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To: Redcloak

Firefox is terrific. I just ran my virus scanner a few minutes ago and it picked up 2 new exploits I received from Microsoft IE security holes. I only run IE when a page won't load correctly in Firefox (which is rare) and even on though I seldom use it I still get a security breach.

I may just delete IE entirely and get it over with. Microsoft better wake up because Firefox is a real competitor and it's spreading fast.


12 posted on 12/20/2004 10:53:38 PM PST by Reagan is King (The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: Reagan is King

It is extremely difficult to remove Microsoft IE. Do you know that you can paste a web address into a file explorer in windows, hit 'Go' and pull that web page up in the file explorer window?

They're the same app.

The only way I can think of defeating IE is to deny it access to winsock, but I have no idea how this would be done.


13 posted on 12/20/2004 10:56:46 PM PST by Petronski (A suitable case for treatment.)
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