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GloriaJean

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  1. I thought you were a lot like me, but probably much younger. Like I said in 1982 I was 25 maybe and when my office manager was showing me how to get to Word Perfect through the c> and since I typed over 60 wpm I was jumping from Word Perfect to Lotus to VAX and then formatting disc drives. One time I actually formatted the hard drive because I was going to fast. But how I took off was knowing Word Perfect. I learned all the little tricks with that program. That job went under and when I got hired from a Research and Development firm in Emeryville CA they basically hired me for my Word Perfect experience and there I taught the clerical staff and my Office Manager. I got three raises in 12 months all around 7%. I loved working out in CA, I never was without a job for more than a week. When I came back to PA I had to start all over again and went from a job making 32,000 to 12,000 and they had MAC's and I could have died. When I got my first IBM at the county (almost 10 years later, every comes to the east 10 years later) I went off like a storm. My bosses were floored, asking me how do you know how to use the computer like that, I said I lived in CA for 11 years and was on this same computer 10 years ago. So then they gave me forms to create through a really old program, I showed them off on that, then I got databases to critique, they were moving up slowly, did a conversion and the new database was all wrong, the conversion went bad. Then I talked them into the a better database and I was in charge of that, finding the bugs and reporting them to the tech guy to fix them. But the problem was I didn't get the raises and I didn't get the titles. Since it was a local government job you can work for 20 years and be 55 years old and you can retire. So the day of my 55th birthday I put in my letter. They burned me out so fast because I was cleaning computers, putting them together for new employees, teaching people, helping people, setting up board rooms, typing, filing and answering the phones. I almost had a nervous breakdown. They knew I had MH problems and they didn't care. I actually hated everyone when I was leaving. It took me 2 years to get over the bad memories of that job. My boss wouldn't let me take a day off because she needed me there everyday. That did it. I lost it on Secretary's Day when I got nothing. My temper was really bad but they still could have got me a muffin or something. I saved all their asses for 22 years, all the work that they did they almost lost, I got it back. Well, you take care my friend, if you ever need to talk computers problems, you can help me. I'm out of the loop. Gloria
  2. That's me too, you must have ADHD or something, sorry if you don't, but I always got bored in school, can't sit still for a lot of things, but when I got my first computer, I just seemed to understand everything, programs, and then when Windows came out, I learned more and more by myself too. Everything I know I did by myself, clicking here and there and the help button too. If the screen is upside down I just knew how to fix it. My coworkers would be stunned by how I knew, but all I did was guess and I fixed a lot of things by guessing. One time the IT department was trying to fix an audio problem in the conference room, huge receivers and such. I bought a new audio wire cause someone spliced the other one and then I plugged it in the back of the receiver and boom, I got it working and the IT person said what did you do, I just said, I plugged the wire in the back. They didn't even think of looking there and I got it working and they felt dumb as a box of rocks because three of the guys were trying all these other things and I figured it out. I got their respect after that, and whatever I needed for my agency I got from the IT department and I could go into their department and get whatever I wanted. No questions asked. I was asked to critique databases and join committee's, they wanted my input and I don't have any college degrees, just a secretary.. So, you and I share the same experience, but since I retired I am out of the loop. If you see me on here again, I hope I get you. By the way, I restarted my computer, started my VPN, it was on Public Computer, don't know how that happened. But is seems to be working great now. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful weekend and holiday and I hope your company respects you and gives you a raise. That is all I ever wanted more money for all the knowledge I had, but never got it. Good luck and God Bless Gloria
  3. Ooops. Sorry, but thank you so much for all your help. I knew contacting Malwarebytes before deleting it would solve my problem. Avast just thinks it was the Malware program was causing all the problems, but I told them I don't think it was. I wish I could have gone to school for computers, be a engineer or something, I love to fix the problems but I don't know as much as you do. I do know a lot than most people. Databases is my thing, and I can take a desktop computer apart and I know where all the parts go. I have cleaned many in my days and I'm 60 years old. 1982 was the year I got my first IBM, and I love it. Thank you again. God Bless
  4. Removing McAfee now, I thought I got rid of it, but I think another program downloaded it again. Didn't see it in Removal Program using the Control Panel. This is probably what is making my VPN go haywire.
  5. I clicked on choose files and selected the zip folder and now don't see it anywhere. I will try it again.
  6. Thank you for getting back to me. Your right, I have had no issues, they are working perfectly together. I am using Avast Antivirus but I also have Avast Cleanup Premium and Secure Line. Now the Secure Line doesn't work right and Avast says it's because I have Malwarebytes, well they don't know which malware program I have but they want me to delete it. Your suggestions sounds great to exclude them from each other, but I would have to read the directions on how to do this. When I look under Avast's firewall, Malwarebytes is there and it says allowed, so to me that tells me that it accepts the program. Tell me more about this exclude, or maybe everything is just the way it should be?
  7. I have an antivirus software that I purchased a license for, but I also purchased a license for Malwarebytes. Now the Antivirus software company wants me to remove this program because they conflict. Since I have had both on my computer I haven't had any issues but they want me to delete it. I looked in the firewall section of the antivirus program and this program is allowed so what is the problem. They say they already have a malware protection in their program, but before purchasing Malwarebytes I lost a computer to either a malware or a virus. Why can't both work together in harmony? Or should I delete Malwarebytes because it conflicts with my Antivirus program? Any help would be appreciated.
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