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

[jammold]

I have however been seriously molested by a much cleverer method, one which to this day I never managed to work out so I guess sometimes you just can't win if someone takes a real 'liking' to you

That really does scare me Tyger - its "digital stalking" in a way...

*shudder*

[TygerTyger]

Yeah well I won't go into details cos I don't wanna make internet-newbies nervous but it was pretty much a digital stalker, and it lasted over a couple of years. And they knew some personal stuff. Say no more. And yes, it makes you very.........very..........worried.

[kee-lo_]

Woah TT that sounds really bad.
Did you ever get the police on to the case or did it just stop one day?

[danstijl]

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

[TygerTyger]

*Shrug* realistically going to the police wouldn't have achieved a lot. They only really have a chance of doing anything if they are in the same country as you, and then it has to be a sufficiently severe case. What with all this phishing and stealing from banks and industrial espionage etc, major stuff, do the police really have time for one guy who gets freaked out? Not really. It's a mammoth task to keep up, I don't see how it's effectively possible.
Anyway I learned not to leave any sensitive emails online, was very careful what I said in chatrooms, kept records of everything etc etc and more importantly just acted like I didn't care anymore and just shut down whenever they turned up. I guess they just got bored and went away, although they could certainly just carry on if they wanted to.

[kee-lo_]

A good option is not giving your details to strangers....

[TygerTyger]

Hey I don't give my details to nobody. When somebody can walk into your webmail accounts like it's Tesco it's a little hard to stop them.

[Twisted-Rizla]

You're right about that TT. If a thief wants to pinch your car and is determined to do so, there's little any of us can do about it.

Although I'm as concerned as the next person about cyber trespassing at least I have some knowlede about what is going on and what to do about it. I feel more for people like my mum and dad who are complete novices when it comes to PCs and are unaware of the threats that face them. Ignorance is no longer bliss when it comes to net security.

[DAZZA]

this happened to me with msn messenger
somebody got my hotmail details, and lost me a couple of friends

firewalls and spybot are a must

[Twisted-Rizla]

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.