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Posted by William Tasso on 10/22/03 11:54
Fleeing from the madness of the arbpen.com jungle
Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> stumbled into
news:alt.html,alt.www.webmaster
and said:
> 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.
Personally, I simply don't let client-side script run in IE and only allow
a limited subset in Opera & FireFox.
> 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.
Interesting - how many workstations do you run that lot on?
I've looked at the hosts file replacement before - can't be bothered with
deploying to all machines. When I get a supply of curcular tuits I'll
build a routine to gen local zone files from that hosts list.
--
William Tasso
http://williamtasso.com/words/what-is-usenet.asp
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