Debate, and discuss, just dont Bore me.

Twice in the last week I have been called in to fix a computer that would not "browse" the Internet.  The browser of choice was internet Explorer (one was 6 the other 7), and while the home page would launch when the browser would start, they could not then type in another URL and have the browser connect.

But it was not 100%.  In other words, type in a second URL, and it would not connect.  Type in a 3rd and it woudl.  4th, would not, 5th would, etc.

I checked for all kinds of bugs (using Symantec for standard bugs and Malwarebytes for the sneaky ones) and none were found.  So I started killing processes and ripping out Add ons in IE.  And it started working great!  Every URL would pop up.  So I started putting the URLs back in one at a time, and stumbled when it came to Google Toolbar.

Fortunately neither user was enamored with the Google Toolbar (they just wanted to make sure they could get to Google).

I personally do not like those tool bars and never install them on my PC.  And it is the first things I take off when my wife starts complaining about "slowing computer" on hers as well.  But I guess some people like it as it does seem popular (I know you can get it from installing just about any freeware these days if you do not uncheck the box during installation).  And in days past, I have seen some that have 3 or 4 of those irritating things (Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN).

I was just wondering if anyone else had seen this on computers they have worked on.  There is no error associated with the problem. The page just never loads.


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on Jun 17, 2010

Bebi Bulma
All toolbars are evil....regardless of where they come from.

With the exception of the WinCustomize Toolbar!!!  

 

https://www.wincustomize.communitytoolbars.com/

on Jun 17, 2010

WebGizmos
Had to fix a friends mothers pc once. They said it was "slow" which was an understatement. When I got there it took about 15 minutes before it fully loaded..well...as loaded as it was going to get...and then the mouse literally looked as though it was having an epileptic fit. Needless to say she had every toolbar known to man installed and even after running Spybot which found over 700 pieces of spy/adware it went through withdrawal symptoms and I told her she was better off just reformatting the pc.

I worked on my Cousin's daughters compuier that was like that.  It had over 2000 malware guys (plus 4 legitimate Trojan horses).  I thought that was soooo bad until I read some responses on a list I belong to (Resnet - Colege resedential Networks) that had some on the list claiming to have seen computers with over 4500!!!!

yea, that will trash a computer real fast!  (or slow as the case is).

on Jun 17, 2010

RedneckDude

Quoting Bebi Bulma, reply 2All toolbars are evil....regardless of where they come from.

With the exception of the WinCustomize Toolbar!!!  

 

https://www.wincustomize.communitytoolbars.com/

Of Course.

on Jun 17, 2010

Dr Guy

Quoting Bebi Bulma, reply 10You mean like this?




Yep.  I hope that one is not yours.  Reading the web one line at a time gets tedious.

Ha, oh god no. Found that on lifehacker.

RedneckDude

Quoting Bebi Bulma, reply 2All toolbars are evil....regardless of where they come from.

With the exception of the WinCustomize Toolbar!!!  

 

https://www.wincustomize.communitytoolbars.com/

Nope...wouldn't even run that one.

on Jun 17, 2010

With the exception of the WinCustomize Toolbar!!!

 

I wouldn't use it either, I use no toolbars, No addons and no accelerators. Oh i forgot i don't use IE. Opera all the way for me. Once you use speed dial anything else just seems...well.....lame.

on Jun 18, 2010

Oh i forgot i don't use IE. Opera all the way for me.

I have not tried Opera yet.  My main browser is Firefox.  But I also have Chrome and Safari.  I am not crazy about Chrome, but that seems more an interface issue than performance.

on Jun 18, 2010

I like Opera but I always go back to Firefox just for some of the add-ons.

Toolbars... NEVER, too much hassle for a little gain.

Speed Dial for Firefox

 

on Jun 18, 2010

Cap'n starkers  is strangely absent from this here Google whuppin'.

on Jun 18, 2010

Nimbin
With the exception of the WinCustomize Toolbar!!!

 

I wouldn't use it either, I use no toolbars, No addons and no accelerators. Oh i forgot i don't use IE. Opera all the way for me. Once you use speed dial anything else just seems...well.....lame.
try the new 10.60(use it right now ) does that fly  and no tool bars for me either

on Jun 18, 2010

Wizard1956
Cap'n starkers  is strangely absent from this here Google whuppin'.

He is a google critic?

I have found one thing that Bing beats google all to hell in.  Phone number look ups!  Google gives you a bunch of pay for sites to find out the name.  Bing (this is land line numbers) gives you the name.  Came in handy when I had to call my vampire and had lost his number (but had a bunch in my cell that I did not know who they were - I Binged them and up came his name on the 3rd number I tried!).

on Jun 18, 2010

Cap'n starkers is strangely absent from this here Google whuppin'.

Aye, I bin quietly watchin ' frum tha poop deck ta see who else be g'wen t' fire a broadside at them thar Google fellers.

T' be honest, I be sumwhat disserpointed in ye all... not so much as a shot frum a blunderbuss, much less cannon fire.

Give to 'em I says... wiv cutlass in 'and an' all cannons a blazin'

As fer what gives wiv that thar google toolbar, it gives up yer locashun an phones 'ome wiv details o' whar ye've bin an' whar ye be g'wen.  Aye, it be an evil piece o' technolergy, that thar toolbar.  Avoid it like scurvy, I says.

 

on Jun 19, 2010

I'll just whisper this and see if anyone jumps in fright... "GoogleToolbarUpdater"... AKA the Shit that just won't flush.

Google Chrome works nicely now though.. since it now actually updates when a webpage updates. Before, it didn't show - in particular - new web comic pages. However, that's fixed, and I must admit I like the ability to do 'intelligent' searches in the address bar.

 

 

on Jun 19, 2010

I'll just whisper this and see if anyone jumps in fright... "GoogleToolbarUpdater".

Yeah, it makes me cringe in fear.. updates personal details and internet travels when it phones home.

Such an item is prohibited and can never exist on any PC in my household.  Persons who disobey my direct order (to never ever install Google toolbar) are taken out back, placed in the pillory and have exceedingly rotten fruit pelted at them.

on Jun 19, 2010

I remember when we were being offered a dollar for every computer we could install the Google Toolbar on. I understand malware writers stopped trying to install "normal" malware and started installing Goole Toolbar instead - it just paid more.

on Jun 19, 2010

taken out back, placed in the pillory and have exceedingly rotten fruit pelted at them.

Sounds like the vegetarian death sentence...

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