Avast is good indeed. So is AVG, but just like PC and Mac users have a trend to "despise each other" ... Avast users tend to talk down the AVG users and the AVG users will often do the same.

Truth is, both are good and both have their own weaknesses. The free versions of both are [u[anti-virus ...

If the Norton is a trial version, I suggest you try out AVG Free (free anti-virus considered by many to be equal or better than Norton). It's very good and it is one-third the memory footprint of Norton.

If he's been to a lot of *beep* sites lately ... you better run a few other scanners as well, because Malwarebytes doesn't get everything.

Spybot Search & Destroy
Adaware
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner

Get and run ALL of these. Let ALL of them do FULL scans. Yes, it will consume ...

Very interesting. Thanks!

Very tragic.

Some more info, but that's about all I've got. Seen a couple news headlines about it, not much else.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090119/ap_ ... ruck_death

This is what happened that one fateful night. Sad.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090117/ap_ ... ruck_death

Nice. Very, very nice.

Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, two days is a little more than Microsoft used to say was the average uptime for Windows 98 (this was said after they had released XP).

OOooo! The "Mystery Truck".

Nope, haven't seen it.

I agree

Sun spots

It's not the videos that does it. It's how Windows typically (well, newer Windows versions) change video modes in the midst of trying to automatically adjust to the video modes being asked for by the programs.

By having what video modes already specified to a certain extent greatly reduces what ...

Doesn't sound like that was much fun.

Out of curiosity, what brand/model of printer was that?

That's OK. So am I.

Or ... just find it on ebay...

http://cgi.ebay.com/MONSTER-TRUCK-MADNE ... dZViewItem

Just need a Gameboy Advance to go with it.

Happy Holidays!

What Christmas themed tracks and/or trucks do you know of?

Eh, I use both (fully updated, with minimal 3rd party extras) and I have no problem at all with forums.

I'm curious ... why would you want it on both?