"HeyBub" wrote in message
news
Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
"DGDevin" wrote:

"Steve B" wrote in message ...


I do not click in to any link provided without some description.
Perhaps you can use your fantastic vocabulary to tell us what you
see, and just what your point is.

Paranoid much? In less time than it would have taken to type that
huffy response you could have clicked on the link and seen a Lowe's
ad.

Or perhaps gotten a virus. A woman friend got an email the other day
from DHL, advising her of a shipment that was to be delivered. Clicked
the link and got nailed. There's a bit of a difference between
paranoia and common sense.

That's why those with common sense not only avoid dodgy links, but also
have
anti-malware programs installed.

Of these, there are many free ones that do an excellent job (Avast, Avira,
Microsoft Security Essentials) and commercial ones for not much money. Two
commercial products, however, while they do a good job, demote your
computer
to a slow-moving brick (McAffee and Norton).


Use Firefox and NoScript. Anyone visiting an unfamiliar link with
Javascript enabled is taking a big gamble. Driver sites, ringtone sites,
lyric sites, etc. are famous for drive-by downloads using Javascript. I
always put the URL of a recommended site into Google first to see if it
comes back with "This site may harm your computer."

--
Bobby G.