>>Hi Mike.
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>>>A couple of questions -- what about web sites that want to stealthily load stuff onto your machine? Avoid them, or does the firewall catch them? And what firewall(s) do you use?
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>>First, I only go to Web sites I know (not to say they couldn't be infected, though). Second, it's the firewall's job to not let anything through. I used to use ZoneAlarm but since I moved to Vista, I've been relying on Windows Firewall. I realize that's a bit of a gamble {g} but thought I'd give it a shot and so far, not a single problem in almost two years.
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>>Interestingly, there's a discussion on this topic right now on the West Wind forum. Here's Rick's thoughts on this: http://www.west-wind.com/wwThreads/default.asp?Thread=2IQ0FCIQ4&MsgId=2IQ157VGY
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>>Doug
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>Thanks, Doug. And Happy Thanksgiving, even if I did miss yours.
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>I guess the tricky part of that recipe for me is recognizing dangerous web sites. I don't purposely seek out the problematic ones but the stealthy ones have fooled me before. Some part of me acknowledges that there are hackers out there who are smarter than me and want to use my machine with degrees of malice. (Degrees of Malice -- hmmm, could be the title of the next Bond movie). I don't want a full time job trying to ward them off.

I thought from now on the Harry Potter novels/films and JB films would just share the same names.=, eg "Harry Potter and the Quantum of Solace"