Rob_Impreza99

iTrader: (3)

For the last few weeks its been viurtually impossible for me to use internet explorer 6, websites can take a good few minutes to load up and all the graphics seem laggy and sometimes they don`t leven load up.

I have pages hanging, websites half loaded and sometimes crashing. I defrag on a regular basis and clear cookies etc, i have decent RAM and have checked all the common things that can slow up browsing etc.

I am on 2 meg broadband via NTL/Virgin, ive never had any problems in the past with IE6 but recently its become a bit of a joke, mozilla firefox is fine and i have no problems. Its just ineed IE6 sometimjes otherwise i would use firefox all the time..... Any ideas ?

Iain Young

Why are you still using IE6 and not IE7? I'd be running some spyware scans if I were you...

Rob_Impreza99

iTrader: (3)

Ive done that Ian, ive run both spybot S+D and AVG and both are upto date and everything comes back clear. I once used IE7 and didn`t like its layout so went back to IE6.

Iain Young

IE6 is full of security holes, and is not actively being supported any more (so any bug / security fixes are far and few between). Not a good idea to still be using it.

Don't rely on AVG either. That lets through tons of nasty stuff.

Rob_Impreza99

iTrader: (3)

Ive changed my browser to IE7 and ive also changed my anti virus to Nod32, touch wood it seems smoother so far. I didn`t need to change my anti virus but with you saying AVG wasn`t the best i did some google searching and Nod32 seemed to be rated very well.

Iain Young

Yep, I use Nod32 as well. Seems the best of the bunch (and I've tried them all)...