my pc's about a year old and it's getting too slow to handle all the things I need to trade with. The problem has got alot worse in the last 6 weeks.

then I noticed the city equities advertisment next to my heatmap. You know the one which actually shows your name on the roulette wheel. This seems to absolutely chew up cpu time but most annoyingly if I right click on it I don't get any properties to see what software it's using.

Advice please. I had this problem about 2 years ago but in the end I paid advfn a tenner a month to not take their adverts where flash seemed to be the problem.

I think I need to find a way to turn these cpu intensive adverts off.


PS - pc is a 3.0 ghz pentium 4 with 3 gig of ram in it and a matrox g200mms quad card. I've just bought a g450mms to replace that with as it was cheap enough on ebay to see if that helps

I run a stack of applications when I'm trading but my pc could more than keep up until 6 weeks ago and I've added no new ones.

CC, use task manager to find out which processes are using up the most CPU time.

Kayak - it's the city equities advert for sure. Go to ftse100 heatmap and keep refreshing it until you city equities roulette advert. You'll know it's the right one because it's the only advert i've ever seen which has my name in it.

With just that ie screen up my cpu is running at about between 20 and 80% constantly on my laptop (less on my pc)

So i guess i'll just have to not run heatmap tomorrow and see what happens.

The City Equities causes my PC to spend about 30% of its time on iexplore.exe (MS Internet Explorer). I guess it is some Java.

Hmm. It's the City Equities ad alright -- but I don't think it's a Java issue, per se. It's definitely doing something really mill-intensive.

Is it constantly acquiring the name to display over and over again?

My surname has an S at the beginning, but City Equities have this as a 5. So it's acquiring the name by interrogating something or doing an OCR. I find this quite disturbing from a personal privacy point of view.

SC - yes I found the name disturbing at first - invasion of pricacy sort of thing but I guess City Equities don't actually have access to your details - the advert will be written by moneyam and as such they just access their own database. Very clever marketing.

Why does my surname have the 5, not an S then???

Curious.

If they are running a Java applet on your computer which has obtained that information, is there anything to stop it sending that info to City Equities?

Edit

My network crashed as I was typing the above post. Am I going paranoid?

Rob - you'll be known as 5eymour Clearly from now on -- 5C for short.

I would assume that MAM has provided an interface for the ad to address you personally and that information will not be available to City Equities, so I doubt there's a privacy issue. MAM are sensitive to such issues, I'm sure.

Optimist: Yes ;-)

Haystack: I don't think it is continually acquiring the name. But something's cosuming a lot of mill. Flash?

I had similar problems a few years ago with a Flash ad on the other side. I think some of them are just very badly written. In the ideal world web sites would test the ads before running them.

Kayak - you must mean the famous IG index ad - it was so bad I ended up paying advfn to not take their adverts. They were completely insensitive to the issue.

I'm sure moneyam will come up with a sensible solution. but for today no heatmap which is a pain.

Cheers Derek.

53YM0UR Cl38RL7

I read that easily, I need to go to Specsavers :-)

Ssshhhhhhhhhhhhh, Kayak. He gets very upset when you say that word.

:o)

Well so he should.

537MOU8 C134817 ;)

Still struggling with the fallout from zotzing cookies :S

Couldn't read yours Choccy. You must have been to S


omewhere else :-)

pc ran fine today with heatmap. Guess I'll just have to source it from somewhere else until the ad campaign with city equities is finished

Anyone able to help a technophobic.

Since upgrading to Vista I often encounter the following problem when attempting to go onto Internet Explorer. Sometimes it requires over 5 attempts till it works.
I open Internet Explorer and am presented with the following message (and often a frozen screen).

Internet Explorer has encountered a problem with an add-on and needs to close.

Add-on name Site Adv.dll
Company name McAfee Inc
Details Site Adviser.

Once open the problem does not arise, it is just on the initial opening of IE.

I do not want to loose this add-on if possible.
Suggestions gratefully received.