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Post by **The Beatles** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:50 am

Spyware Barely Touches Firefox

It's safer to use Firefox, apparently -- of course, I might be biased toward whoever wrote the article, as they taught my Hardware and Operating Systems course, which was excellent.

Fresh Water Fighters · Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:43 am

Na your not biased because that artical is right Spyware mostly can't get Firefox.
Hey Slasher that's why your computer has so many problems!
You need to get Firefox!!

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:09 pm

My computer has problems because of viruses i know that are there... I use these on people who annoy me but sometimes I run them by accident

... I run Windows XP Pro with no protection only my router firewall and when something goes wrong, just format... Cause I cant be arsed with using system resources on an anti virus which detects the viruses I need

*laughs*... anyway IE7 is alot more secure so

if ya want a screenie let me know

Fresh Water Fighters · Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:12 pm

You will never change will you.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:02 pm

hehe no way

Post by **The Beatles** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:44 am

Hehe

IE7 ain't out yet, but they are already sending out patches for vulnerabilities.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:05 am

Well I have it and its good if you knwo what you're doing. If you're gonna get spyware etc through IE then your an idiot computer user *laughs*

Post by **The Beatles** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:09 am

Look at the title of the topic, or read the article -- one in 20-25 pages they looked at installed spyware... you can probably even get it through banner ads and the like.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:16 am

Very, very true... However IE users should have protection

Fresh Water Fighters · Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:00 am

Firefox user have faster speed because they don't have to hav sooo much protection.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:07 am

Proven fact according to a topic on CWH Networks, FireFox and IE are both the same speed and use the same amount of memory on average

Post by **The Beatles** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:20 pm

FF probably uses more memory, but is faster.

Post by **windhound** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:32 pm

^^ so if FF and IE use about the same amount of resources for the same speed, yet one is historically vulnerable to attack, why use it?

the new IE 7 is ugly. I'm sure its skinnable, but default is

and yep. the day it was released for beta somone said they'd found a vulnerablility.. which, by ms track record, may not be fixxed by official release..

*shrug*
I dont really notice that much of a speed difference when loading a site once, but when loading a site like mine that has the same basic layout for all pages firefox is /much/ faster.. instead of reloading everything it seems to just load the things that change

oh. and the IE png thing is annoying as heck. gifs are alright, but I'd rather use pngs.. all other browsers display them fine, IE screws the transparency

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:32 am

In IE7 BETA 2 the PNG thingy is fixed

Post by **The Beatles** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:16 am

Can you say "Finally"? Only a few years behind the mainstream there.

Oh, and CSS2 support isn't quite there yet either.

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