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168178 2003-08-18 05:38:00 > Where have I gone wrong then? Is it just luck?

To a certain extent, I believe, but mostly by practicing safe surfing and internet habits. Like you, I have had very few problems (touchwood) but I still arm myself with heavy artillery just in case.

Anyway, how does tweak'e know for sure that the pc's he cleans out have been surfing sensibly? ;-)
Fire-and-Ice (3910)
168179 2003-08-18 06:15:00 I would guess, godfather, that you haven't got a huge collection of MP3s (and/or "adult" images) which you have been downloading. :D

I would also guess that your computers have software which has been loaded and left alone.
Graham L (2)
168180 2003-08-18 07:07:00 Possibly that is the reason. I really feel left out though...... godfather (25)
168181 2003-08-18 23:42:00 comon its not hard to check through where someone has been surfing exspecially if they use IE. the catch however is what do you call surfing sensibly? ;-)

i suspect the reason godfather is leftout of the fun is he has enough brains to actually read whats hes installling and the amazing ability to click "no" when asked "do you whish to install XXX dailer?" :-)

strangly enough some of the worse sites for ramming activeX installed software (eg spyware/dailers) down your gob seems to be kids gameing sites :(


unforunatly the ones who really need to use firewalls are the ones who have no idea what a firewall/spyware/trogen is which kinda makes it a catch 22.
tweak'e (174)
168182 2003-08-19 00:05:00 > strangly enough some of the worse sites for ramming activeX installed software (eg spyware/dailers) down your gob seems to be kids gameing sites

Maybe you should suggest those people use Firebird or Mozilla as a browser instead of IE then. No more pop ups and no more Active X problems. ;-)
Fire-and-Ice (3910)
168183 2003-08-19 09:17:00 yeah i normally do tho i prefer opera :-)

however a lot of people have no idea what a browser is or that there are alternatives.
tweak'e (174)
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