Browser Wars, take two

various FR links | 12-22-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[backhoe]

 

FireFox Burns Internet Explorer’s Market Share

 An extended explanation on why Internet Explorer is insecure

 

  How Spyware Took The Next-Gen Threat Crown (On The Internet's No #1 Threat Today MUST READ!!!) -- My own opinion is that anything that takes over your private computer without your informed consent should be illegal and that anyone distributing such programs and those paying to have it distributed (the engine that drives this train) should be held criminally responsible. A politician who would undertake such legislation would have an instantaneous, nation-wide following... a political hero (are you listening out there?)

 

 Browser Wars -- Broadband Firefox users should try ForecastFox 0.5.8. It will put the Weather Channel forecast of your choice in the taskbar. Completely customizeable (I selected the three-day, day-and-night forecast for my ZIP) and totally cool.

 

 Safe Personal Computing

 

  New IE hole could helpperfect phishing scams [GET FIREFOX]

 

 The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating)

 

 Firefox is hot; Thunderbird's not — for good reason -- Since Version 1.0 of Firefox went public about a month ago, about 10 million Internet Explorer users have seen the white-hot light and switched...

 

 

 Massive IE phishing exploit discovered 

Now that you have changed to Firefox, go to this thread to help you out.... if you are on a Broadband Internet connection.

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

 

 Safe Personal Computing

 

 Spyware Is the Scourge of Microsoft Windows Users

 

 New search engines let you find Web videos

 

 Five important fixes in MS December patch batch

 

 

Zafi Worm Hides Behind Christmas Cheer (Don't Click!)

 

 Top 10 "Most Unwanted" Spyware Named -- Router with firewall is a must these-days (extra firewall layer, and use multiple comps...)

Free Help here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1301552/posts?page=99#99

 Currently I'm running pretty safely  with Adaware, Spybot, Firefox, AVG, Sun Java (people forget this upgrade) Zone Alarm and a router. And I deactivated ActiveX for all but Windows update.

 

 Two Million Scans Uncover 55 Million Instances of Spyware,

 

 

 Google Worm Shows Bad Guys Want Efficiency, Too

 

 Google desktop search flawed

 

  Anti Spywear

 

 Apple's iPod Leads the Way in the Fledgling Digital Music World -- I've had an iPod since early September and I must honestly say that it is life-altering. My massive 1000+ CD collection is now boxed up in the attic, serving as backup only.

 

 Samsung Claims Largest Plasma Display [102 inches diagonally] -- Sony is the canary in the mine here. When they
stop selling CRTs, you'll know cross-over is at hand. Sony
has already stopped selling all CRT computer monitors
except for one high-end color-reference 21-inch.

 

  Americans Lured to Look at Digital Cameras

 

 It's aimed more at the business organization than the individual user, but IBM published a very nice Linux Client Migration Cookbook.

Some recommend Xandros 3.0. Windows like and the easiest Debian Linux distro for newbies to install and maintain. Even all the names have been changed to make getting around the operating system as painless and familiar as possible. In addition, with the Deluxe Version, you can run Windows applications with Crossover Office. http://www.xandros.com

 

 Need a method/utility to access backup FAT32 - VANITY

[backhoe]

 Updating my address book - Virus alert

[backhoe]

 

Suit may revise chapter on tech history: Origins of MS-DOS

 

 Shopping for an inexpensive PC? Make it a Mac Mini. You won't regret it.

 

[whitelighthouse]

I met Fr. Tetherow through a then seminarian Wilfredo Comellas who is now a diocesan priest after the order he was studying at Newman House in Mt. Pocono was supressed by Bishop Timlin. Seminarian Comellas was stationed at St. Ann's until he became an ordained priest. He introduced Fr. Kloton and I and the rest of the staff to Fr. Tetherow. I brought a homeless boy to Fr. Tetherow with Comellas. A former Director of Music found and showed me homosexual porn on Fr. Kloton's computer way before Fr. Gabriel Tetherow came to St. Ann's. I reported it to Fr. Kloton and he told me that some of his biker friends sent it to him as a joke. He told the Director of Music that another priest had put it there. There was no visiting priest at St. Ann's at that time. I reported him to Bishop Timlin who said he would investigate Fr. Kloton. I resigned my position a couple of years ago and no investigation of Fr. Kloton was ever completed to my knowledge. Then Fr. Tetherow confesses to putting porn there. Is he covering up for Fr. Kloton or are they both in on it together? I have since reported it to the police and Bishop Martino who said he is investigating Fr. Kloton. Fr. Kloton is still actively the pastor of St. Ann's so I don't know what is going on. As for Fr. Tetherow, Fr. Comellas told me that he is ONLY allowed to celebrate the Tridentine Latin mass. Hope this clarifies some things.

Lu

[backhoe]

 'Good Guys' Show Just How Easy It Is To Steal ID (Hacking With Google)

[TheForceOfOne]

Please add me to the ping list if one exists, thank you!

[TheForceOfOne]

I started with MS-DOS 5.0, brings back memories of the green screen, 10 meg hard drive, and the 5.25 disks that I had to keep blowing on to get them to work. The good old days.

[backhoe]

Please add me to the ping list if one exists...

I would if I kept any- used to, but got tired of those "Take Me Off Yer %^&*#$! Ping List!" emails.

But thanks for looking-- this is a catch-all for browsers, systems, viruses, and general computer tech stuff.

[backhoe]

I started with MS-DOS 5.0, brings back memories of the green screen, 10 meg hard drive, and the 5.25 disks that I had to keep blowing on to get them to work. The good old days.

The first Trash-80 I had had 64K ram ( that was the deluxe model, standard was 16K ) and loaded software from a cassette tape deck. Amazingly, it had a jack-connected 300 baud modem instead of the "drop the handset in a cradle" common then. I actually took some McGraw-Hill correspondence courses in FORTRAN and COBOL back in my business days, but never used them in practice.

Now, my wife's little Dell Axim pocket pc has more horspower under the hood, and does more things, easier, than the loast DOS machine I built in 1998, which had ( I think! Too many PC's ago to be sure ) a 130mhtz 486, a couple of megs of ram, a 3.5gig HD, and DOS 6.22... I believe it also had a USR Sportster modem, 28 or 33K-- can't remember which.

[TheForceOfOne]

Good morning FRiend!
That's okay, but do you know the most popular "Keyword" these threads follow?

[backhoe]

Good morning FRiend! That's okay, but do you know the most popular "Keyword" these threads follow?

These are what's listed:

KEYWORDS: BROWSERS; COMPUTERS; FIREFOX; INTERNETEXPLORER; MICROSOFT; SECURITY; WINDOWS;

-but I'm not sure there's an easy way to see how many hits have been counted on them.

[TheForceOfOne]

The first computer I saw was a Commodore 64 my buddy brought over to my house, I thought is was a game system, at that time we use to play Intellivision and ColecoVision games on the TV. The first work computer I used was made by Honeywell and staring at the green screen use to make my eyes quiver. You could give it a command and go get a cup of coffee while you waited for it to complete the task. The heat that pumped out the side of the monitor which was attached to a large desk with the guts meshed into it, was so hot it we would shut it down twice a day to stop sweating. It took a pallet jack to pull them out of our department. Crap the old lady says its time to go shopping, be back later.

[TheForceOfOne]

thanks

[backhoe]

Crap, the old lady says its time to go shopping, be back later...

You'll notice my remarks in #1:

The wife-unit is trying to shoo me out the door- back later... 1 posted on 12/22/2004 4:06:17 PM EST by backhoe

Us Men may think we're Lords of All We Survey-- but our wives know better. And don't hesitate to remind us...

The first microcomputer I can recall seeing a picture of in Byte magazine was an Altair ( or something that began with an "A" ) that you programmed in binary by flipping toggle switches on the front panel... in the days of the 8088 chip, the Zilog Z-80, and the Motorola 68000. Jeez, that stuff was primitive.

[backhoe]

New IM Worms Hit MSN Messenger

[backhoe]

DNS cache poisoning bugs hits Symantec shops

[backhoe]

 

 Denial-of-service glitch could threaten Windows

[backhoe]

Gigs & Bytes:Hollywood Hacking

[backhoe]

A Parent's Primer To Computer Slang

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

anyone know if there is there a computer/virus related ping list?

[backhoe]

anyone know if there is there a computer/virus related ping list?

( whacking head to jar brain into gear... )
Actually, I can't recall any, offhand...try this:

The list of ping lists