///// [extropy-chat] ///// {META - Help re Browsers}

[Mike Lorrey]

--- BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> As you have realised it is almost suicidal to use IE for web browsing
> these days. Even if you load up with all the software for antivirus,
> antispyware, antipopups, etc. some will still get through.
> 
> I use Firefox all the time for browsing and only use IE to get
> patches from MS.
> <http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/>
> 
> Firefox can be customised to operate any way you like. It has
> built-in
> options and dozens of extensions that can be installed. You will have
> to spend some time learning all the new stuff but it is worth it.
> 

I use both IE and Firefox. I keep my virus definitions up to date, I
use a firewall, and I use anti-pop-up and anti-spyware tools. I also
regularly update all my MS things that are recommended. I have few
problems. The occasional pop-up gets through when I'm reading news at
drudgereport.com, for U of Pheonix Online or something else through
"tribalfusion", which imho is the realy spam terrorist of popups.

I haven't had a virus or worm attack in quite a long time. Yahoo mail
is very good at filtering those out of my mail and my AV software
handles website related stuff fine. Ironically I just got a popup when
I went to corporatewatch.org....

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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