Mary Fisher wrote:

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Mary Fisher wrote:
I was suggesting that you need third party programs for protection
(e.g. a
good selection would be a virus scanner (AVG), AdAware, Spywareblaster,
SpybotSD1.3, (possibly ZoneAlarm depending on platform)) to keep safe.

Got 'em all. And run 'em.

Which sort of makes the point very well.

I read news using a text mode newsreader on a Linux box. This
eliminates the need for just about *all* of that extra software you
are running and maintaining. In my opinion my newsreader is also a
much better newsreader than OE but that isn't really the point. I do
much less work to keep safe.

It must be lovely to be perfect.

No not perfect, just lazy! :-)

I wasn't trying to show how clever I am, rather that there are much
*easier* ways than using OE. It also has other benefits which are
probably more relevent to my situation than being of general use so I
haven't listed them as they didn't seem relevant to the present
discussion.

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Chris Green