>>Besides keeping patched and being vigilant, you can be proactive by disabling active content such as scripting and Adobe/Java as listed above, by using FireFox with the NoScript extension. It's always good to be retroactive too, by having good backups.
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>IMO a Linux VM running on Win Host is better - having a dedicated Boot USB-stick for separate machine is best.
>Currently my old 17' laptop has those tasks: running ubuntu with browser and nothing else
>a single core 2Gig machine is good enough although adblocker on some sites is more helpful than on current CPUs.
>I once tried to have separate installs with adobe or scripting allowed, but nowadays think a fully enabled install which
>can be scrapped and replaced by a fresh copy is best. Clearly YMMV depending on personal habits,
>but for me it is better to highten the fence as Murphy corollary says it will hit you exactly when safety is out of date.
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>regards
>
>thomas

Are your unning VFP on a Linux machine?