Hello,

I am a Firefox user, and a former Netscape user. I only use Internet Exploder (IE) when forced to at gunpoint.

I like Firefox's pop-up blocker, and the speed it renders materials. I am also cross-platform, and have not seen Internet Exploder for Linux yet. Perhaps it is because Linux lacks the code to display a Blue Screen of Death that the Windoze people crave.

I have worked with Opera before, and liked it, but there were pages that did not display properly.

I also enjoy using lynx.... especially when downloading recurring files via scripts.

Christian

There ya go, 42. THAT's the kind of response I was hoping for. Details...

And I agree with you. I don't believe it's the browser's fault that virus's get in; maybe it happens occasionally. I think it´s the fault of email. Is there a list of bad companies or something posted somewhere?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this, but SpywareBlaster will put a list of known bad websites into the Restricted zone of your browser.

Just FYI, here's a list of rogue 'spyware' companies:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

That´s good stuff, dlh, but not what I was referring to in my less than adequate description. I was trying to get at who is responsible for those emails you start getting when you mistakenly clic on something that you shouldn´t have. You don´t ever know exactly where you got them, really.

I don´t have them now but have in the past. And, unfortunately, they know your email address, so it´s next to impossible to get rid of them without changing your email address. If you try to ¨unsubscribe¨ you don´t know if that´s what you are doing or if you are actually adding yourself to yet another mailer. And they keep propogating to other mailers, etc.

Sorry I was vague...

I get reams of spam, that's the problem with having an old account (the address is in so many usenet archives it's impossible to get rid of the crap).

You won't get spam unless you let someone or something know your email address who then sells it (or otherwise passes it on) to spammers.
The surest way is still to post your address to usenet or websites for all to see, but with the advent of email virusses address books are now also at risk from harvesting.