my Yahoo Toolbar Antispyware fails, what do i do?

Question

when i clk run Yahoo Antispyware , it keeps running for hours without stopping, i had to turn off my PC everytime, losing all my data

Answer 1

Try These.

I have prepared this to aid you. Topics covered are: Anti virus, Anti spy ware, Browsers, e-mail, Word processors, Database, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings and Photo manipulations. All programmes described are free to use, some even for commercial use.

Antiviral.

AVG free. Excellent protection available from: http://www.Grisoft.com

Don't use two antiviral products together as they may be incompatible. If your Antiviral trial has run out, then remove product from your computer and get the AVG installed.

Anti-spyware

Essential products are: Adaware SE from: http://www.lavasoft.com

Spybot SD http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

Spywareblaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Windows Defender - from Microsoft downloads.

Office Applications

Open Office has an extremely good free to use and distribute product at http://www.openoffice.org

It contains programmes fully functional in Word-processing, Database, Spreadsheets, Drawing and Presentation. It looks and feels like Microsoft Office and can even make PDF's

Photo-manipulations

For ease of use and management of your photo files try Kodak easyshare software http://www.kodak.com

or Picasso. http://.picasa.google.com/

For advanced and fully functional photographic manipulation gimp2 is very similar to Photoshop and is available from http://gimp.org

Browsers and E-mail programmes.

Can recommend Firefox for browsing and has many safety features installed and is self updating and for a general e-mail programme, Thunderbird is very good. Go to:

http://www.mozilla.com/products/

Fun and helpful programmes

Have a look at Calendar Magic, http://www.stokepoges.plus.com/calendar.htm


it has lots of Scientific, Geometry, Factor and Expression calculators as well as Global distances, Sun and Moon Data, a Pregnancy Calculator, Time Data and Alarm clocks as well as an extremely comprehensive range of Calendars in about 27 different formats from Afghanistan to Vietnamese, including Chinese and Hindu.

C Cleaner.http://www.ccleaner.com/

This will tell you a lot about what is on your computer, such as running programmes,cookies, History, settings etc. and will help you clean up and remove unwanted items. Be careful how you use it as it is a very powerful programme and you should read the help index before you do anything with it.

Hope this information is of help to you and others.

Answer 2

First, learn to save your data more often.

Second, you AS got corrupted for some reason. It happens with the Yahoo Toolbar AS. It has never happened to me, but I seen a lot of post from other it has happened to. Go to the Pencil and click Uninstall the reinstall a new toolbar. If it doesn't Uninstall at the pencil, then try through Add/Remove programs. If it doesn't uninstall, then the Uninstaller in the toolbar is corrupt. You will need to download the toolbar over the one you have to get the uninstaller back. Then do the uninstall and download it again.

Before doing all this, make sure all your temp files and cookies are deleted. I prefer to use Disk Cleanup in System Tools. Then the Disk Defrag in System tools.

Yahoo Toolbar, Messenger have problems downloading and installing properly on cluttered up computers.

Answer 3

Download Spybot and Adaware from the net and forget the tool bar. Jules, Australia.

www.safer-networking.org/en
www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware

Answer 4

Try running it in Safe Mode.
If you have Windows XP, type MSCONFIG under Start...Run... and check the /SAFEBOOT box under the BOOT.INI tab and restart the PC.
Remember to change it back to Normal Start up or you'll keep booting in safe mode.

Answer 5

Get Windows Defender from
http:\\www.microsoft.com and restore your system before installing and that should keep you safe from those annoying and pesky ads poppin' up all over da place.

Answer 6

Ad-Aware SE is a good replacement... also try AVG Free edition for virus protection.

Answer 7

uninstall that crap, and get something real