See here for more information.

Thanks for the link to a good site. I read several of the articles on spyware and adware. Both huge pet peeves with me (to phrase it cleanly) I also read the article on how big buisness is finally starting to feel the effects of this piggyback crap overrunning their massive servers. No matter how up to date your software is, someone's trying to eat through it right now.

Yes, I just switched to Mozilla Firefox

I didn't have to do a thing, I've got Macs. :c)

Yeah, when I sell my house I am planning to ditch the PC and get a Mac... along with the new camera, new car, new house etc... :-P

What should I do if I have no idea how to do change my browser, and also I am on a network - would that affect anything? Anyway I don't think that I have been hacked yet...(touches nearest available wood)

we all know macs are cool but sadly Safari sucks a large part of the time so Opera is always a viable browser alternative

Firefox is great in OS X. They even made a cool theme in the osx style that ships with firefox for mac by default.

What's wrong with safari? I have found it to be about the same as explorer but I haven't been using it for long.

Safari is based on the konqueror (KDE) html rendering engine and is generally excepted to be a bit less robust than the Gecko rendering engine in mozilla (firefox).

safari will not access a lot of things other browsers can correctly - it will nearly always display pages correctly but a lot of functionality is unavailable even if you change the agent through Safari's debug menu. for instance - i have just set up a sharepoint calendar system for my clients to book my freelance time on the web and Safari only displays part of the data on the calendar and far more seriously jumbles the dates up on the calendar all by itself. hopefully a lot of these issues will be fixed in Tiger as it looks like a lot of work has been done to Safari for this release.

I have a question for anyone here who knows a lot about computers, My internet is cable, hooked up to a router, hooked up to a modem, Recently, My internet has been acting weird, I turn on my comp, open IE, and it works, if I close it, and open it again, It can not find the browser, I then have to shut down the computer, un plug everything, re plug it in, turn on the computer, and then it works, once, does this have anything to do with this IE problem?

With Windows, Opera is a very good choice to avoid IE. I use it since a few years, without problems.
Just a few websites doesn't work correctly. But the good sites work well.
Look here

CSheridan10 : Any number of things could be the problem, spyware or adware, a virus, just a corrupted file. Something's obviously wrong with IE. Since IE is so tightly coupled to the OS there's not much you can do about it short of re-installing the OS. Or you could just ignore it and use a different browser.

This is a common problem with windows users, something goes wrong with internet explorer (direct software errors), I am unable to fix the error, and internet explorer is to closely integrated with the newer versions of the operating system. (It cannot even be reinstalled in XP) 9 times out of 10 I end up having to create a backup partition and reinstall the OS - always fun.

CSheridan10: Try pcpitstop. Take the full tests on the left, and also the virus scan. If it doesn't find anything post your problem in the forum. I have used this site for years and when I had a problem with my PC shutting down unexpectedly, I got a solution within a few hours from the forums.

hey for mozilla firefox i know a way to speed it up 10 fold!!! i have done it myself and it works great!!!!
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1. Type "about:config" in the adress field.
2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".
3. Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".
4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"
5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0"

Taken from http://www.computerbb.org/about150.html
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by the way for step 5 the newer versions of firefox do not have this setting


i have a 4MBps cable connection and have noticed a great speed increase as a result from doing this!!!

I also recently re-compiled Firefox from CVS source. I set it to fully optimize for only Athlon 64 and I think it made a bit of difference. Though it's already so fast that I can live without the extra spped increase.