I started using foxfire because of too many viruses on ie...?

But are there things you can do on IE that you can't do on foxfire? I can't find IE now that I started using foxfire, but I keep getting pop-ups from IE that seem to be virus related links (you know the ones) and a little box that says "IE is not you current provider (?), would you like to make it?"

I started using foxfire because of too many viruses on ie...?windows mobile

You can do pretty much everything on Firefox that you can do on Internet Explorer, and better.

Set Firefox as your default browser, and set your home page in the same fashion as you do with IE.

Go to the Tools/options area and block all pop-ups. Firefox is excellent for that. Also, set your 'save history' to zero days and delete ALL of your cookies on the same options election so that any popups you ARE getting don't come back tomorrow.

By the way, go to www.grisoft.com and download AVG Free edition for virus control. It is excellent and user friendly with automatic free updates and automatic scheduling that you can modify and set up as you wish.

I started using foxfire because of too many viruses on ie...?www.microsoft.com internet explorer

Hello there bigmamma,

Try these steps and you should be just about touchless.

Popups:

You might have been infected with some sort of tracking cookie that is causing you to get Popups.

Spy ware:

You might have clicked YES to something while on a web site, or entered your login info.

Scanning your system:

Go to these links in this order:

This first one, you need to RUN from that location.

This is a DIRECT link to that exe file.

If it finds a suspicious program, remove it IF you DONT know what it is.

http://www.xblock.com/download/xclean_mi...

This one is the same thing, but you go a different way to this program.

http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.p...

Also, I use a program called Spyware Blaster. This program ADDs "ActiveX Kill Bits" to the registry to

help keep some if not most of the popups and parasites from installing onto your computer.

You can surf just about anywhere and watch this program do it's job.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownlo...

Also, while you MIGHT have installed something that messed with your win sock, you need this to fix it:

This is a XP Win Sock Fix

Download and run this and it will want you to reboot. DO SO. REBOOT your computer or this will not work

like it is supposed

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4372.h...

The download this and INSTALL it and update it, then run this and remove what it finds.

This is a DIRECT link to the exe file.

http://downloads2.superantispyware.com/d...

The you need a good anti-virus.

If you have AVG, get rid of it and use something else. Although AVG is free (so are many others) it has

it's problems and sometimes (more times then normal) reports false positives.

If you use Norton (Symantec) You need to get rid of that also. It isn't nothing but a resource hog and causes

problems that takes for ever to try and troubleshoot. Also, Norton has a removal tool in order for anyone to

remove it from their system (I say this is bad practice for ANYONE - the removal should have been included).

Norton Removal Tool here :http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsg...

Anti-Virus

AVAST Anti Virus is FREE and you can also pay for it.

AVAST HERE http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-...