Take care of your computer security

Originally Posted by Average Joe

When I was on about 8 hours ago, I clicked on a thread and my computer started whirring uncontrollably for about 10 minutes. It didn't seem to affect the speed that the pages loaded, but I was wondering what was going on.

Control Alt Delete

Brings up your Task Manager lets you see what is running. There are many programs that run in the background... like auto updates.

Also ads on forums trigger all kinds of stuff

Zone Alarm firewall the basic is free... it is the ONLY firewall that forces programs dialing OUT to ask permission. It takes a few weeks to set up as all programs need to ask once, but once you allow the right ones access NOTHING will get out