IE security issues?

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Such as? I've never had a problem. I tried Firefox, but the bootup
loading is slow as shit.
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IE has the advantage of running in background, while Firefox (and all other
stand alone browsers) have to completely boot each time. So, boot it at
startup and leave it up.

I recently had to use IE 6 for awhile, and I honestly felt as if I was
using the browsing equivalent of a stone knife. Such a clunky, hard to get
along with, not to mention SLOW device. Firefox may load up slower but it
browses way faster than IE on the same machine. I couldn't imagine going
back to IE after using Firefox, nor trying to make it easier to get along
with by using a shell (all the while preserving it's inherent security
flaws.) But, to each his own.
 
Yes, easily. For example, AVG can only find a virus it already knows
about,

Is that really so? Heh.. Freeware antiviruses - is a nonsense. Find
real antivirus with heuristic analyser. May be, spend some money.

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AVG uses heuristic analysis. The previous poster was wrong about AVG
only being able to find viruses it already knew about.
 
Harmer scribebat:
Is that really so? Heh.. Freeware antiviruses - is a nonsense. Find
real antivirus with heuristic analyser. May be, spend some money.
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Despite the fact that, except for ClamAV, all virus scanner are just "lite"
versions of commercial scanners (thus having a heuristic analysis), a
heuristic analyser needs "patterns" as well. These pattern are different
from normal virus signatures but they are there. Or do you think heuristic
works by divination?

In case heuristics truly detected all viruses there would be no need for
virus signatures and virus database updates any more. Heuristics securely
detect new variants of known viruses but still fails to find all new virus
families.
 
Is that really so? Heh.. Freeware antiviruses - is a nonsense. Find
An AV program would be the last thing I would spend money on. Seriously, if
you pratice safe computing and use a little common sense, an AV is nothing
more than a safety net. Yes, AVG has saved me twice in the past 2 years,
but both times, I knew I was in dangerous waters and was fully aware that I
might have a problem. Both were files that were labeled as something else,
but were really viruses. AVG caught them the minute they finished
downoading.
 
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