FYI- just switched from IE to Mozilla Firefox.. IMHO much faster and a couple of cool options IE doesnt offer.. and its free.. Recommended by my IT people at work and several other users..

Any comments from you computer savey BOTL's

cayman

It's fantastic. A couple of extensions I've added in and it's the perfect internet browser! I've switched the entire company over to firefox.

^

no other comments?

cayman2b

Now do a scan for SPYWARE. Bet you've got at least 30 objects.

I've never liked microshaft internet exploder- too slow.

I've always used various versions of netscape/mozilla.

As a Mac user, I use Camino, mozilla's OSX only browser.

Mozilla is definately the way to go. Enjoy Firefox!

[ Author: herfsnipe Date: 02/05/2005 10:52 PM

Now do a scan for SPYWARE. Bet you've got at least 30 objects. ]

Sounds like you've been adequately brain washed by Microsoft... Hope your a share holder and you pay for all the software on your computer.

I'm not a computer "geek" but my system works..

- Cisco firewall router

- Norton anti viris

- Spybot

- Ad-Aware

cayman

Just downloaded Mozilla.

Ran Adaware and Spybot as well as having a wireless firewall, a SBC's firewall, spyware guard and spyware blaster...

Nothing.

Even with all of the blocking software I have, Spybot and Adaware usually still find somthing.

please anyone.

i have always used msn as my home page and internet explorer as my browser. i assume that means that is how i connect to the internet.

i would like to learn what a Mozilla Firefox is and where to get it and why it is better or different then what i have been using.

either here or RICKAMAVEN

@HOTMAIL.COM

Rick...

Your home page is nothing more or less than the first page that opens up when your browser launches. You can set it to any page you want; from MSN to CNN to FOX News (or maybe not Fox News for you... perhaps something more left-leaning... oops! did I just let a barb out?)J/K... You can even set Cbid as your home page if that turns your crank...so to speak.

Your browser is the program you use to connect with and display pages on websites you visit. If you run a version of Windows, then Internet Explorer is your default browser "out of the box".

Mozilla is the name for the current incarnation of the Netscape Navigator browser that was popular a number of years ago. It was and is developed by a user group whose home on the web is www.mozilla.org you can go there and download several versions of the browser, including Firefox, which is the latest and greatest (supposedly) from the Mozilla folks. There are also "plug-ins" you can download and install to add a large number of custom features to your surfing experience. I use the Mozilla suite myself. I downloaded Firefox and ran it for a while, but for a number of personal-preference-type reasons, went back to using Mozilla, which is the older version. I do, however, use Thunderbird, the stand-alone email client software from Mozilla. All are free downloads, the install is simple and painless, and Mozilla seems to run and load pages much faster for me (I use a satellite-based internet connection, Starband) than IE. Many informed opinions say that Mozilla is a safer browser to use, as most hackers and virus perpetrators write their poison for the IE browser and email client, as there are more computers out there using it than any other and they want maximum damage effect, so they target the most popular browser. I don't know how true that may be; I am not a silicon-based life form. My world outside the computer is higher priority for me and I have not taken the time to become a techno-geek.

You can certainly get the Mozilla browser and try it, see if you like it... if not you can uninstall it and go back to IE if you like, since you don't uninstall IE in order to run Mozilla.

Good luck!

badger

thanks. i have downloaded and installed firefox already and already i like it.

question. do i still need my firewall zone alarm.

ive been using firefox for a few months...i love it! i would like to learn more about the firewalls....with them can i still download items?

TopJimmy-

Like I said before, I'm not a computer tech.. but I have been told by many pro's if you really "need" to protect

your PC from the internet get a firewall router.. this is

an actual hardware router (box) that will make your PC a ghost to internet hackers.. little pricey, bout $70+ bucks but well worth it IMHO.. also run the software I recommended.. no problems here..

cayman

For those with DSL, most of the DSL modems (or the router) they provide have the firewall built-in.

I also have Nortan's firewall software installed ... and have never had a problem in all the years I've had it.

are those the same types of routers that are used if im running multiple PCs in my home

Firefox is great. Also running: Zone Alarm, Norton Anti-virus, Ad-aware, and Spy-bot.

{{ Author: herfsnipe Date: 02/05/2005 10:52 PM

Now do a scan for SPYWARE. Bet you've got at least 30 objects. ]

Sounds like you've been adequately brain washed by Microsoft... Hope your a share holder and you pay for all the software on your computer. }}

You solicited an opinion. I harbor no ill will toward 3rd party browsers. I simply stated that you should scan for spyware. Perhaps I should have been more diplomatic.

These non-mainstream companies need support from outside sources for revenues. They can't offer free downloads and hope to survive. This is why there's doubleclick and fastclick, and other data mining profilers out there that like to hide out in downloaded

software un-beknownst to the recipient. I've dealt with my share. I do pay for my software. ALL OF IT. I'm old enough and have the cash to do it. Whatever free stuff I have is either support or just like millions of other users, downloaded, tried and flushed. MS IE will be forever copied, but never duplicated. Security holes included. That's why they have Tech support, which is free. By the way, MS offers free spyware blocking software...but I'll assume you're not interested. Or as you put it...brainwashed.

Firefox contains no spyware/adware. Ignore the baseless innuendo of the uneducated who fear change & the unknown, and lash out at that which they do not understand.

I have never used the zone alarm, I just enabled the XP firewall and it seems to work just fine. WRT spyware, I uninstalled Ad-Aware about a month ago while troubleshooting a problem, and forgot to reinstall it until today, when I read the comments on the=is thread re spyware. I reinstalled and ran Ad-Aware, and found 28 items that needed to be removed. When I was using IE as my browser I typically found at least that many every two or three days. Seems to me the proof;s in the puddin', as they say. I'm stickin' with Mozilla.

badger

Spy Sweeper... (pay for it people)

Hardware/firewall router (again, pay for it)

Lesson: you are only as safe as the programs you pay for.

Lots of intelligent a$$holes are out to f**k your computer because they can.

Lots of OTHER intelligent a$$holes can protect you from them for a fee.

PAY IT.