[sirchtruth]

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?

[sirchtruth]

For goodness sake, I've got NAV 2004 with all the updates and things still get thru...it friggin amazing!

[Izzy Dunne]

Is it really that hard for someone to develope a program that would not let ANY program ever get downloaded without a permission alert?

It's been there for years, pal. It's called Safari.

[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.

[Eagle9]

I think the worm and trojan horse being downloaded from the remaining infected web sites are downloaded from that web site's server at the same time you download the web site content that you'd see on your monitor.

[DarthFuzball]

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?

Because of the way that windows is designed, yes.

Windows base design still assumes that any executables or script code was placed there by the user.

This is due to the original design as a single user stand alone system. This design flaw still permeates the entire windows architecture.

[N3WBI3]

FireFox