yannisfam wrote:
Also, I installed Linkscanner and tried it along with Norton Safe Web in IE8, which works fine, and I searched on purposed for Smiley central which is a known adware and neither of them warned me. They both had the green checkmark next to the result! I will be very doubtful from now on.
Linkscanner supposedly checks the sites in real time. Lately I havent seen anything but green marks from Linkscanner myself but Norton is also indicating that the smiley site is now safe. Maybe they cleaned up the site? I can't determine whether surfing is getting safer because of these link scans or I've just been lucky but I haven't hardly seen any bad links lately. Maybe someone else can point out some known bad sites for testing?
Sounds like your notebook may have more problems than the rest of are having. I think I would try an uninstall/reinstall of Norton. Your desktop does sound like the same problems the rest of us are having.
By the way, I just tried Microsoft's new search engine at www.bing.com. My first impressions are very positive. But both NIS and AVG both fail to check the links. I'm really wondering just how useful these link checkers are going to be over the long run if they can't keep pace with changes to the search engines. The bad part is that after you get used to seeing the link checks you really feel unprotected without them. I almost wish this technology had never been released since it looks like its uability is going to be so questionable.