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RE: Viruses
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Originally posted by buzz
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Originally posted by TheGeek
Firefox (or opera for that matter) should come standard with windows in stead of IE, That would filter out a lot of the spyware and virusses...
The new ie (ie 7) is supposed to be better, the ie blocker that came with sp2 (i think) was rly good...firefox and opera do have there faults. Mircosoft takes longer to release new versions because alot of people will use them... opera 8, ie only at 6


Version numbers don't mean anything when comparing to another program. You just can't compare 2 different program's version numbers. IE could have from
1 -> 1.5 -> 2 -> 2.5 and so on.
While Opera went
1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 and so on.

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Originally posted by TheGeek
Firefox (or opera for that matter) should come standard with windows in stead of IE, That would filter out a lot of the spyware and virusses...

In doing so, more exploits would just be found for Firefox/Opera and spyware/other 3rd party addons would just move to them.

Also, people feel more comfortable using the same manufacturer, either that, or they just don't know that alternatives to IE exist.

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Originally posted by Shawnz
They could use Firefox and VNC and etc with windows skins and modified to show Microsoft's name, it would save them money and employees aswell

And then be sued for stealing?
05-09-2005 10:24 PM
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Viruses - by Veggie on 05-09-2005 at 06:56 PM
RE: Viruses - by albert on 05-09-2005 at 06:58 PM
RE: Viruses - by absorbation on 05-09-2005 at 07:47 PM
RE: Viruses - by mwe99 on 05-09-2005 at 07:57 PM
RE: Viruses - by Anubis on 05-09-2005 at 08:15 PM
RE: Viruses - by TheGeek on 05-09-2005 at 08:22 PM
RE: Viruses - by lizard.boy on 05-09-2005 at 08:39 PM
RE: Viruses - by ShawnZ on 05-09-2005 at 08:48 PM
RE: Viruses - by M73A on 05-09-2005 at 08:49 PM
RE: Viruses - by buzz on 05-09-2005 at 08:53 PM
RE: RE: Viruses - by Veggie on 05-09-2005 at 09:59 PM
RE: Viruses - by buzz on 05-09-2005 at 09:00 PM
RE: Viruses - by segosa on 05-09-2005 at 09:54 PM
RE: Viruses - by Zephyr on 05-09-2005 at 10:15 PM
RE: Viruses - by ddunk on 05-09-2005 at 10:24 PM
RE: Viruses - by Chris4 on 05-09-2005 at 11:16 PM
RE: Viruses - by TylerG on 05-09-2005 at 11:23 PM
RE: Viruses - by Nathan on 05-10-2005 at 04:37 PM
RE: Viruses - by Dempsey on 05-10-2005 at 04:46 PM
RE: Viruses - by Nathan on 05-10-2005 at 04:50 PM
RE: Viruses - by saralk on 05-10-2005 at 05:15 PM
RE: Viruses - by mwe99 on 05-10-2005 at 05:24 PM
RE: RE: Viruses - by TheGeek on 05-10-2005 at 06:53 PM


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