Evil Java Scripts / Pop Up Installs

[Fyron]

Use Proxomitron and Mozilla Firefox (don't listen to David about his "feel" of Firefox, he is just silly ) in tandem and your browsing will be very safe.

Get Ad-Aware (there is a free Version that scans only, doesn't offer constant protection) and Spybot Search and Destroy to remove crap from your system. They each catch things that the other misses. Sbybot has a handy immunize feature that is supposed to help prevent some things from getting installed in the first place.

[Baron Munchausen]

Why send him to the German site for AdAware? They have a US site, they are a US company!

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Make sure to get the latest reflist, too, so you can remove the latest spyware. The program has an update function built-in.

Other than that, I can agree with everything Fyron said. I personally prefer the full Mozilla suite, though. There's supposed to be an update of Mozilla/Firefox released very soon. Within the next few days. There is a security problem in the SSL code dating back to Netscape 4.7 that urgently needs to be fixed. So keep checking for the update even if you get Mozilla/Firefox now.

Edit:

In addition to Proxomitron, you might want to get the 'JD5000 Filters' which are much more comprehensive than the default Proxomitron filters.

http://www.jd5000.net/index.php

[ August 02, 2004, 20:11: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Aiken]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Why send him to the German site for AdAware? They have a US site, they are a US company!

Lavasoft Inc.
.....Established in Germany in the mid 1990's
.....Incorporated in July 2002
.....Headquartered in Sweden
http://www.lavasoft.de/about/

Anyway, all these hax0rz's tricks are targeted against IE vulnerabilities, so the major advice is "do not use Internet Explorer". This will solve 80% of problems.

[ August 02, 2004, 21:34: Message edited by: aiken ]

[David E. Gervais]

Ahem! I,.. 'AM' Silly. Most people have a funny-bone, I have a silly-bone.

Cheers!

P.S. BTW it IS just my silly opinion that Firefox has little to offer over Mozilla. (feel free to list the multitude of features that I wouldn't use anyway.) But in my defense, if the 'added features' are not something I need or would use then Firefox is a useless upgrade. Besides Mozilla is working fantastic. why would I want to change or upgrade something that is not broken or otherwise 1000% better than IE?

Nuf said,

[Katchoo]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
P.S. BTW it IS just my silly opinion that Firefox has little to offer over Mozilla. (feel free to list the multitude of features that I wouldn't use anyway.) But in my defense, if the 'added features' are not something I need or would use then Firefox is a useless upgrade. Besides Mozilla is working fantastic. why would I want to change or upgrade something that is not broken or otherwise 1000% better than IE?

Nuf said,

The only difference I've noted between Firefox and the fuller Mozilla suite is that the Mozilla suite doesn't allow the use of the middle mouse button (ie: click down on the mouse wheel), which is usually good for rapidly scrolling up and down a screen. Maybe it's just with my mouse, but for some reason Mozilla won't allow it, but Firefox does. Go figure.

[Baron Munchausen]

The two browsers in in fact different programs. It's just the 'Gecko' HTML engine that is shared between them. So, it's not surprising that there are features they don't have in common.

[Baron Munchausen]

It's here! Mozilla 1.7.2 has been posted on the main Mozilla.org site! Whether you can get it now or have to wait for the downloading frenzy to subside in a few days remains to be seen.

Edit:

I'm using it now. Got both the Mozilla 1.7.2 and the Sun Java 1.4.2_05 updates installed. 50+ megabytes of stuff. Time for a defrag.

[ August 04, 2004, 18:52: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]