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I agree too. With any browser or operating system you need to keep up with
the security patches. Keep your spam and virus checker up to date and make sure your firewall/router is configured correctly. Most isp providers now add an extra level of protection on their servers too, but that is not an excuse for letting your software get behind the hackers. :-) No matter which you use. Some of the off brands I have seen named do offer a bit more flexibility than outlook express (and I have tried a few) but I guess I can't argue if somebody wants to tell me they are safer for some reason. Discussing Browser/operating systems is a bit like discussing politics and religion. Or viruses and whether ladyslippers are real orchids. It can get touchy. I am a live-and-let-live person in a do-as-I-say world. I am using outlook 6. something as my email program and it connects to an old outlookexpress as the news reader. Don't have any problems. Most of my spam and virus control is on my server/domain and not on my personal computer behind the firewall. By the time something gets to my computer it has been picked at several times already. I had switched to giganews, leaving behind my adelphia news servers because they were crappy. Then adelphia outsourced it's news servers to giganews and saved me 9 or 10 dollars a month. They do control a lot of the spam and I never see pictures posted to the text newsgroups. Also they have the longest retention rate for binary (Abpo) newsgroups, like 45 days. I say, KB, figure out how to configure your current newsreader to use giganews and see how it works out before making too many changes. "wendy7" wrote in message news:wRSDd.15973$yW5.9549@fed1read02... I am with you Ray, albeit, I have a computer guru that helps me. He did make Mozilla Firefox my default browser but can still use IE. I use Outlook Express for reading my news groups. I personally feel that a lot of problems users have is due to the fact that their computers are not set up correctly. -- Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply Ray wrote: Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but what's wrong with IE and OE? IE has a popup blocker that's quite effective, and I have all sorts of mail rules set up that block the vast majority of spam in OE. Am I missing something THAT significantly different? Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . "dusty" wrote in message ... "K Barrett" wrote in oups.com: Hi all, OK, this is on topic only because we're all reading this group on computers, so I have a computer question. My ISP changed to Giganews, making access to Usenet difficult. Therefore I'm taking this opportunity to research changing from Outlook Express to some other news reader. I'm also taking this opportunity to finally stop using Internet Explorer as a browser. Something I intended to do 4-5 yrs ago, heh. I'm considering Mozilla/Firefox and Agent. (Unless Mozilla has its own newsreader... hadn't thought of that) Any input as to ease of use or frequency of attacks by popups/worms/viruses etc with these alternate programs? Like would they be more/less open to attack? I find I have gotten stuck in my ways and only understand programs of the 1995-1998 vintage, so I'm anticipating a steep learning curve, as well as frustration and hair pulling when I make this switch. Its hell getting old. K Barrett I hated OE from day one and never could get it to work right or be as secure as I like. I use Xnews as a news group reader it's freeware and easy to use. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/xnews.html I've heard that Giganews is supposed to be a great sevice but I've never tried it. If you want a new NNTP client (Newsgroups) I use the totally uncensored Tera News the low cost package is a one time fee of $3.95 which allows you to download 50 meg a day. the retention varies from 3 to 8 days. The also have a ton of other packages here. note the $3.95 packages is at the bottom of the selections. https://secure.usenetbilling.com/new...?referredby=10 89565316&action=Create+New+Account&vendor=teranews hope this helps |
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