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To: Bush2000
Hilarious.

Internet Exploder just blows - it's just a virus-transportation system, like that piece of crap Outlook.

I use Firefox, of course, like most intelligent folks, but anything is better than IE. Did I mention that IE blows?

5 posted on 08/26/2005 6:47:55 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Hank Rearden
So, what do you think of IE? ;o)

He asks as he posts from tab #2 of 4 currently open in his Firefox browser.....

8 posted on 08/26/2005 6:52:05 PM PDT by SW6906
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To: Hank Rearden

IE blows, Hank.

lol


9 posted on 08/26/2005 6:52:44 PM PDT by Connie Cardullo
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To: Hank Rearden

[NCLUG] virus de-alert

FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS
UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK

Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn't Like

Atlanta, Ga. (SatireWire.com) - Scientists at the Centers for Disease
Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that
foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email
application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed
to propagate a major virus.

"Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through
Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected,"
said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.

The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will
save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we
have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were
spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture
Minister. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere."

However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has
recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook,
which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You,"
"Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few.

Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden
University: "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that
as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies in
the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a
blind drunk sparrow."

Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting
that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually
pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch
if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth.

Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but
Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more
humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter ask
if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told
him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?"

Copyright ) 2001, SatireWire.


43 posted on 08/26/2005 8:02:11 PM PDT by sourcery ("Compelling State Interest" is the refuge of judicial activist traitors against the Constitution)
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69 posted on 08/26/2005 8:39:48 PM PDT by Aetius
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To: Hank Rearden

IE blows and swallows. I use Firefox and I absolutely love it.


122 posted on 08/26/2005 9:38:57 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Hank Rearden

Tell me of a good alternative to outlook......I use it for lots of stuff.


183 posted on 08/26/2005 11:12:40 PM PDT by Loud Mime (War is Mankind's way of ridding the world of the tyranny caused by liberalism)
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To: Hank Rearden

"Did I mention that IE blows?"

I strongly disagree. IE sucks!


233 posted on 08/27/2005 7:26:38 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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