Author: Pete Galati
Date: 07:28:33 02/13/01
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On February 13, 2001 at 03:45:13, David Rasmussen wrote: >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. True, they're going down hill. And their latest browser, I got reports that it was horible bloatware, so before I even installed the ethernet card on this computer, I went to the Netscape Archives and got an old release, and brought it to this computer on several floppys in a disc spanning zip file. But yesterday, I was in a newsgroup in the middle of a rather long reply, and I was researching a date over in the browser side of things, and the damn website crashed Netscape, so all the work I put into composing the reply went right out the window. Aggrivating. Pete
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