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Originally Posted by DruzeTito
STAY AWAY from IE... very very suceptable to malicious software/ads/spyware/popups ... get firefox it rocks !!
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I know this is a VERY OLD thread, but I've been browsing through things I hadn't looked at before and came across this.
ANYWAY, boy do I agree with the above (except that I prefer Mozilla over Firefox). Of course, you can't get rid of Explorer, but as long as you don't use it, you'll save yourself a LOT of headaches.
I occasionally run one of those spyware programs to look for spyware, and only rarely find any. If I run IE, only for a few minutes, I'll almost always end up with spyware showing up on my computers. It's also MUCH worse since I started using XP. Even with IE, when I was still using Win98 or Win2k, I wouldn't attract much spyware, but the combination of XP and IE is just a magnet for that stuff.
I also avoid the Microsoft mail programs, for similar reasons.