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My grocery store has Tab in twelve-packs. I actually drank 'em for a while, they're not bad. I seem to recall the video guys at Workcamp getting a picture of me drinking one. I must get a copy of that video some time...
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We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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quote:I do the same thing he does (obsessively), but I am open to change if you or any other anti-IE'er can convince me that despite all those measures I am doomed to lose something important before Longhorn is out.
Download "jpegcompoc.zip", then open the JPG file it contains in IE. Beware that I don't actually know what the proof of concept does. I'd imagine it's not malicious. In any case, you might want to consider not actually doing it.
No firewall, no anti-virus suite, nothing can protect you from that if you aren't patched. Even then, it takes awareness of the problem and/or automatic updates being installed either with or without your knowledge.
This is hardly the first major IE problem, and will certainly not be the last. IE is a walking security hole, and installing twenty levels of web filtering just so you can use IE is insanity to me.
The choice is obvious. Stop using IE, and stop using products that use IE.
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I don't think I am going to test my luck purposely downloading a security risk. However, Charles, I trust your knowledge on IT matters, so I will go with Firefox until Longhorn makes its way out. I'm not nuts about the look of the interface, but safety first. (Does anyone know of a IE skin for Firefox?) Thanks for answering my question.
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-------------------- "Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the Tao to survivial or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed."
"...attaining one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the pinnacle of excellence. Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence."
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 6th century B.C.E.
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Lee: if you right-click on the toolbars, you can find History in the customize menu. (That worried me for a second too when I didn't see it at first.)
-------------------- "Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the Tao to survivial or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed."
"...attaining one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the pinnacle of excellence. Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence."
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 6th century B.C.E.
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Ah. I still have a lot to play around with, it seems. Now if only the whole browser didn't freeze for about 2 seconds every time I save an image. . .
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Of course, it's only about 2 6-packs at a time. No telling how old they are... 
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