Kids and computers

[Vince]

My kids are still toddlers, so I guess I have to just look forward to all this fun.

I've read that a big way of keeping parasite software off your computer is to turn off ActiveX in Internet Explorer. I changed a bunch of settings in both IE and Firefox to kill third-party cookies and parasites and popups. IE in XP finally has a feature for eliminating popups, but Firefox is still the more security-conscious browser.



Great advice. Vince, by "Mozilla" do you mean the full suite, or just Firefox?

I installed the full suite.

 

[Christy]

Was it ?

Yeah. But it's no biggie, we'll get it all cleaned up. No need to smack him around.

 

[Otter]

I installed the full suite.

Food for thought....and I use Firefox

 

[Tonio]

Food for thought....and I use Firefox

Thanks, Otter. I agree that using Firefox just because you don't like Microsoft is a poor reason to switch. And of course, as more people use the browser, security vulnerabilities will become more apparent.

I'd like to know if Symantec's list of vulnerabilities came with rankings for each item. IE's main vulnerability seems to be that the code is entwined with Windows in a way that Firefox code isn't. That is the main reason I switched to Firefox. As Firefox becomes more popular, I hope the Mozilla folks will be diligent in posting security fixes.