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Salamander has a program that flags the trackers, beacons, adware, and malware from the sites she visits, and her software did show “25 beacons, trackers, and adware” at NorCal.

I appreciate the heads up about the site, but unless you are going to give up surfing the net, you will be at risk from such things.

But then please point me to a Newspaper website that does not have such added extras that we need to be prepared for. Which we should all have spy ware and virus software that basically reduces all those nuisance and potentially crippling bugs powerless.

I suggest that if adaware, beacons,and malware worry you that much, then it's time to upgrade your virus protectors, or quit reading any of a thousand articles posted to FR everyday.

As I said, point to me one Newspaper that has linked stories to FR that does not have such potentially hazardous encrypted software? Believe me, if you read anything from the major MSM newspapers, they ALL HAVE that much and more.

Sorry to be such a party pooper as to your worry, but I have never ever recieved and adaware, or any other mendacious virus of any sort from anywhere on the WEB. That is because I use protection. It is our friend, and it works every time it's tried. But unlike sex, I will use protection for the web, rather than practice abstinence.

I have web protection too, but it doesn’t report on every site as Salamander’s does. I had it for a while, but it takes a lot of time to deal with each new site, and as you say, there are a lot of new sites when one is following links here.

OV, I’m glad to hear that you’re feeling better and look forward to your pings. I don’t always reply but usually take a gander. God bless you.

A little touchy, aren’t you?

I was not condemening you and I have the best anti-everything software available.

I may not “get” anything while surfing but it does politely let me know what I *could* have gotten.

Stop being so defensive.

I have no idea where that video came from but it could have tons of stuff embedded in it that you were not aware of.

If your blog is embedded with all that stuff by your own choice, I have the right to thwart it being deposited on my computers and the duty to alert others who may not be running as tight a ship as I am.

Having said that, I do hope and pray that your health problems get resolved.