On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Eric Smith wrote:
> Sellam wrote:
> > I don't use any A/V software. I'm just really disciplined about not
> > downloading crap off the internet, and I use PINE for my e-mail through an
> > SSH session.
>
> If you use IE to browse the web, you can get viruses and spyware without
> even explicitly downloading anything.
Haha. Which is another reason why I switched to Firefox as soon as it was
available in a stable form (and why I run anti-malware software every once
in a while).
Now if they could only fix it so that if one instance of a browser
crashes, they all do NOT crash. What a sad architecture! Ugh! This has
happened enough times to become severely annoying at this point.
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