OT; Piggin Bling!

[The Natural Philosopher]

The real decision is to go 'conservative' with a bug free debian stable...that doesn't support the hardware...or 'bleeding edge' Mint or ubuntu and be prepared for some weirdos here and there.

[GB]

Is this in preparation for TMH launching its computer repair arm? ;-)

[The Medway Handyman]

Might be TMH launching his "hit the bloody thing with a hammer" arm.

[Robin]

Don't do that! They almost always come with a tray which pops out to show you where to insert a small angle grinder ;)

[Vir Campestris]

I suspect it's more "As it's the most commonly used OS on the net, and most of the users know nothing about computers, it's a magnet for malware writers"

I gather Android (which is of course running under Linux) is gathering some attention recently.

Andy

[Huge]

Interesting that you attach the words "of course" to something completely wrong.

[Johny B Good]

That seems a bit harsh. Android isn't running _under_ Linux, Android _is_ (based on a kernel of) Linux.

Wikipedia explains this better than I can:

[The Medway Handyman]

Name AVG Security Toolbar Publisher AVG Technologies Status Disabled Architecture 32-bit Load time (0.01 s)

Name AVG Security Toolbar Publisher AVG Technologies Status Disabled Architecture 32-bit Load time (0.01 s)

[Jabba]

The Medway Handyman scribbled...

This setting

"Enable 3rd party browser extensions" Should put a stop to toolbars being installed on IE.

[The Medway Handyman]

Just noticed that the web address is shown as trovi.com

[Jabba]

The Medway Handyman scribbled...

You've been hijacked

When the Trovi.com browser hijacker is installed on your computer without your knowledge, it is not easy to remove. Unfortunately, there is no Uninstall Programs entry that uninstalls Trovi.com from your computer. In this case, you need to use the specialized tools found in this removal guide to cleanup your computer.

[Jabba]

Jabba scribbled...

More here

[The Medway Handyman]

Thanks for all the replies. I downloaded CCleaner and it seems to have sorted it.

Once again, thanks.