[vox] Sneaky Spyware

Micah J. Cowan micah at cowan.name
Mon Dec 5 14:50:55 PST 2005


On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:16:09PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote:
> On my WinXP laptop, I have the following:
> 
> Spybot S&D
> LavaSoft AdAware SE
> 
> I almost always browse the Web with Firefox 1.0.7 (1.5 now), except for the 
> very, very rare times when I come to a website that requires IE.  Even then, 
> I have IE (version 6) tightened up as much as I can, I run everything through 
> two up-to-date firewalls (my ZoneAlarm firewall, and my Linksys firewall).  I 
> never visit pornography, I never use any chat software other than GAIM, and I 
> never go to IRC chatrooms.  My installation of Thunderbird is very good at 
> eliminating spam and viruses.

What shareware packages have you voluntarily installed?

-Micah


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