Posted by andrew on 07/12/07 01:25

On 2007-07-11, Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a good friend who asked me to come out and take a look at her
> daughter's computer because it was really slow. Spybot Search and Destroy
> came up with 1,401 malware programs and/or tracking cookies. The anti-
> virus came up with 89 viruses and trojans. I got everything cleaned up,
> installed a Hosts manager, Firefox and Opera (default). Then I told them
> that IE was off limits.

Another good reason to leave Windows behind? The Operating System /
Default browser should never be that insecure.

Andrew

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