| I don't entirely blame users I don't entirely blame users for their predicament.
Microsoft enables lots of features that are inherently insecure (although admittedly they've been getting better at NOT doing this) and leaves them open.
Spyware/virus authors have been getting extremely sophisticated in their methods of installing and keeping spyware on your machine. One piece of spyware I've come across (clientman) took great pains to disguise itself, by littering it's DLL's all over your disk, then randomly re-naming them. Couple that with a memory resident program AND a BHO to keep itself installed. Neither the latest versions of Spybot S&D nor Ad-Aware could have removed this pest. I had to manually go into the system and hunt for all the littered pieces to get rid of it. |
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| Here's what I use:
»mozilla.org |
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 TomekPremium
join:2002-01-30
Valley Stream, NY | said by verolom:
Here's what I use:
»mozilla.org
Best solution.
No automatic installs or worthless stuff and no strange activex and plus integrated pop-out blocker and cookie/image handling.
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| reply to southietech
Not really the fault of the average user. The average user doesn't even know what a cookie is. If computers are to be marketed to the masses, they should at least have the defaults a little more secure.
Also, cookies are one part of the story. What is a user going to do against the MS vulnerabilities discovered every other week? This is the other part of the problem. |
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