Online Shopping hints, joys, pitfalls

A while back I became totally against Norton Internet Security and refused to work on anybody’s PC that was infected by it. That’s another story as I remained loyal to Norton AntiVirus, but not any more. I’m not alone as you can see buy doing a G search for “goodbye norton antivirus“. Continue Here…

It’s really hard to keep up with what Google is doing these days. For those that use the Google Toolbar you now have the option of using their Web History.

Using the Toolbar with Page Rank on gives Google the information to track your searches and the web pages you view. They feed this back to Continue Here…

Most everybody is aware of the pop-ups that you can get when you visit a web site. Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 do a pretty good job of blocking most of those. To test your browser you can go to PopupTest. I did and found IE let 3 slip through, and Firefox failed to Continue Here…

This is one of those buyer beware posts. On 03/07/2007 I was shopping for satellite TV and looked over the deals on the internet, and wound up on the DIRECTV web site. Here is a screen shot of part of what caught my eye. Now take a good look at the light grey text at the bottom. That’s the part I failed to see, and so did others that I showed it to.    Here is where the ad is now, but it was up toward the front of the site when I first saw it.

Now I am thinking that the deal me and the sales lady are discussing was for a $39.99 package. She tells me at the end that I’ll get a $10.00 discount for 12 months and I’m thinking my bill would be $29.99. Continue Here…

If you are concerned about surfing safety and the creepiness of a web site, SiteAdvisor might be for you. It’s available as a Firefox Extension or for IE.

McAfee has SiteAdvisor now. I have never had much luck with McAfee, and tried it a couple of months ago with the result that it crashed Firefox often and I  uninstalled it.  Now  on  the second try it seems fine.

What does it do?  Continue Here…