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* ProteanThread *
http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/
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ActiveX was meant to make it easy to add the latest interactive
multimedia and other features to sites, but instead it's become a tool
for sneaking spyware onto unsuspecting PCs. That's why the U.S.
Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a partnership between the tech
industry and Homeland Security, recently took the unusual step of
advising people to consider switching browsers.
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<SNIP>
ActiveX was meant to make it easy to add the latest interactive
multimedia and other features to sites, but instead it's become a tool
for sneaking spyware onto unsuspecting PCs. That's why the U.S.
Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a partnership between the tech
industry and Homeland Security, recently took the unusual step of
advising people to consider switching browsers.
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