[backhoe]

Is it really that hard for someone to develope a program that would not let ANY program ever get downloaded without a permission alert? Especially when your surfing the net?

The great problem is all the holes in the OS and browser that permit "seamless" transitions in exchanging data- my guess would be that what you suggest could be done, but at the expense of slowing everything to a crawl.

My workaround was to switch to Firefox, but you can't get rid of IE- it's hooked into the OS, dang it.

[sd-joe]

Just switched to Firefox. It is great.