NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

edwink

I use Bullg*ard to protect my computer!! I found the price really reasonable. You can buy it through them on-line and download it with really easy instructions. I just renewed with them for £48 for 3 years membership. Which I found a really good price!!

What I like about it is the fact that it shows green ticks next to safe sites and red warning stops circles for suspect and unsafe sites. Also if you click on links in e-mails and posts like on this thread it will pop up and warn you to STOP and not go on to the site if the link is suspicious!! I have found this a very useful tool!!

I have always understood that N*rton is a bit heavy for general home use and therefore has the capacity to slow your computer down. Apparently it can take up a fair bit of memory too!!

Personally I would not install any free antivirus programmes on my computer. I suppose it is just me being wary of being asked to pay x amount once I have installed it before I can actually make use of it. I know that others have found them money saving certainly but a computer programmer actually said to me once that he would not touch free antivirus software on the internet with a barge pool. When I asked why he said that when it comes to fully protecting your computer and more importantly your passwords and banking details etc. it is worth paying the money for antivirus software from a well known trusted brand.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend whatever you are doing!!

Hubbie has the lurgy so off to cook supper for us both!!! Homemade pie already made, carrots, peas, sweet corn and mash potatoes. Left over mash going to be used for potato cakes for a another meal later in the week!!! Yum!! Yum!!

Edwink x

mel48rose

I also recommend AVG. Never had a problem.

purpleshoes_2

edwink wrote: »

I use Bullg*ard to protect my computer!! I found the price really reasonable. You can buy it through them on-line and download it with really easy instructions. I just renewed with them for £48 for 3 years membership. Which I found a really good price!!

What I like about it is the fact that it shows green ticks next to safe sites and red warning stops circles for suspect and unsafe sites. Also if you click on links in e-mails and posts like on this thread it will pop up and warn you to STOP and not go on to the site if the link is suspicious!! I have found this a very useful tool!!

I have always understood that N*rton is a bit heavy for general home use and therefore has the capacity to slow your computer down. Apparently it can take up a fair bit of memory too!!

Personally I would not install any free antivirus programmes on my computer. I suppose it is just me being wary of being asked to pay x amount once I have installed it before I can actually make use of it. I know that others have found them money saving certainly but a computer programmer actually said to me once that he would not touch free antivirus software on the internet with a barge pool. When I asked why he said that when it comes to fully protecting your computer and more importantly your passwords and banking details etc. it is worth paying the money for antivirus software from a well known trusted brand.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend whatever you are doing!!

Hubbie has the lurgy so off to cook supper for us both!!! Homemade pie already made, carrots, peas, sweet corn and mash potatoes. Left over mash going to be used for potato cakes for a another meal later in the week!!! Yum!! Yum!!

Edwink x

I had major problems with that, almost wrecked my pc due to a trojan that it didn't detect.

purpleshoes_2

Ive been using either AVG or avast for 10 years or so now, never had an issue. AVG, plus super anti spyware and CC cleaner is all I use and its worked fine for me.

purpleshoes_2

Just plodding on here with ebay sales and not buying from supermarkets, apart from cat litter/tuna/water/odd purchase at the local shop Ive spent the 3.76 I spent last tuesday and I'll be back for the reductions on tuesday night.

Having some issues with neighbours, one family who harassed me on and off for 10 years are now gone, but another have picked up where they left off.

Ive been targeted because I feed the pigeons, Im not the only person who does it and I do it nowhere near the woman who is complaining, I usually do it on a patch of waste ground, we are actually encouraged to feed the birds, the sheltered block of flats in my area has loads of stuff for the birds.

Anyway after a screaming match yesterday (her, not me), this woman who I don't even know and had never spoken to in my life before passed me in the street today and threatened to strangle me. I didnt shout back at her yesterday, just looked at her and went into my flat, but I got accused of drawing her a look and she threatened to put her hands around my throat, few more expletives thrown in the mix but that was the jist of it.

Cue phone call to the task force and an email to the police, I have a contact who was helpful before. Im not a formal complaint type of person as its got me nowhere over the years, but Im taking this all the way. My MSP (scottish mp) had to intervene last year when things got really out of hand. The problem is I live alone and I have no witness and people have got away with far too much over the years.

I was also supposed to testify in court against someone local (very local), I didnt see anything, just witnessed a disturbance and called police but things transpired after that but in the end I didnt have to. I got the citation just before christmas so that was 4 weeks of stress.

And there are other things going on as well that I cant talk about just now.

But Im not the victim some of my neighbours think I am, Im just not a shouter and Im not anti social. Just got rid of one set of bampots (google it) and I make no apologies for saying that, the neighbours who moved (they had to, were forced out of the area) were the bane of my life, her and her kids, not just me, other people too.

Its a shame, theres some really good work going on in the area of town I live in, lots of initiatives, I teach my fitness classes around here too. But it only takes a few people to make your life a misery, and the folk who have done it historically, are little younger than me (Im 45), not kids.

The girl I spoke to from the task force was actually shocked when I told her what had been said to me, never had that kind of reaction before, usually its just suck it up and get on with it.

One thing I am very good at, is ignoring people who want a rise out of me, Ive had lots of practice over the years.

Keep plodding on, that's all I can do and keep frugalling. 16 weeks till I go to spain for a week and counting.

katsu

Norton is free for people who bank at Barclays. I really recommend it.

candygirl

PURPLESHOES there is no justification for your neighbours aggression, re the pigeon feeding.Are they worried about the muck ngerms that might be spread , or what?:(

natnat13

Evening all
I have had such a busy week, just caught up on the thread.
I am not spending to save for a house, big dream! Because I'm self employed I need to wait to have 2 years accounts so hopefully I can have healthy savings.
Re washing, I use soap nuts, I only do a couple of loads a week. Having said that I took my DS's and my nephew to the beach today. I met with a friend who suggested going to a caf!. I explained that I was trying to save money so we took a picnic. The children got soaked and sandy and had great fun and it was totally free apart from fuel.
This coming week, I am extremely busy with work as well, so hopefully very little will be spent.

purpleshoes_2

candygirl wrote: »

PURPLESHOES there is no justification for your neighbours aggression, re the pigeon feeding.Are they worried about the muck ngerms that might be spread , or what?:(

She doesn't live anywhere near me. Shes 3 up in a block of flats. Im 4 up in another. The seeds I put out are nowhere near her home. Lots of people around here feed the birds, the people in the sheltered housing complex (a huge tower block) put out for the birds all the time. One man feed the birds daily and has done so for years. As I said before I generally feed the birds on a patch of waste ground with no houses around but it was freezing cold last week and some pigeons were around so I put some seeds out on the grass.

Some of my neighbours who live in my block of flats put bread out every day. Theres large patches of grass outside all the flats. I dont usually feed them there, I usually do it on a large patch of waste ground well away from any flat, but last week I put seeds directly outside (partly because it was minus 7 one morning and I couldnt be bothered freezing my bahookie off to go to where I usually put the seeds).

If shes worrying about the birds being on the roof of her flats, they would be there anyway. Its a sun spot and as soon as theres a hint of sun, the birds go from rooftop to rooftop trying to get a bit of sun.

My issue is, Im doing nothing other people don't do. Im not going to be bullied into not feeding birds as Ive done it on an almost daily basis since the very harsh winter of 2010. And Im certainly not going to go about my daily business being threatened with strangulation. It just wears you down after a while.

By the way I live in one of the roughest areas of my home town, she's certainly not complaining that percy pigeon is going to do a splat on her merc. She just wants someone to harass and unfortunately, I seem to be it.

candygirl

Fair enough then hun:D my next door neighbour had 90ft leylandiis that were full of wood pigeons,n the poop in my garden,especially all over the Grandkids toys, was horrendous so glad he's chopped them down now