Their are plenty of other browsers I can use besides IE.
so what.... who cares what browser you use
why do we need to know what problems you have?
if you want help, follow the advice/suggestions given.....if not, keep it to yourselfe
It's not help, it's attention that appears to be sought here.
yea...i think you are right..... she need to get a Facebook account
I have a Facebook account.
What's odd is that, on the one hand, submitting logs for diagnostics will mean, for her. some user privacy is lost, but, on the other hand, running so many add-ons on Firefox will mean that her user's privacy is already out the open barn door. Not submitting these logs will mean that the second and more important issue cannot/will not be addressed, and that she seems not to understand the difference between the two, and why submitting the logs for analysis is so important.
Facebook, for example, is nothing but a data-mining operation run for profit for those who run it, and this is important, it is thus is under their control. And, once something is posted on Facebook, it is potentially released, so to speak, out into the wild for anyone savvy enough to get around the so-called privacy safeguards that Facebook
chooses to put in place. That potential for lost privacy is always there just because of the way Facebook is set up and run.
I've read the entire thread, and have to agree with others here. If it is privacy you want, then don't run add-ons that can compromise that. If you've got a repeated pop-up from avast!, especially when you do not have a browser open, then you've got an infected system, and only submitting the logs will get you back to where you should be.
It's either that, or restoring your system back to factory specifications, if you ever want your system to be clean again. Submitting the requested logs is the lesser of the two evils as going back to original factory settings will mean that you will have to download all 100's of Microsoft security updates, reinstall all your programs, etc.,... I've known some home users that have had to take up to three consecutive days to get things back to the way they were before an infection occurred. Sure, restoring your system as it was when brand new will get rid of the original infection, but it will also cost you time. Please see the caution I've posted below.
Don't ever treat an alert from avast! as annoying. It is not. It's why you have it installed and running in the first place.
At least avast! is doing the job it is supposed to do, alerting you of an issue and infection you may have caused through installing a rogue and malicious add-on. That add-on would not be there unless you put it there; the likelihood of that being true in this case is high.
I've cautioned you several times not to install and run something on your system just because you can; that will most certainly lead you to an infected system in the future. It is said that the user is the most important defense mechanism against all malware, known and unknown. The system controlled by an user who does not truly know what they are doing only weakens that defense, and no a/v program present in the world can protect such a user against all malware when this is true.
You are asking for disaster and eventually an inoperable and an unusable computer if you continue doing what you have been doing. Please stop doing that. Instead, be strong and be smart. As polonus always says, be safe(r).
