winklepickers's avatar
I don't know. I just let him get on with it. He used MacClean and Maintenance I know.
I used Maintenance last night but it's no better. Perhaps as you say there are more people online now than before. I didn't get this last year. My husband gets everything quickly on the laptop (DELL).
We have only a few close neighbours and plenty of bandwidth but it varies so much in speed and good connections that it can only be what you suggest.

Thanks for your help.

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Aspartam's avatar
It can be many things. You are unlikely to have a trojan on macOS, but you use parallels, and I dont know how it is done so it may eventually have a windows nastiness of some sort.
When it is very slow, try to connect to the same site with your husband machine and compare. This way you will know if it comes from the site or network capacity or if there is some problem with your own machine.
Also have a look at your livebox : if its seems to have a frantic activity when you are not doing anything network related, that is bad news, you may have something running you dont want to.
I think a trojan will show also on monitor activity (little black and green icon) and ressources use but with parallels, I dont really know how it works.
winklepickers's avatar
Well I don't open Parallels very often. I use Avast on it. Still I'll check what you suggest.
Connecting on the other computer is an idea.

I always use Safari. Do you think it's worth testing through Firefox?
I know so little on this subject. Thanks a lot for your tips. I've copied all this.
We'll test.
Aspartam's avatar
Safari is good and clean to organize markers. But Firefox has addblocks and that is why I use it. I dont have to load and look at unwanted add, annoyings pop-ups and so on. I think now the fastest browser is Chrome, but havent tried it.
If you use only macOS there are no viruses and ver little risk of trojans. They are possible with parallels probably but since you dont use it when you are experiencing slowness, it is not the case. What is left is slow server response on dA and evenntually, less bandwith if many people are using it. Just like your showers.
winklepickers's avatar
Some months back you mentioned the virtues of Firefox and I got the addblocks to try. They didn't work. I went to the other account where I have no subscription and the "pub" was still there. I must have got the wrong ones.
In three weeks my subscription ends. I'm not going to renew it this time. I can do without. I'll avoid looking at the adds. I hope!
Aspartam's avatar
You installed the addblock extension and it didnt work ? That is strange really. May be some item of configuration is turned off. Be sure to look onto the addblock plus panel and get addblock activated, and the filter automatic loading.
winklepickers's avatar
There were more than one addblocks. I didn't know what to choose so I took both. I suppose I must have neglected something. I never use Firefox so don't really know anything. As usual! ;)

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Well it's better than rain.