Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 00:45:13 02/13/01
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On February 13, 2001 at 00:18:37, Pete Galati wrote: >On February 12, 2001 at 22:05:33, Christophe Theron wrote: > >> >>This is already known but worth repeating: >> >>If you discover an executable program that has been introduced without your >>knowledge on your computer: >> >>1. DON'T USE IT. >> >>2. JUST DELETE IT. >> >>That's why I have deleted Internet Explorer and Outlook from my computer. Don't >>wait. Do it right now. >> >> >> Christophe > >Good advise. Outlook Express gives virus spredders all sorts of access to your >computer with their scripts. > >I use Netscape myself, and there seem to be several people intent on getting me >to switch to MS's IE, even people more paranoid about viruses than I am, but I >just don't have time to learn the thing. I don't delete it because sometimes IE >is the only thing that works with some sites, but other than that the thing has >VERY little value. > >Pete I was a netscape man for years. But as it got more and more unstable and filled with non-standard HTML handling, and finally when the worst bloatware of all time, Netscape 6, got shipped, I skipped it for good. I'm using IE on most computers, and Opera on my own PC. Opera is the best I've seen, it just lacks some simple usability features. IE and Opera are both far superior to netscape in performance (Netscape 6 installed on my fresh 450 MHz system with 192 MB RAM takes 32 seconds to start), and also more adherent to the standard according to W3C. Opera is the most conforming browser according to W3C, Netscape is the worst. And all this is in spite of how much I hate microsoft. I was really hoping for netscape to win the browser war, but then their browser started sucking even more than IE. Then I changed.
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