Hi Bishy

Might just be that you need to set glocals as a safe site in your Norton settings.

Can you please send the screenshot to me at oded at glocals dot com ?

Thanks

Oded

Thanks Oded! I just sent it. The problem is that I only get this message when I open glocals, while everyday I open quite a lot of new sites, so was wondering why...

Hi Bishy,

If Oded's suggestion does not work can I suggest going one step further.

What Browser are you using? If it is Explorer it could be that you need to save the site in your browsers trusted sites section.

You can do this by going to TOOLS / INTERNET OPTIONS

Then go to SECURITY

Then go to TRUSTED SITES

In the section at the top type http://www.glocals.com    then hit the ADD button.

This will make sure this site does not create any waves in your browser. Norton may be picking this up from there.

You can also download Safari or Firefox from the web and try them.

There is always a fiddling little reason for these issues.

Hope you have no more trouble.

Neil

Thanks a lot Niel! Although the issue is solved but the info you gave is useful for future also. I use Internet Explorer. I will definitely try Safari and Firefox. Will you please advise me on something, I hate Windows vista which I am using now, can I change to windows XP or windows 7 easily? Or do you think it will cost me more than a new computer (I bought my laptop 6 months ago)

Downgrading to XP may or may not be easy. Some manufacturers provide drivers for XP but others don't. I learned that the hard way.....

Upgrading to Windows 7 is definitely possible. Not sure how you define "easy" but it should be pretty straight forward. Just buy it and go!

And regarding the problems you are having above - contact me and we can discuss it. there's a lot more to it than meets the eye...

Dear Bishy,

it is a real shame that our friends at Microsoft do not take time to properly test their products. XP was solid (and indeed my PC is still running it). The issue was that the MAC OSX product was so cool that MS wanted to make their products just as sexy.

Going back down to XP is not a good idea. If your PC came with Vista then the drivers (just as Zonker said - cheers Zonka) will probably not be downward compatible. Vista drivers will also possibly be an issue with Windows 7. Going by their past performance I would NOT upgrade yet.

I like to see the first 6 months of online screams before upgrading - hence me not going to Vista.

You may find that virus software, explorer, and background applications can slow your machine down. So one thing to do is to check to icons on the right hand side of your screen to see what is actually running. There may be a load of crap going on that you never use.

Wait until March then see again if Windows 7 is worth the trouble.

Always happy to help if needed.

Neil

So one thing to do is to check to icons on the right hand side of your screen to see what is actually running. There may be a load of crap going on that you never use.

In XP to turn off those things running that you often don't use, or need to have your computer slowed down can be fixed by going to start, run, type in msconfig, ok,go to startup  and then you get to check off all those extras you don't need,, hit okay, and then restart to get the results,  but in Vista I have no idea how you reach the same menu to get those kind of results, maybe someone else knows that ?

You are looking for the grandly named 'Windows defender'!  the below will explain:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/stop-an-application-from-running-at-startup-in-windows-vista/