firefox insecurity?

[Bart Garst]

der.hans wrote:
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> 
> A quick question for those who use m$ desktops but don't use eXploder and
> LookOut: do you still have to run anti-spyware and anti-virus stuff all
> the time? If you do run them, do you constantly find stuff that needs to
> be removed?
> 

I use Mozilla on my WinXP machine. I run adaware every month or so. It 
always catches something, cookies mostly. I then block cookies from 
those sites (using mozilla's cookie manager). The number of items 
adaware finds gets smaller, and smaller...

As for virus scanning, I update frequently, run constantly in the 
background (checking every file that gets accessed), full system scan 
every week. The only virus's I've ever caught came in as e-mail 
attachments. Never once been infected (knock-on-wood).

Incedentally, I use Norton Antivirus (Symantec product).

I also got a spam e-mail once that was advertising Norton's Spam 
blocking stuff. Talk about mixed messages...

Bart