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Old 06-12-2006, 06:14 PM
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I know most of the malwares I get comes through because of the vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, but I just won't use another browser because I'm already used to using IE. I heard Firefox and Opera are very good. Do you use them? And do you really get less or no malwares at all with Firefox?
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Old 06-12-2006, 08:18 PM
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Most people get these malwares because they visit sites they shouldn't go to.
Stay away from porn sites, sites for illegal software downloads, software cracks, etc... and you should be fine! :idea:
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Old 07-08-2006, 08:10 PM
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IE6 is a very vulnerable browser, I would suggest downloading Firefox and using that unitll IE7 comes out which seems to be the most secure browser from the beta tests. You can try it at Microsoft.com but I dont like using beta programs as my default application for web browsing.
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Old 07-09-2006, 05:01 PM
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Firefox is generally exploited less because not as many people have been using it. The most exploits usually get written for the biggest browser, i.e. Internet Explorer. I use IE 99% of the time but when I need to check out a site I'm not sure about I do sometimes load up Firefox.
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Old 07-12-2006, 10:57 PM
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IE6 is a very vulnerable browser, I would suggest downloading Firefox and using that unitll IE7 comes out which seems to be the most secure browser from the beta tests. You can try it at Microsoft.com but I dont like using beta programs as my default application for web browsing.
That's nice. I wonder when IE7 will be released. Soon, I hope. I run both IE6 and Firefox. They look a little different and it needs some getting used to at first. I use Firefox for browsing, but I have my bookmarks with IE so I use it as well to visit bookmarked sites. Do you have a clue how I can copy my bookmarks from IE to Firefox?
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Old 09-01-2006, 12:37 PM
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Firefox is the best for me, ie7 is looks like firefox opera is good but i heard it has security problems..
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Old 09-01-2006, 01:29 PM
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I use Opera. I find it easiest to use and I think it is the fastest too. I do not think it has any security problems.
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Old 12-28-2006, 05:48 AM
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Both, I need to check css errors in internet explorer.
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Old 12-30-2006, 09:03 AM
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Opera is useful if you access WAP sites. IE and Mozilla Firepox are not WAP "compliant" . So if you don't have a mobile phone to access a WAP site you can turn to web using Opera.
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All browsers have malicious codes, but IE has the most only because they've been targetted the longest.

All these users try to exploit IE

thats the reason why.
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