firefox insecurity?

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 14:15 -0700, Bart Garst wrote:
> der.hans wrote:
> ...snip...
> > 
> > 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...
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of course had you clicked that link about Norton's Spam blocking stuff,
it would have taken your credit card info   ;-)

www.clamwin.org

bye bye Norton...

Craig


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