LOL Glenda........now I understand why you sent me that recipe! LOLOLOLOL!! Bless your heart! I meant the kind of "cookies" that are in our computers, that allow certain sites to enter. Brenda......I'm discovering that no place usually has a cookie with a similar name as the site. That's the problem I'm having. I can get out of everything, and bring up each site I visit, one at a time, and then do a Webroot Spy Sweeper sweep and figure it out slowly that way, but thought I'd ask. Every site seems to have a weird named cookie.

Dawn, thank you so much. I also thank your son. We use Cox Cable - they are our provider for the internet, televisions, and telephones. Their security system is free to those who use them, and it is call Authentium, but I cannot find any discussion groups or forums that discuss them. Nortons and Webroot are expensive, and Webroot interferes with my running the computer. When we bought our new computer, we had Circuit City install everything for us, and they installed these programs too. The guy there said that I should never put anything free on the computer because nothing is ever free. He said that few people read the small print during the installation process, that they just keep clicking continue or ok. But in the small print, you agree to allow them to give or sell your name to others. That is why you get many programs coming to you that you don't want. Has you son ever mentioned that? I know many people who use the free programs, and nobody else seems to be aware that they sell information if you subscribe to the free stuff. Sammy

Owbist did not say they were not good he was explaining they are not antivirus programs they are antispyware programs, what you said you need is an antivirus program. yes the free ones are as good as the pay ones. yes you definitely need to remove THE ANTIVIRUS program from your pc before installing a new ANTIVRIUS program you can not have more than one. If you had Norton you will need to go get the removal tool on the list I provided and follow their directions to get it off your pc, Norton is one that deeply inserts itself and can be hard to remove. You do NOT have to uninstall or get rid of superantispyware or spybot search and destroy those are NOT antivirus programs they are antispyware programs.

Maybe read the whole article rather than just the mindset gossip of one employee who was probably chastised. You made it clear in the past you are a genuine Norton Fan. Update - 12 October Microsoft has issued the following statement in response to the publication of this article: "We are committed to protecting our customers, and our Microsoft antimalware solutions provide strong, comprehensive defence against malicious code and attacks. We believe in these products and are proud of the protection capabilities we provide to well over 150 million computers worldwide." Here is a link that might be useful: cnnMoney - McAfee ... in Canada This post was edited by mikie on Thu, Jan 9, 14 at 2:58