Trader2, Its relative, they are a pretty big company. I do agree with you that this sort of thing is a pain but I chose to continue to use them knowing that these things happen, you will probably chose not to ;-)

Space - I've had worse experiences with ebuyer - but still go back to them when they offer a good price. I always make a point of posting about exceptionally good and bad experiences.

The trend is for keener prices and poorer service. Trend will no doubt continue - as they do.

The cost of selling goes down and the cost of buying goes up.

I'd like to see it possible to easily sue for small damages - to stop the above trend pushing the cost of buying too high and achieve a reasonable balance cost balance.

Help - i've got real problems with my machine running slow due to high cpu usage.
What can I do about this?
The offending programs are advfn L2 (I also take the moneyam one via etrade and would be happy to dump advfn except I can't make the screens small enough in large mode - in particular I need to see the trades). I also strongly suspect the spreadright software from IG is doing something it shouldn't or is somehow conflicting with finspreads. Either seems to run ok as long as the other one is not loaded. When both loaded cpu usage runs near permanently at 100% and even when i close them I don't appear to get back as much cpu time as I would if I'd never loaded them in the first place.

I have a P4 1600 with 768 ram.

CC a few questions, have you checked for Spyware etc? is you Hard DIsk fragnmented or full? What Operating Sytem are you using?

Spaceman - yes checked for usual stuff with spybot. I reguarly run the defrag and delete all the temporary internet files.
Running Win2000.
Have been thinking about dumping advfn L2 (even though I like it) and using moneyam through etrade all the time. If I did this I could get another monitor with the money saved.

CC, In windows 2000 you can use Task Manager to tell you which processes are gobbling up the CPU. If it's IE and you have a number of IEXPLORE processes, End Process to see which one it is. If it's just one because you've used ctrl-N to create new windows, try again without using ctrl-N, i.e. using the icon each time.

CC
have you had any other browser type problems? eg slowness or odd bookmarks? any strange behavior when you type a wrong URL? add search engines poping up eg coolwebsearch?

I doubt if ADVFN is the problem but I dont use them for L2. Cant comment on IG.

ADVFN L2 is a known issue with gobbling cpu time. A year ago it wasn't such an issue but they have added so many bells and whistles to the java I am beginning to find it unuseable now when the market moves fast as it runs up to 2 seconds delayed as my cpu can't keep up.
Kayak-been looking at task manager all day - won't use ctrl N on Monday and try to get to the bottom of it.
What's frustrating is that this problem has only started this month - wasn't running anything new when it started happening although now I've added IG as well problem has moved from an odd annoyance to a constant problem when market is busy.
Going to try ADFVN old L2 feed on Monday and I can live without IG most of the time - the spreads are crap.

I do have the odd problem when I open the advfn or moneyam home page - sometimes that IE window freezes for up to 10 seconds - I'm sure it's something to do with the damn popups. When it freezes I have no control over it whatsoever - can't minimise or anything then suddenly the popups windows appear and I get control back. This happens about once in 10 times I access these homepages.

CC i dont think you have hijack problems but its probably worth going to www.spywareinfo.com and downloading and running CWshredder, this will clear any coolwebsearch and similar hijacks. Make sure you close all browsers before running it.

CC, if you find the answer to the popup freezing problem tell me, I've had it for years. Only solution I know of is a popup stopper.

K, I get it even with a popup stopper !

Change popup stopper! Mine gets rid of the problem except for the odd ones which it doesn't manage to stop.

Does anyone know how to copy the drop-down list contents of a web page into
a text file?

Thanks

Kayak et al , what is W32/Pate.b.worm Virus ?

How do I get rid of it ?

Cheers

Dil, I think the macafee stinger will get it have a look here :-

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

Thanks Spaceman , will try it later when I get home.

Cheers

C:\System Volume Information\_restore{AA094F65-1FA4-48B9-9E39-ED39AB7C3319}\RP184\A0035681.exe is infected with Trojan.Digits
C:\System Volume Information\_restore{AA094F65-1FA4-48B9-9E39-ED39AB7C3319}\RP165\A0034364.dll is infected with Trojan.Digits

I found these with norton -but can i remove them - not a chance!!!!
Can any one help?
Also on pop ups and " i ma monice 18yrs and just got a webcam" the usual bull hardcore stuffs - i have bought spyware ,adfree,avn,pcdoor -and put urls to block but do they work -NO.
can anyone help??
thanking u in advance
zarif

zarif,
I think this one is a derivative of coolwebsearch but I dont know a simple removal.

Do you have adaware installed? is so run it if not install it and run it. Then install and run Spybot Search and Destroy. Then download CWshredder.exe from www.spywareinfo.com and run it after closing all open browser windows.

Then rerun your visus checker and see if you still have an infection if so I suggest you do a search using google for 'Trajan.Digits removal' as I dont know the details for this trojan.

Post here if you need any further info.

spaceman: many thanks will do and let u know how i get on.

rgds
zarif

Thanks to those who helped re my cpu usuage problems. Not completely sorted but discovered the following:
ADVFN L2 - if you enter the wrong epic it brings up a box with "incorrect epic" or something. CPU usuage then goes 100% until you close the box even if you close the underlying ie page
ADVFN streaming charts - if you run these in 100x100 size they use alot of memory and cpu. However if you run them in 75x75 it uses a quite distusting large amount of cpu (strikes me as v bad programming if just changing the magnification of the chart makes so much difference). Won't be using advfn streaming ftse tomorrow - will try with d4f - at least it won't chew cpu time