Evening Dilwyn, > OK, British-Rail style "wrong type of security" then. :-)
We had the wrong snow today! > Ah, so NOT the fault of IE itself then! Yes and no. Windows is insecure. IE is insecure. Outlook [express or otherwise] is insecure. All are set up with defaults that allow your PC to be taken over without you knowing and used for nefarious purposes. Outlook defaults to HTML emails. These can introduce trojans etc from an email you haven't even read! Windows is insecure because anyone can, just about, do almost anything with all the files on the system. So if some virus or trojan gets in, your system is basically stuffed. Roy Wood wrote a long time ago about his "hatred" of the Linux/Unix system whereby there was a root user and a separate 'you' user and root was only ever used to maintain the system. A Linux virus cannot destroy a system (unless you manage to run everything as root!) only your own personal user account. (Contrary to Roy's blast that Linux doesn't have viruses because it isn't common. It doesn't have them (or many) because it is inherently secure.) > Back to square one, round and round the infinite loop. Hmmm. Infinite loop tends to imply that there is no get out! Make sure you are firewalled to buggery, everything closed down unless absolutely necessary, run a decent anti-virus (AVG or Komodo), get rid of IE and Outlook (Opera, Firefox and Thunderbird) and pay a visit to www.grc.com and check out all the things you can do to protect yourself and also, use "Shields Up!" to find out exactly how secure your Windows system is when on the Internet. Alternatively, OpenSuse 11.1 is excellent! (I know you don't have leanings in that direction just yet though!) Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
