On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:58:41 +0000, Mike Young wrote:

"Abrasha" wrote in message
...

Get rid of MS Internet Explorer, and you won't have to worry about
spyware, malware, browser hijacks, etc.

If you don't want to drop IE, at least get Ad-Aware and Spybot, Search &
Destroy.

Thanks for the thought; I know you mean well. The simple truth is,
anti-virus and anti-this'n'dat caused me more problems and grief than any
SNIP

Ad-Aware and Spybot are really good proggies, my girlfriend uses them on
her machine. (She has Windows XP, I run Linux)

I recently tried Firefox/Mozilla. It's probably safe from the current
strains of infection, but it's also quite immune to useful, simple
things like wmv. No thanks.

Interesting, I can view wmv files on my linux box and I use Firefox... so
can my girl who runs firefox on her Windows machine.

Mike
(OB r.c.m. content: Building a foundry at the moment for bronze work,
scored two free bags of kast-o-lite 2600 from a local supplier because
the use by date was past... what the hell? Why a use by date on
refractory? I'm not complaining but...)