This week, I received a query from a reader about a warning message he was receiving:
Hi Terry , I was wondering if perhaps you can help me , I have this very annoying adware that occurs EVERYTIME at startup …. not-a-virus:Adware.Win32.BHO.cr Now althugh this doesn’t appeato be causing any problem on my PC and I [...]
To install, the IE team recommends temporarily disabling your anti-spyware, anti-adware and anti-virus applications.
One of my subscribers asked “My question is how do I do this ?”
Read more in Turning off Antivirus, etc. for IE7 Installation
Spyware is software that enables a third-party to track where you go on the Internet. Usually this does not involves specific tracking cookies and companies that specialize in tracking your visits to advertiser sites.
Although this capability has given cookies a bad name, cookies are not inherently evil. They are used for many good purposes such [...]
Nice little blog entry by a Firefox “newbie” who switched from IE to Firefox for security reasons — after problems with I.E.
Why I Love Firefox — You know, I use Firefox, too. For pretty much the same reasons, too, but Ive been using it since version 0.7.
Joris Evers of Tech Republic reports, has a good report on IE7’s first day in his article Minor issues surface after IE 7 launch.
Events for the initial day of IE7 included:
a reported security flaw (Microsoft said — that’s ok, it an Outlook Express bug that we might fix later, not an IE7 bug).web sites that [...]