Re: Wife's Install

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My PC has 512mb of RAM and works reasonably well.

But then, I don't play games. Games - even quite small ones - by today's standards - can just eat up RAM like it's going out of fashion!

I seriously doubt that SP3 or any other internal error on your PC is causing this re-direction - but would investigate the website you are visiting thoroughly - as a massive amount of legitimate websites have their bogus imitators just waiting to pounce with malicious code...

As a precaution, after visiting or downloading anything from these re-directed websites, run a (full) scan with MalwareBytes anti-malware. If you think that ANYTHING is not as it was, you should run this software...

Download MalwareBytes - antimalware from :
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Jerry" <jhuffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ok4Wm.150495$Td3.149552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Recently I reinstalled Win XP Pro and installed SP3 and then all the critical updates plus WMP 11. Her antivirus is NOD32 business.

The HDD is 250 gb split into four partitions, with the OS on C drive and programs (very few) installed on D drive. She has 512 mb memory which her purpose is plenty. The machine is only used for reading email and playing on line games.

This install has been a pain since day one. First time I installed I only used SP2 and got all the updates. When I did that I could not get rid of the login screen no matter what I did. That is when I put back an Acronis image of the initial install and installed SP3 with all the critical update. At that point everything looked great.

Here is what I have run into now. She plays games on king.com and right now when she trys to log in there, as soon as she click into the "username" box she is redirected to another site. We have seen this happen at no other site, she can log into web email and several other sites that she visits. To say the least she is irate because I can not fix this.

I suspect it has something to do with SP3 but I can not be positive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you




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