Brian Burger wrote:
Best way to stop getting spywa Stop using Internet Explorer.

Here's the last thing you should ever do with IE: go to www.opera.com and
download a much better browser.


or Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ or just about
anything except IE.

After going through the usual cycle of updating all the virus, adware,
spyware and malware protection and eradication programs and databases
about two years ago, I switched to Mac OS X for laptop and FreeBSD for
servers. Also, all open source applications (Firefox, Thunderbird,
etc.) and I disable HTML in email & newsgroup message display and run
ipfw (firewall) on all the machines.

For the two years since the switch the result has been 100% uptime and
zero virus and spyware problems. I keep a packet sniffer monitoring all
inbound and outbound TCP and UDP flows; nothing in or out that is not
supposed to be, period.

I feel for those in corporate environments that require MS. It sure
creates a lot of extra work and frustration.