For Buenchico

[emmie]

Chris if you are about, do you know TotalAV a security package.
i lost my ad blocker for some reason and downloaded TotalAV
but not sure if it's actually free as it says.
The ads are all over everything i open, what if anything can be done

[emmie]

i know this site relies on ad revenue, but this is
an issue with everything i open...

[Jackdaw33]

Why don't you just Google Ad Block Plus and download it again from there? You can disable it for specific sites such as AB.

[emmie]

i can try that....

[emmie]

all done...

[Jackdaw33]

Sorted, then. Good

[emmie]

thank you...

[Jackdaw33]

You're welcome. It's amazing how often the simplest solutions just don't occur to you.

[emmie]

no idea why it went in the first place, been having any number of problems with the computer lately...

[Jackdaw33]

Same thing happened to me once.

[emmie]

was wondering whether to buy a new laptop, but average price for new Dell Inspiron is 500 quid.

[waterboatman]

Worth it emmie.

[emmie]

this is over ten years old and has been very good. Though it runs slow now. i was told by a security bod at Kaspersky, when i was trying to download their security package that my OS was very very slow..

[Jackdaw33]

I only paid about £300 for mine about a year ago. Check on Amazon.

[emmie]

i did, average price 479. what did you buy Jack and where

[emmie]

i have just seen a dell inspiron windows 10, ram 4,
for 348 at PC world. is that enough storage........

[Jackdaw33]

I just know it's a Dell Inspiron. I bought it from Amazon and it was definitely under £400.

[emmie]

i guess i need an upgrade really, but ram 8 sounds better but is obviously more expensive

[Buenchico]

I'm late to the party here but I'll just add the following anyway:

TotalAV is well-respected. Just like Avast and AVG, it comes as either a (free) anti-virus program or as a (paid-for) full security program. So the free version will block virus attacks but it won't do anything else.

Many browsers seem to block all/most ads by default anyway these days. I use Firefox, without any 'add-ons'. I never see ads on AB, nor on the website of my local newspaper (that's otherwise packed with them). i.e. I'm not actively seeking to block the ads; they just don't appear for me.

If you've been seeing an unusually high number of ads all over the place, I'd recommend running a malware scan. Download and run AdwCleaner. (There's no installation process; you simply run the downloaded file directly):
https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/