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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 11/25/38 11:54
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Mark Parnell
<webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au> writing in news:1ochq748ow8lv
$.dlg@markparnell.com.au:
> Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Stan McCann
><me@stanmccann.us> declared in alt.html,alt.www.webmaster:
>
>> I don't browse with scripting enabled and I rarely get
>> viruses or spyware.
>
> I browse with scripting enabled and I rarely get viruses or spyware. I
> just don't use IE. :-)
>
I also browse with scripting enabled, and I haven't had any problems
since 2003 when something nasty got to my hosts file.
I think these are what make me safe:
1. AVG Free and run it every night.
2. Spybot Search and Destroy and run it every Saturday.
3. StartUp Monitor (great little program keeps programs like Adobe from
running at startup) <http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml>
4. Hosts file from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm, you get a
lot of 404 adverts (but I love that because I changed my 404 to read
"Doh! The web site cannot be found!")
5. Spyware Guard <http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html>,
silently blocks your browser from certain sites - works for IE and FF.
6. I use Opera almost exclusively.
--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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