joto

If this is in the wrong section, I apologise.

I updated my antivirus and security software yesterday because my computer was running slower and slower, and I suspected a virus or other nasty. The update seems to have fixed most things, but when I log on to the Daily Mail website (I know, I know) things go really slowly again. I suspect it's the DM website that has the problem. When I click on an article I want to read, it takes ages for it to come up. Before that happens there seems to be a lot of "computer gunk" running along the bottom strip. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem with that particular website. I am not computer savvy at all, so don't go into long explanations that are all computer geek speak. Thanks.

Kar98

Oh. Different DM. I was thinking about them:

sir_eccles

...and nothing of value was lost

Leslie

This is interesting.

A couple weeks ago this happened to me:

My home computer was running fine, I clicked on a DM link somebody posted here and within that link I clicked on something else (probably a celebrity teaser on the side but I honestly don't remember) and my computer was instantly attacked. I was kicked off the internet, I could not get back on, and anytime I clicked on explorer pop-ups would invade my screen. They were pop-ups that said they were from Microsoft (looked just like a Microsoft screen w/ logo etc) claiming to be the Microsoft anti-virus software, telling me that my computer was infected but my edition of the anti-virus software had expired and I needed to upgrade to the 2011 edition. An order screen (again with the Microsoft logo) with fields (name address credit card etc) popped up and I guess I was supposed to fill that in.

Anyway, I did a system restore and everything was fine. I called Microsoft and they said they had been getting calls about this malware/virus/whatever you call it, and it was definitely not from them.

The most interesting part was that it came from the Daily Mail website which I have previously visited and clicked around on many times.

Sheepdip

me too - shame..................

Leslie

Oh, and to answer your original question, that site is always slow. If I browse the DM site while at work it will ALWAYS lock up my computer.

Macca67

It's not the website. It's people like Fatbrit, elfman and LiW who spend all day on the site clogging it up so no-one else can get on, then pretending they hate it.

Macca67

I thought that was down to all the porno you've stashed on your HDD.

Leslie

How else are they going to know whose fat ass was seen at the beach?

robin1234

I clicked on the DM and it loaded just fine, no problems as far as I can see. That brain-eating amoeba down in Louisiana sounds really scary though.

Leslie

Golly I hope not, I thought you were scanning it before you forwarded it on to me.

Macca67

What's with the 'golly' bullshit? You been taking elocution lessons?

Leslie

Gee, you're terribly aggressive. You must have missed me something awful.

Macca67

A-hah. The local Rep's running a production of 'My Fair Lady.'

Sally Redux

I thought of these