suddenly slow

[vaioaddict]

I purchased my vaio last month, was working fine. Last two days, the Microsoft word is not responding. ( I have installed Microsoft Office 2003 package). When I try to make a Power Point slide, and type in a letter, its appearing after 10 sec, the hourglass sign remains for an awful long time . The letters do not appear clear for a long time.
Even my old computer with half the speed and memory never did like that!
I do not know if this is a coincidence, happened after I made Vaio back up discs. Please help! Thanks very much

[Psaila]

ok..... that makes me nervous indeed. Want to buy spy sweeper from webroot, good option????

The jury is still out on whether to buy or just use the free resources that are available from companies such as Spybot and Ad-Aware. I've asked the same question myself but opinion seems to favour the free versions. I think if you've got the two mentioned you should be OK.

Better to try the Free spybot , even though I use NIS spybot found 138 item norton did dont find . 138 less problems fixed and at no cost , But I have read that spybot hador has it own problems at times ,

As you put It TR " Ignorance is no longer bliss when it comes to net security."

[TygerTyger]

I swear by Spybot and Ad-aware, Norton ain't great. I had all the protection going and it didn't make the slightest bit of difference, but for those getting worried you can relax, stuff like Spybot and Firewalls stop 99.9% of things like that. There are enough people with poor protection to keep hackers or whatever going for years.

[kee-lo_]

They are both excellent products thats for sure Tyger...

[Twisted-Rizla]

You might find this Link interesting. Gives some useful advice on the types of Spyware kit available.

[kee-lo_]

Yeah it's a good site.