Security on new Win 7 64 Pro computer

[ed_shaw]

Judy: I uninstalled Code Stuff Starter. The WOT was not comfortable with the Tripod download site. I ran Superspy after reinstalling it. Superspy then found six tripod files to delete
and WOT popped up an "untrustworthy" seal. So I uninstalled it. OK if I put off Start Menu management for the time being?

Are you comfortable with making a system image for restore purposes at this stage? The vendor will take me and the machine through this if and when
the system is clean. I feel it will never run better than it is running now.

[jholland1964]

Are you comfortable with making a system image for restore purposes at this stage?
Is the system clean?

Not until you answer my question from last night,
You Said:

Last, am I always going to see the Startup Program window after booting Mozilla?

And I asked you:

What Startup Program window???? You mean CodeStuff Starter? It has nothing to do with Firefox. Not sure what you mean by this, can you give me a printscreen?

[ed_shaw]

When I click Explorer>All Programs>
I show a folder named "Startup."
In that folder is a program named "Hotkey"
In that folder, to the best of my knowledge, was also a shortcut to Codestuff, before I uninstalled it.
When I click on C Drive> Programs
I find no folder named "Startup."

[jholland1964]

Judy: I uninstalled Code Stuff Starter. The WOT was not comfortable with the Tripod download site. I ran Superspy after reinstalling it. Superspy then found six tripod files to delete
and WOT popped up an "untrustworthy" seal. So I uninstalled it. OK if I put off Start Menu management for the time being?

Are you comfortable with making a system image for restore purposes at this stage? The vendor will take me and the machine through this if and when
the system is clean. I feel it will never run better than it is running now.

No, at this point I am not because, to be perfectly honest, I don't feel you really know what you are doing.

First of all, I gave you the CORRECT web site link to get Codestuff and that web site was Snapfiles and all you had to do was click the link. No typing/searching involved, just click the link and you would have been taken directly to Snapfiles, which has an EXCELLENT WOT Rating.



http://www.snapfiles.com/get/starter.html

WHO told you to go to Tripod??? I certainly didn't.

Secondly, even if I had told you to go to a Tripod link to download the programs the Tripod link receives a GOOD WOT rating, NOT an untrustworthy one, so you obviously didn't even go to that correct one.

Look for yourself, click this link:

http://codestuff.tripod.com/products_starter.html#down

You will see a GREEN WOT rating, and it is rated GOOD. Just as shown in my attachment.

The tripod web site itself is not really a download site, though they do have some downloads there, it is a Website building, Blog hosting web site. It also has an EXCELLENT WOT rating.

Look for your self and see my attachment

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

Now the "tone" of this post may make you feel I am getting somewhat frustrated, well to be honest I am. You asked for my help, which I am more than happy to give, however, you have taken steps not given and then delayed telling me. You have not gone to the download sites I have given you used others instead.
Your comment that the WOT rating for a web site, that I did not give you, was an unsatisfactory web site and therefore you uninstalled the program I gave you based on a rating from a web site that I did not recommend and obviously was not even the site that YOU thought it was because the actual site has a good rating.
This implies to me that you think I would have recommended an unsafe program and an unsafe website...neither of which are true and would never be true.

I honestly don't care one way or another if your use Codestuff or not. I only gave you that so that you would not be tempted to use msconfig to control your start ups because that is not what that is for, Microsoft state that very plainly themselves...It is a Troubleshooting tool ONLY and should not be used to control auto starting programs.