Kayode James wrote:
> No...never in the history of me using IE did a toolbar come up without me
> putting it there.And I never put one there. That's probably because I know
> better than to d/load shit though. My mother has one up that literally makes
> shopping links out every other word in evey single page (including e-mail)
> that she surfs.
>
> I run Spybot every now and then...all it ever turns up is cookies. Remember
> when I ran it to get those typed urls out of the browser a few days ago?
> That was the first time I'd run it in months. Back in the normal IE days
> though, it turned up a lot of stuff the first time I ran it. Since I got
> MyIE2...no worries.
>
> I got two viruses on my machine since the year began, and both of them had
> to do with me d/loading keygens from Kazaa. I update my antivirus regularly.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tech@digicon.co.tt [mailto:owner-tech@digicon.co.tt]On
> Behalf Of Richard Jobity
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 7:00 PM
> To: tech@gatt.co.tt
> Subject: Re: {GATT-Tech} Lockergnome article : "Why You Should Dump
> Internet Explorer" (was : Last night I learned how to...)
>
>
> Kayode James wrote:
>
>
>>I'm assuming that MyIE2 falls into the IE category.
>>
>>If it does, how come I never get any of these issues that are in that
>>article?
>>
>>And I surf around a lot.
>
>
> Do you run Spybot Search and Destroy regularly?
> AdAware 6?
>
> Regularly update your virus scanner?
>
> Have toolbars that turn up without you recollecting installing them?
OK. Have you UPDATED your signatures to Spybot Search and Destroy,
AdAware and your virus scanner? Running the most recent version of
Spybot (the one with the Spybot SD that sits in your system tray) and
Adaware?
Checked to see if a newer version of your firewall is available?
I hit some pretty weird sites myself, and I've actually had a unsigned
Mozilla .xpi try to install itself on my system in an effort to
indirectly pwn IE.
Running Spywareblaster?
I tend to get a whole set of tracking cookies on my system at best.
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