That makes for a lot of work to read e-mail. I sometimes use the Earthlink web mail via the browser, but only when I can't get my notebook to attach to a client's network for Internet access. Overall, the screening at the ISP level and the screening from the AV software keeps me safe (plus I don't open e-mails or their attachments unless I know beforehand what it is and I don't surf indiscriminately on the web).
NS 8 - well I should have thought of Netscape, but they're not on the radar as much anymore.
>I may be wrong - I may be mis labeling Web Dav - I used it to mean a "browser" connection for incomming mail - as opposed to a desktop mail client like Eudora or Outlook.
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>NS - 8 - NetScape 8. IE and Firefox modes. Site specific security maintence. It's not IE!:-)
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>When you have time you may want to open your task manager and google that names of the processes that are running - a bunch of pages will suggest a Virus Scan - but read thoroughly - everybody wants to get on your desktop.
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>If you can - chuck XP SP2 - CHuck your IE (keep a copy just in case - some of the DHTML features of IE - though not W3C - are pretty cool. Yurn off your system restore - and screen your incoming mail through you "browser" before you use Outlook or Eudora.
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>>Hey, thanks, but you'll have to tell me what a Web Dav browser client is and what NS 8 is (Norton something-or-other?). I do sometimes turn off autoupdates for some products, when they make it something you can find. And I try to keep things out of my system tray - it seems that every product out there thinks it needs to install something in your system tray and/or put itself in the Quick Launch area.
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>>Russell
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>>>If you screen your mail through a Web Dav browser client - before you download it into your desktop client - it will help.
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>>>Since I switched to NS 8 - other than the M$ pushed "ad-clicks" - I don't pick them up. Sometimes I think AV is part of the problem.
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>>>The system restore is another problem. Common sense and using something other than outlook or IE can make a big difference.
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>>>Turn off your auto updates and auto schedulers too. Everybody wants a piece of your desktop - many of the updates we install do nothing (remember rootkit) but help them and hurt you.
