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DADDY BOB'S COMPUTER Q & A
June 11, 2006
Q.
Lately I have become disillusioned with
McAfee and Norton's antivirus programs. They
have gotten so big and intrusive that they
are a real pain in the butt to use. Can you
recommend a good, easy to use program that
will give my computer adequate protection
without taking it over?
A.
Not too long ago I would have recommended
AOL and its Security Center, but no longer.
I have had too many experiences, all of them
bad, with AOL's Security Center programs on
my own computers and those I work on for
others. It is not too difficult to
understand why AOL is loosing customers in
droves. They lost me and members of my
family last month.
Now in my
opinion, as for McAfee and Norton's it looks
to me like they are trying to do to much and
they have become more of a burden to the
computer than a help. I have purchased
Norton's 2006, and McAfee 2006, but am not
using either one. They seem to double the
computer's boot up time, and take up a lot
of resources. Lately, their protection has
come under fire as there have been some
serious security issues with them. They are
either blocking legit programs, or allowing
the very things they are supposed to be
protecting you from.
About a
year ago I started beta testing a new
program from Microsoft called OneCare Live.
It has just recently been released for sale
to everyone. It is a full featured security
suite, that offers all the security and
other functions that most people will ever
need. It gets along with everything else on
the computer, is not intrusive, and does its
job well. It costs $50 a year for three
computers, and is all that I have been using
for over 6 months. I highly recommend it,
especially if you have a broadband
connection.
You can
read all about OneCare and download it at
www.onecare.com
Q.
I hit something or clicked something and now
website look magnified. What did I do, and
how do I get it back to normal?
A.
With
Internet Explorer open, hold down the CTRL
key and rotate the mouse wheel. That will
change the magnification of the display.
Depending on the version of Internet
Explorer, this may be a very touchy
adjustment.
In the
new Version 7 (beta 2) of Internet Explorer,
there is an adjustment in the bottom right
of the screen that allows this setting to be
changed more easily. It also allows it to be
changed to a wide range from as low as 10%,
and as high as 1000%, although I can see
absolutely no reason for viewing anything at
those extremes.
Q.
When I log in on my website to edit,
(add, change, delete) can others log on
to the website while I am editing it?
Or is it blocking others from the site
until I finish editing and log off?
A.
Yes, normal users can still access your
website even though you are editing
files on it. Your editing files does NOT
lock your site out from normal usage.
The page you are working on doesn't get
uploaded until you save it, and the page
it replaces on the server is not removed
until the new page has been completely
uploaded. Even if a user is viewing a
page when you upload its replacement, he
will continue to see the old page until
he refreshes his browser. He will never
be locked out from the page.
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