For me, containers left on the patio deck generally do not attract slugs/snails. But the containers that are on soil or raised above soil by stands are easily reached by these predators. One idea that I heard of was to put vaseline around the pot for at least 1". The slugs and snails will not pass through this sticky substance. I have used this method and it does work. You just have to apply the vaseline where you will not touch it. It will need reapplying once in a while. And don't forget to consider that the slugs and snails that are on your hosta may already be living in your pot! I remember purchasing a hosta and I kept finding slugs on it. Finally, I removed the hosta from the pot and voila! there they were! Here are other methods to deter snails and slugs for containers. I copied and pasted from the link provided. Here it goes: Gritty substances. The first method for garden snail and slug control is to use a gritty substance. Snails do not travel over gritty substances, such as crushed eggshells or sharp sand, that have been spread around your container plants. Put a layer of grit in your plant containers, and snails will avoid these plants. If they do crawl there, the grit will clog their slime glands and it will kill them. Spread sharp and angular gravel (not smooth rocks) over soil so the snails canâÂÂt climb. All of these gritty substances will irritate the snail and slugâÂÂs delicate undersides. WD-40. To deter snails in your container garden, you can set up barriers around your plants or their containers. For example, you can spray a band of waterproof WD-40 around your containers, and the snails and slugs will be unable to climb up it. WD-40 is waterproof, so it will be effective in the garden even after rain or watering. When spraying the WD-40 around the containers, make sure there are no gaps, as the snails and slugs will climb through any spots youâÂÂve missed. Also protect any plants from the spray by covering them with newspaper or a sheet of plastic. The WD-40 should last an entire season. Copper wire. Another snail barrier is copper wire. Attach copper wire around your plant containers or around a thick plant stem. Because snails have acidic slime, they will get a shock if they touch copper wire. It wonâÂÂt kill them, but it will keep them from climbing up your plant containers or onto your plants, and they will go elsewhere. Hope this helps. Babka, your plants are looking fantastic! Jeffoxtoby, you have provided some good information. In regards to your reference to frogs, I have been told that it is toads that eat a large amount of slugs. Perhaps you can look into that. Here is a link that might be useful: Balcony Container Gardening: 8 Methods for Garden Snail and Slug Control

I don't see any Malware / virus. But we are only looking at a hijackthis log from Safe Mode, and Malwarebytes only ran for 14 Mins? I see an out of date computer. adobe 7! Java 1.5! IE6! Then McAfee is that up to date? For starters I would go into your add/remove programs list and remove Adobe. We can get you another reader later. Then remove all versions of Java from the add / remove programs. The only version there should be Version 6 u_18. Remove all others. Then install IE7, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9AE91EBE-3385-447C-8A30-081805B2F90B&displaylang=en You said yourself your getting Internet Explorer is not responding errors Then I would download Avast 5.0, to the desktop, don't install it yet. http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download Now I would run the McAfee removal tool, http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS100507 When that finishes double click the Avast that you downloaded before and install it AND SCAN WITH IT TOO. After we can remove some 04 entries in hijackthis log. Unnecessary Start ups. Up date Java , Get a reader program for pdf files. Run some cleaners, ccleaner ect. Good luck you have a lot to do. Don't surf The Internet in Safe Mode no Virus protection in that mode....Just go to links provided and get Avast installed after McAfee is removed.

also they will give that warning when there is a known problem with the latest version of a program that has not yet been updated or patched, that may well be the case here. They know there is an issue with the latest version but there is not yet a new patched one out yet so they still let you know that what you have currently can be a security risk. In those cases some people would choose to uninstall and wait others will just stay with what they have till the patched version is released.

That little ole camera of yours does good work!