Has DING caused anyone PC problems?

[harleyquinn]

Hi!
I'm trying to convince Dh that downloading DING won't kill our computer. He thinks it'll slow everything down and let hackers get through very easily. Our friends downloaded weatherbug ( a live update system for weather) and it crashed their computer.

Has anyone had any problems like this with DING?

 

[crazyforgoofy]

I have a firewall and other security stuff on a fairly fast, fairly new computer. That said I've had no problems at all with Ding. It didn't cause any problems at all.

 

[rlduvall]

I put it on both my computer at work and my computer at home. The one at home, which is brand new, I've had absolutely no problems. But honestly, I took it off the one at work. It's an older system networked with my Home Office in L.A. (I'm in Oklahoma) and I truly believe it hung me up a few times. I finally noticed that right before it went to "ding" me, it would sometimes cause my computer to lock up and I would have to manually reboot. It just wasn't worth the bother to me anymore. Besides, my company might not have liked me doing that anyway.

 

[CarolynNC]

Hi!
I'm trying to convince Dh that downloading DING won't kill our computer. He thinks it'll slow everything down and let hackers get through very easily. Our friends downloaded weatherbug ( a live update system for weather) and it crashed their computer.

Has anyone had any problems like this with DING?

It works great on my computer. Weatherbug is notorious for causing computer problems. It is classified as AdWare. I keep pretty current on programs, downloads, and junk which trash computers since I have a teenage son and multiple computers and I haven't read any negative feedback on DING.

 

[harleyquinn]

Thanks everyone!

He still won't let me do it. I can't do it at work either, so I'm going to ask our friends that will be coming to WDW with us to get it. They're on the computer more often than us anyway.

Thanks!

 

[Alicnwondrln]

i have several computers and its fine on some but i have XP on one and its not so good there

 

[littlestar]

I had to disable my Norton Internet Security for 5 minutes to be able to download Ding. Then after I downloaded it, Norton asked me if I wanted to allow it and I said "always allow" it. It runs great. No problems. I've got Windows XP.

 

[cranbiz]

I have DING on my laptop, desktop and my work computer. All are XP Proand I have no troubles at all. I'm an IT person and have a lot of strange stuff on my PC's and there has not been any adverse effects at all.

I would never run Weatherbug. It is adware/spyware and causes all sorts of problems. We remove it from any computer at work when we find it.