Come on Aaron, quit trying to be cute.
*You* are the one trying to be cute. I'm just getting annoyed with you
complaining all the time about me and trying to peg me into a anti-MS
person, which I'm definitely not.
In an earlier thread, you said "Don't use IE as your primary browser".
I recommend you read the whole post again. Despite my last post, you
still are hung up on a single sentence ,drawn out of context.
The question was not about IE, it was about Spybot.
This is insane.
The question ventured from spybot to preventing spyware. And it was
natural to point out that using non-IE browsers is a way of preventing
spyware. Or do I need your permission to point that out?
Seems to me you are all for free speech when you want to promote myie2,
but when I promote Firefox in a perfectly reasonable way, I'm a crusader?
You know you are a crusader.
You know you are a crusader for myie2. We have gone over this a million
times.
Someone asks for a simple popup blocker, you recommend myie2, which is
way more than what is asked for.
Someone asks for a *secure* eraser to delete IE tracks , you recommend
myie2, despite the fact that when asked you don't know if it does secure
deletion. And then start ranting about the fact why someone would need
such security,since you evidently didn't.
Search this newsgroup for any thread which mentions myie2,browser
alternatives, your name is on everyone of them.
Sounds to me it's like pot calling the kettle black.
Come on Bob, quit trying to act cute. I say something like either use
Firefox to avoid spyware or use IE and other software for protection, a
perfectly reasonable statement and you jump in with strong emotional
words like "letting the bastards win".
Crusader? I strongly recommend, you reflect on your own actions before
pointing your finger at others.
Just annoyed is all. It's not that important to me.
Well now I'm annoyed! If you are so afraid of a response from me, then
killfile me now and be done with it.
"Wrong facts". Thanks! I'll add that to my oxymoron collection.
Seriously, the essence of what some trojans do and what certain
spyware does are identical. Just because the goals of the trojan and
the spyware are different does not change the facts.
Bob, just admit you have no idea what you are talking about. The *goals*
of trojans (you mean the people using it right?) has nothing to do with
what a definition of a trojan is. Your phrase "entering the domain of
trojans" is meaningless at best and nonsense at worse, since there is "no
domain" that a trojan occupies.
In fact, it's arguable that *some* spyware are trojans and vice-versa, a
backdoor program that is distributed as a free game is a trojan to trick
users into running them . It certainly allows you to be spied on , so it
is spyware too.
Attacking firewalls, scanner programs, certainly doesn't make it a
trojan. How many worms and viruses do you know try to shut down firewalls
and antiviruses? Does that suddenly, make people want to call them
trojans?
You seem to have this idea that any malware that attacks or disables
other software is a trojan, I hate to break it to you, but that's not the
case.
That's not the case with me. I have used...EVERYTHING!
Well, you might have used everything, but you don't know if Myie2 does a
secure deletion of browser tracks
Bob
Remove "kins" from address to reply.
Aaron (my email is not munged!)
