[extropy-chat] Opera browser, Danny's system glitches

[Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc.]

Had a friend , Danny who had a major glitch which locked him out of his
IE browser for an "illegal function" and seemed to even shut down his
access to his file manager.
He had an old email program that worked but barley.
I downloaded the only browser that makes the "under 10 megs" limit for
our
sasktel email boxes ... Opera without java and emailed it to him.
Even his disk utilities refused yesterday so I went back to the old DOS
prompt  in "safe mode" and did a precautionary scan and defrag  the old
fashioned way.

Then I tried using the opera browser myself and found it seems to work
really neat
so now have all 3 running on mine now.  I have always had both netscape
and IE running.
I have always liked the file cache from Netscape as a way to capture the
odd
slippery file that does not want to save except by scraping it out of
the cache.
I have an old P1 100 MHZ win95 system and at times have locked up the
IExplorer
with too large mail  archives and found that IE can get in  when
Netscape freezes.
We are on an old copper line phone system so speed is horrible so I find
the old stuff matches the
Telco's slow connection anyway.

So diversity is sometimes a real lifesaver.

Do you think my friend might also have a lurking virus as the root cause
of his windows
system problems?

Morris Johnson