer supports ME. Can some Freeper suggest an anti-virus program that would run on ME?

Thanks.

[diamond6]

I hope you find help. And can I ask an additional question to yours in the hopes that someone can help?

My yahoo toolbar keeps disappearing and then reappearing. its driving me crazy.

[OL Hickory]

http://download.cnet.com/SpywareBlaster/3000-8022_4-10196637.html?tag=rb_content;main

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Avast still supports ME.

[mountainlion]

Go to download.com and get afree one. I used to have about 3 free ones and would run one each week.

[JerseyHighlander]

Truly and absolutely stumped on this one.

HEre is a good list of all the better AntiVirus programs on the market:

http://www.win2008r2workstation.com/win2008r2/security-software

My first answer is to find a very small linux distro made to work on older hardware.

[Lucky9teen]

Try

[Lucky9teen]

Try Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic

Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT

[Truth29]

"My yahoo toolbar keeps disappearing and then reappearing. its driving me crazy."

Go to tools, then toolbars, make sure that the Yahoo toolbar is checked.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Windows Me was a great idea that shouldn’t have happened.

Replace your computer. It’s time.

It really cannot be protected with any modern antivirus software.

ME hasn’t been supported for years, and virus’s have advanced tremendously in that time.

[molson209]

Yes,try avast , but if you’re not a gamer ,Install Ubuntu as your OS instead

[golux]

Is there any way you might be able to upgrade to upper Jurassic or, say, Cretaceous hardware?

[The KG9 Kid]

Install either Trend Micro USA's 'HijackThis' or avast! Antivirus.

Get a new laptop. Walmart or Costco. They're cheap. Thank me later.

[dynachrome]

In IE under “view” at the top there is a “toolbar” dropdown menu. Is “lock the toolbar” checked?

[TomGuy]

You might check Windows Essentials. It seems to have low overhead. I use it on my XP laptop.

[diamond6]

I’m embarrased to say this but I have no “File, View, Tools, bar.

[Dan(9698)]

Jurrasic laptop running Windows ME.

There are 27,000 laptops for sale on Ebay.

I bought one recently for $150.00 running XP. Don't bid high, if you lose a bid, there is another just like it coming 30 minutes later.

[st.eqed]

The best anti-virus is Linux.

I like mepis and meego, both are easy and you don’t have to install if you don’t want to.

[TomGuy]

Are you running IE in full screen mode? That makes the menu bar disappear.

Try pressing the F11 key or clicking on the ‘restore’ icon in the upper right corner to exit ‘full screen mode’.

[TexasRepublic]

Puppy Linux runs in as little as 256MB RAM and does not have to be installed either.