Firefox gives a better browsing experience and is less vulnerable.
I also use Spybot Search and Destroy both at home and on our office computers - about 30 of them. It has some very good advanced features such as locking the hosts file and a very nice interface to examine and manipulate startup settings - takes a while to get familar with everything, but it's worth it. Having said that, I think there is still room in the marketplace for a commercial anti-spyware product that would be easier for the average user to understand and configure. hmmmm...
Browser Wars, take two various FR links | 12-22-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1306815/posts ...and let your compiler of links drop out of Lurk & Link mode for comment and advice: Ditch IE. Honest to God, almost anything else will give you fewer problems. Try and compare- use IE, then run Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy... then try another browser and repeat. You will be stunned at the garbage IE attracts. Keep your OS updated & patched. Run a hardware firewall-- with today's LAN's, it's easy. You need a hardware firewall. |