" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"David Scheidt" wrote in message
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There are a large number of exploits that take advantage of bugs in
web browsers to do nasty things. They're mostly, but not entirely,
confined to Internet Explorer. Most of them turn up as "zero-day"
exploits, meaning that malicious use of them is being made when
security researchers announce their existence. The Windows operating
system itself has any number of remote exploits in it; some of these
could be used by a website.

David


I am still getting an occasional pop up coming through, but nothing like
what was happening before I installed Spy Doctor. I think I'll start
using Firefox as the browser again but would like to keep using OE for
email and newsgroups. Probably a mistake, huh? I could never get used
to Agent or Thunderbird.

Eisboch


There are some pretty decent plugins for Firefox. These include AdBlock,
TinyURL and others. A nice site showing them is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpellBound_(spell_checker)

I have been using Firefox for some time now and am quite happy with it.

Like you I could never get used to Thunderbird so I stick with OE.



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