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Sitting in Helena, MT for a week. Maybe more. Lincoln Road RV Park is roomy but it is mostly DIY when it comes to anything needing office or staff. Not a bad thing but i have not found out how to get propane tanks refilled, here. Office hours are sporadic... like fishing in a high wind.... maybe catch'em.. maybe not. Enjoy the Rally, guys. Maybe next year.

HI Rick, We are just two doors down from you in Rocky Mountain RV Park. We leave in the morning for.... somewhere west, maybe Helena. Not decided. Amazon in Fernley may be on the table or Port Orford, OR. Hope it stops raining and we can chat for a few minutes before we leave.

Well, we finally left Sioux Falls this morning. Staying in Kennebec, SD overnight then pressing on toward Hart Ranch, Mt Rushmore, Mike and Pat McFalls, Devil's tower, Tetons, Craters of the Moon, Glacier NP. Eventually we should end up on the Southern Oregon coast after going through Astoria on the way. No hurry.

In the FWIW dept: We are back in Raleigh, NC for a few weeks before heading to Champaign, IL and then points west.

Here, Here! All good stuff and I also, temper my temper with temperate participation... it's the only rational way to cope.... kinda like the way one copes with government.

Umm. Good to know, Derek. Thanks. I guess I was being a bit vague in saying MSE but I did not install that, specifically. I have just been using the Built in WIndows Defender in 8, as you suggest. That is what I have seen occasionally grabbing CPU cycles for long (minutes to half hours) periods.

Yep.. sounds just like my philosophy before I quit working on PCs for others. Yes, one can fix anything but stupid or stubborn. I have not accepted any work before Vista for several years and counting. They eat my lunch everytime I crack open a case, no matter what the real "end" problem turns out to be. I make sure my own stuff is protected and count on a clean restart if anything ever got infected more than MSE can fix... or maybe MalWareBytes. It is just not worth the overall headache of "now what caused that to not install?". I try a lot of software and a little hardware from time to time and rarely is it anything that has a fully supported Microsoft secured driver so not getting my feet tangled in the entrails of the system when installing such things is a priority for me, now. For others, not so much I am sure. The cases I have seen MSE Defender hogging CPU have been very random but persistent. We are wifi bound at 802.11b with caps of 750kbps down up to 300mb. In an 80 site RV park this is almost criminal negligence these days. The ISP is BellSouth and the feed is shared with 2 huge outlet malls 2 blocks away and you can really tell when they open their stores and start working. Somehow, I suspect that MSE is overworking a lot of the timeouts and reconnects because I don't see this happening when the connectivity is smoother. I never saw Avast do this sort of thing so I may go back to it, eventually. Have not had it on my Win 8 OS so far. just too busy and overloaded due to poor Internet connectivty for the last 18 months. I know, whine, whine, whine!!!!! ttfn.

PCMag just did a review of the major A/V and Malware protections: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388652,00.asp In general, I agree... except for Norton, McAfee and Kaspersky.... I just don't go there anymore. Remember, what is great today may not be so great next month/year... (eg. Norton's and McAfee). I used to use AVG but as a PC wrench, I always needed to stay up to date on such things and in the process of "fixing" a lot of other people's machines that became contaminated I became more concerned about the collateral damages that many of these "fixers" caused the hosting machines. In the end, I settled down to Avast and AVG. They go on easy, don't consume a lot of system resources to do what they do and can be successfully removed without having to resort to the ultimate removal tool.... FDISK / Format. Microsoft Essentials has seemed to catch all the stuff that may rarely get to my system but I have seen many times that system performance has been hurt by 50% or more due to MSE operations (according to the Task Manager performance tool). If an infection does occur and whatever I have running does not kill it AND successfully remove it, I immediately go to MalWareBytes for the best removal with the least risk and trouble. In some cases, detecting an invasion does not automatically mean that it has been killed or removed, too and in a few cases, it took 2 or more runs of the removal processes to actually get rid of the infection. There is no advantage to having a 100% protection rate if 100% of the time the protection software degrades your system's performance and interferes with the installation / removal of other software and drivers (ie. Norton's, McAfee, Kaspersky). My first choice on WIndows 8 is just let MSE do its thing. If you find that you are still picking up vermin, set up limited and strongly protected non-administratively enabled users for others that use your machine and for heaven's sake, quit pulling executables from usenet and stop visiting porn sites!

Stagecoach RV park in St Augustine, FL thru Sept.

We are still in the Smithfield KOA in Four Oaks, NC. I-95 NC Exit 90. Merrily is doing well in the truck driving training class. Got 3 weeks to go. We are not clear on where to next but do have our Dec-Mar reservations at the Portobelo Village RV Park in Aransas Pass, Tx so we have a block of time to fill between now and then.

Back at SKP Rainbow Plantation in Summerdale until Tuesday. #66. See ya'll.

Jackson, Mississippi (see, I can still spell it) til Sunday. Then back down to Rainbow Plantation in Summerdale, AL for a few more days before heading back to Raleigh, NC about 6/15. Lord, please help us hold it together on these Mississippi highways. I have driven across smoother plowed fields. I'm going to have to have a few fillings put back in my teeth.

... Let it go, guys, before you get hurt.

So I guess, come the next hurricane threat, the evacuation order is going to be something like: Evidence first, criminals second, civilians somewhere in the "fend for yo'self, again" catagory. Think they will have enough unairconditioned school buses to move all that evidence to Ishkooda, Al?

Heading to Holly Point campground in the Falls Lake Recreation Area north of Raleigh, NC. Should be there 13-16. Just Water/Electric... if that matters.

Well, Bob, from what the rest of us can see... your efforts are not paying off.....<g>... work harder... ... Still stuck here in NC.