Posted on 12/17/2004 6:37:05 AM PST by zeugma
Thanks for this post.
Thank you for this article. I saved it to my favorites so I can refer to it again. It is clear I just have to take some classes to have a clue anymore. I've had my home computer since last June and frankly, I'm in the dark about most of this article. How does the common schmuck out there cope with all this? I bought this computer to 1. enjoy email 2. visit all kinds of websites mainly about books, plants, animals, the Bible, geography, food 3. pay bills via computer. I can be on line for hours at a time. I'm completely screwed. It's almost like people should have to pass a written test and get a license to have a computer for their own protection.
As others have stated, you use proxies.
Personally, I use an Ad blocker called "Admuncher" www.admuncher.com.
It blocks everything, all ads, popups(gets them before firefox does), malicious scripts, you name it. It also has a neat feature called IP scramble. It collects lists of proxies and routes your requests through them randomly. It slows down surfing(proxies generally do unless you pay for the service), so I don't use it all the time just when I'm in the seedier side of the net(sometimes hackers have useful tools). It's got a 30 day free trial and it's layer 3. That means you don't have to configure proxy settings in your browser. It's a nifty program I stumbled across some time ago. Well worth the $30 dollar one time fee. Give the free trial a shot. When it complains in a month, uninstall. It's very clean.
"Never type a password you care about, such as for a bank account, into a non-SSL encrypted page."
Only recently, Amazon discontinued that bit of stupidity -- the secure page didn't load until one entered the password, forcing customers to click the button with the password field blank, THEN enter the password in the secure page that loaded.
Probably the tech people were too busy screwing with the search engine algorithms to exclude conservative book titles.
Like arasina said, I don't think so, but where WP formats legal docs natively, with Word you have to kludge it...
thanks .....works GREAT!!!
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