wrote:

However normally it would be because you were using a web browser
unlikely to be vulnerable to web based exploits, your virus scanner will
be running, it's signature files up to date. So to your firewall. You
will have installed the Sun JVM as a replacement for the Microsoft one
and made it the default.

However if you are visiting a site you are unsure about you will have
turned off both Java and Javascript, at least initially.

If you still have doubts, type the URL into google and see if there are
discussions raging about it.

Don't be an early adopter, wait for a couple of others to post responses
to what they have read. If they are not complaining about an itchy
feeling in their bin directory, chances are you will be ok as well!


So you do this every time you look at a file? It would make web
browsing rather laborious in my opinion.

Well the things relating to setup and choice of software are fit and
forget one off operations. The latter steps would only come into play if
I had doubts about the site I was visiting. Since most of the time I am
going to recomended sites, or ones I regularly visit however, it is not
usualy an issue.



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Cheers,

John.

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