>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>The Youtube page now tells me that they will soon stop supporting my browser (IE 6.0). The choices are (according to youtube page):
>>>Google Chrome
>>>Firefox 3.6
>>>IE 8
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>>Anything but IE. Even with IE8 there still are things which aren't w3c standard, some stylesheets which work perfectly in all other browsers fail to render in IE etc etc.
>>
>>I uninstalled Chrome because it kept calling home. It's supposedly checking for updates and installing them without asking - not when I click anything. Given that Google made its business case on collecting all sorts of data about pretty much anything imaginable, I decided to stay unimaginable. Specially that they promised to tame the behavior a year ago, and it still isn't done. Shoo.
>
>I also don't like when programs I use trying to connect to their home servers without asking me first. Thank you.

SyGate is the last free version of the great firewall, before it was remanufactured into ZoneAlarm. Can still be downloaded from various places , and works nice and simple: asks you about pretty much anything that tries to connect, incoming or outgoing. You decide to allow/disallow it once or permanently.

Can download it from download.com - do not try simtel.net (it's a fake link, only gives you ads but the download is a fake - adware), nor tucows.com (just ads but no file to download). If you feel like reading the whole two-day mess, how I learned this: Windozaster recovery log.

(hint: it checks whether you tried to register, but not whether you succeeded - which you can't, the website is defunct)