Browser Wars, take two

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

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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

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New Windows Bugs "Critical", Lack Patches

 

 Wireless Question (Vanity)

 

 High-tech phones bring virus potent - Cell phone viruses only seen in labs so far

 

 Need help - high speed internet questions

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Unless you are running a proxy or connect via a proxy only direct connection to the internet is all you need. You don't even need networking installed to connect. See here for reference to the connection settings. If you have a software firewall make sure it isn't blocking Firefox. In general if you can connect with any other program like IE or a auto-update in an antivirus you should be able to connect with FF. Even at work where we have a corporate firewall direct connection puts FF on the internet.

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 Duck, Microsoft: Firefox Is Coming To Retail Stores (Linux offering OpenOffice & Firefox together)

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  Windows Media Player Vulnerability Info (MUST READ!!!)

 

 

 Windows XP users Phelled by new Trojan [Symantec bulletin, SP2 no protection, will see 2 IE popups]

 

 Terminating Spyware With Extreme Prejudice~"It's like a baptism for your computer," Mr. Wagner said

 

  Cyber crime booms in 2004 - 100,000+ ComputerViruses in 2004

 

  New Santy.e worm to affect many more sites

 

  [New] Google worm targets AOL, Yahoo

 

  Internet Use Said to Cut Into TV Viewing and Socializing -- I now communicate with family and friends more than ever via emails and internet postings and articles. In addition, at home I could only annoy my family. Now thanks to modern technology, I can annoy them along with millions of liberals. The internet is a freakin' miracle. They're complaining about the lack of television viewing because they can no longer inundate me with liberal propaganda. Every  lie they tell gets challenged and blown out of the water with facts now.

 

 U.S. Spews More Spam Than Any Other Country

 Lowbridge Scambaiting The 419 Email Scammers (FRANKLIN DUBE)

 

 Confessions of a a tech-aholic - (Funny, but real!)

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IE Plagued by 'Extremely Critical' Flaws

 

 Exploit code attacks unpatched IE bug ( Even the new SP2-Service Pack 2-is vulnerable ) -- I can't imagine why anyone would. It's like knowingly choosing to park a car in a high crime area and leaving your doors unlocked.
Most of them use it because they've not been made aware of the threat/danger MSIE poses. There are a number of Freepers who had never heard of Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera until they saw them mentioned in a thread. I can't blame people who aren't always able (or even savvy enough) to keep on the the latest tech news.

 

 Spammers' New Tactic Upends DNS

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 Experts warn of trick to bypass IE download warnings

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Customizing Firefox

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Mac OS X security myth exposed

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Toolbar community reports Internet Explorer address bar spoofing vulnerabilities actively exploited

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 Firefox Nearing 20 Million Downloads; 18 Million and growing regardless of recent security issues.

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Linux fights off hackers

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  Microsoft Responds To IE Security Concerns

 

  Free Dominion has been hacked - assistance requested

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Virus hooks onto CNN headlines

 

 Accused Spammer Sues Individual Who Reported It

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 The Worm in CNN's Headlines: Trojan keylogger awaits news junkies

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 My Computer Has a Virus---Turns off by itself! (Can someone help)

 

 FireFox continues gains against IE

 

Goto SpreadFirefox.com for more. :-)

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Browser Info -Mozilla Firefox not compatible with Yahoo Game Channel

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Teen Is Co-Creator of Firefox Browser

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Fixing Firefox's memory leak

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 20,000,000 Mozilla Firefox downloads !!!

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  EXPLORER STUMBLES AS GOOGLE EYES BROWSER MARKET

 

 Security Update 2005-001 for Mac OS X

 

  FireFox lead programmer joins Google

 

 

 HELP!

Help here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327831/posts?page=60#60

 

 Expert: Flaw still dogs Windows patch

 

 Business Must Be Cautious With Firefox