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You are already doing most of what needs to be done to minimize the risks of using IE. The other would be a powerful ad-filter to eliminate popup, popunder, etc. ads that are likely to install crap in your system through IE holes, though I suspect Norton Internet Security does something like that already... An anti-spyware program (Ad-aware and/or Spybot; most others are junk) run once a week or so completes the protection.

Of course, it is still better to go with a secure browser, such as Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox. They are based on the old Netscape (the new Netscape is based on Mozilla...), so adapting to Mozilla should be a snap...

Re: OT HEEEELP MY @#*%& COMPUTER IS *$&%%&
 

Fyron, IE6 SP2 has a popup blocker that is decent enough. It kills most popups that I don't want, and doesn't kill ones that I do want.

Re: OT HEEEELP MY @#*%& COMPUTER IS *$&%%&
 

For XP only... Not only popup ads have malicious code in them. IE is still a very insecure browser, and will probably always be so.

Only over-zealous popup blockers kill popups that you do want. Firefox's blocking extensions only block unsolicited popups as well... Who said anything about popups anyways?

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Re: OT HEEEELP MY @#*%& COMPUTER IS *$&%%&
 

Popups are one small part of that... Any sort of ad can potentially carry nasty crap. Note the etc. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif