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STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER (was: Question about what parts to use)

Subject: STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER was: Question about what parts to use
From: "JeffM"
Date: 1 May 2006 22:53:57 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.basics
>>>http://img278.imageshack.us/my.php?image=circuit3qt.jpg
>>> Andrew410
>
>DON'T CLICK ON IT!
>I got[...]a pop-behind window
> mc
:
:Which is why I do my browsing with ANYTHING but IE
: Rich Webb

After CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team)
--the computer security experts at the Department of Homeland
Security--
said in April of 2004 **STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER**
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:CumkrxWv1E4J:www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/323070+domain-zone-security-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*+*-a-different-*-browser+04-*-2004+the-IE+significant-vulnerabilities+zzz+reduce-exposure

and said it AGAIN in June of 2004 [1]
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:_E2LJe_wEXMJ:www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878+domain-zone-security-model-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-local-file-system-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-DHTML-*-document-object-model-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-HTML-Help-system-MIME-*-determination-the-*-*-*-*-GUI-*-and-ActiveX+*-a-different-*-browser+*-*-09-2004+the-IE+significant-vulnerabilities+zzz+reduce-exposure
I can't believe that anyone still uses Internet Explorer
--especially when Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, and Opera
are all FREE and are MORE SECURE
(e.g., less likely to assist in their own hijacking).

Firefox is Mozilla's browser-only offering.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/#download

The Mozilla Seamonkey suite
also includes an email client / newsreader as well as an HTML editor.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Opera become freeware in September 2005
(no on-screen ad frame any more).
http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=windows

Older (slimmer) copies of the adware-supported versions
are available here: http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=opera
(I generally use Mozilla;
when I need an alternate browser, I use Opera.)

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