V. 7 Question

[Lexxicon]

Today, I finally broke down and installed version 7 of SD. Is there still a need to have Browser Defender? I thought I had read somewhere about that, but forgot what it said. That was a while ago, I'm old, and have slept since then. ;) Thanks in advance!

[haapy]

Browser Defender comes wrapped up in v7.

You only need the stand alone version if you use FireFox.

If you go to add/remove software, you will see it.

I recommend using it as it is one more layer of defense.

[Lexxicon]

Okay, so I reinstalled Browser Defender, but it is attaching to IE8, not Firefox. I only rarely use IE8 anymore, I mostly use Firefox. Any suggestions?

[haapy]

Yes. Go here to get the FF version.

http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54752
:)

[Lexxicon]

Thank you so very much! :)

[silvertones]

It works great by the way

[tigertheboo]

any sense of the speed with firefox.
I put it up a while back but then took it off. One of my major sites is a local newspaper that must take ads from everyone under the sun, and browser defender seemed to scan them all.

thanks

[haapy]

I had that issue with my local newspaper, owned by Freedom Communications who owns about 100 other papers.

Pop ups that wouldn't quit and other useless info.

I found out the ad producer was casalemedia.com and put casalemedia.com in my IE restricted site list and no more problems. FF must have setting for that too.

[tigertheboo]

thanks makes sense, but how do I figure out the sites?

An idea: us ccleaner than access the newspaper and then see what has been added to cclearner cookie thing?

does that makes sense?

[Lexxicon]

Firefox has an add-on called Adblock Plus that I use. It seems to do well. My only overall gripe about Firefox is that it goofs up some websites that IE8 doesn't. Still, I trust it more. So far. So good. *knocks wood*

[Lexxicon]

Another question I'm throwing out there is this:

When I had Browser Defender reinstalled [the one that attached to IE8], I kept getting error messages when SD was booting [exception errors regarding memory or something]. After it finished loading, the pop up warnings went away. Whenever I did an uninstall on BD, the error message pop ups have stopped.

Is this supposed to happen? I had begun to wonder if I would have to uninstall SD and reinstall it or go back to the older version.

[haapy]

I would recommend uninstalling SD and Browser Defender (IE) and starting clean with a fresh install of v7.