On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:13:22 -0800, you wrote: >On Monday 29 September 2008, Arild Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent a >missive stating: >> ahmet erkan wrote: >> > BTW : Anita like me might be apprehensive about joining the "facebook" >> > crowd. There was a lot of bad publicity about it's data security. Have >> > you had any bad experiences? You seem to recommend it, how long have >> > you been registered to "facebook" whatever it is? I have learned not >> > to say anything negative or positive about things I don't know.
I got a myspace account when I took my grandson to Ireland in June 2007. I did that because I could put pictures of him/us onto my page easily and fairly quickly so his parents and sister could see what we were doing. The photos of the children (ages 11-15) were all restricted to 'friends'. I go to that page periodically do see what some of my grandchildren who also have accounts are doing. I only have 6 friends - my two grandsons (one of whom I took to the Med this spring), my granddaughter (the one for the next trip), the parents of the grandchildren, and one man who was on the Ireland trip with us. Any communication other than pictures is done by email text file. > >Couple of things to do: >1) Do NOT use Internet Explorer. Install Firefox (www.mozilla.com) and browse >with that. Install the following extensions: > Adblock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10 > FlashBlock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 >Between Firefox and these two extensions you will cut out 90%+ of malware and >cross-site scripting attacks off the bat. Phishing scams of course are still >an issue. Both of these extensions have whitelists for sites that you want to >see Flash on, etc... and are very easy to use. > I do have Firefox and use it for most applications, and I do have those two extensions on it. Although generally I don't bother with sites that I have to have Flash. I run IE only for Ancestry because Firefox freezes when I try to access that website, although I confess I only have IE 6.0. I don't have anything fancy on it because I don't use it much. There are still sites that don't display in Firefox. I confess that I do not update Windows. I get my email through Forte Agent which I've been using for a long time - text based. I only use OE in one instance - I have Agent set not to download more than 350 lines of text. If someone sends me an exe file or something like a virus or photo (like of a grandchild), it won't unload the whole thing and I get a bunch of gibberish. If I see from the text that it is a grandchild photo, I go to OE and download it. If it is anything else that won't load because it is too big, I just delete it when I have access to the internet. Bob is still anti MS and pro CPM - he thinks MS programs are excessively large and bloated. He's still using an old Epsom computer that is CPM based. Of course you can't do navigation on it, but in many ways it is more advanced that the MS computers that we have not. >That's about it. If you absolutely positively must run IE, then make sure it's >IE 7 and keep it patched. Do NOT install 'toolbars', "Smiley apps" and all >sorts of "cute" toolbars which do nothing except box down IE, install spyware >/ adware crap and crash your browser and/or computer. Of course, keep your >Windows patched via windows update and > >Personally, I would say get a Mac, pay for the support and they will take care >of you. The in-store Help Desk guys are awesome and their phone support is >decent. If 95% of what you do is email, surf the web and some basic photo >editing, internet chatting (AIM, ICQ, etc...) you will be much better off vs. >Windows. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
