All the more important that you use Firefox with adblock and flashblock or at the very least, run a pop-up blocking software and have adware/spyware removal tools available.
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From: Oren Beck Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:59 PM To: KCLUG (E-mail) Subject: Could this have been prevented with Linux? OR common sense? http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070106/NEWS0 1/701060312/1002/NEWS17 Forgive the long link- but this is NOT a story that should go by uncommented. For if we do so, the "Who's next?" may be any innocent caught unaware. Read the story and be very afraid..
Yet another reason I like the execution paradigm on the Mac. In WindBlowz, you can close any individual window, but the application continues -- at least to the uninitiated, each window has to be closed separately. In MacOS (classic and current), you can quit the application and all windows close together.
--Don Ellis (trying a new mail client)
[PS - of course turning on popup blocking in the web browser is almost always helpful (except when necessary to run a web application)]
On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
All the more important that you use Firefox with adblock and flashblock or at the very least, run a pop-up blocking software and have adware/spyware removal tools available.
From: Oren Beck Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:59 PM To: KCLUG (E-mail) Subject: Could this have been prevented with Linux? OR common sense?
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070106/ NEWS01/701060312/1002/NEWS17
Forgive the long link- but this is NOT a story that should go by uncommented. For if we do so, the "Who's next?" may be any innocent caught unaware. Read the story and be very afraid.. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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