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Posted by Stacy on Friday, August 22, 2008 8:10 PM

My husband is always looking for ways to keep our computer safe. It seems to be a bit of an obsession with him, and he is very careful about which sites he goes on and what information they are putting into our computer. Honestly, he gets upset anytime it seems to him that the computer is going slower, as he knows that means that he needs to run another Free Antivirus scan on it. He did purchase more information on antivirus related issues and they told him that buying some spyware software would help. Then I found out that you could get free spyware and virus removal online, and he was really mad. He can be very cheap, however, he really does want our computer to keep running quickly and he can't stand it when he can't access a page or it takes a really long time.

He works overnights and when he comes home if he thinks the computer is not running just the way it should be, he runs a scan. I wouldn't mind it so much if it didn't take a half hour to an hour to run one. He gets upset if I shut down the scan midstream. He says that he needs to get the viruses and spyware out everyday to not only keep the computer running well, but to also prevent us from having our personal information stolen.

Lately, even with the free scans the computer is still running slower than he would like, and it is saying that we are running out of memory. I think it is because of all the pictures that I have stored and never take to the store to get printed up. I tried one of those USB memory sticks, but it would only hold about 3 of my picture files. I am really hoping that once I get my pictures out of the memory that the computer starts running better, because otherwise he is going to pay to have our computer cleaned out and get some memory added to it. He priced this service locally and they want about $200.00 for the process, but I think that it will probably be worth it since our computer is a nice one with a Pentium processor and I really don't want him to go out for a new computer because I know he will buy something cheap. That is just his nature.