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December 10th 04, 12:57 AM

wrote:
I am finding that WindowsXP is allowing 20 cookies (plus other stuff ) a day
to attach to my computor which requires the use of another program to be
activated
every day to quarentine them. Thinking of going back to the Netscape browser
so as to
keep the computor cleen. Also interested in how much it would cost for
firewalls to bring
WindowsXP back to the protective level of Netscape 7.1.
Comments
(Yes I know it is not antenna related, unless you
need a computor to read antenna postings or use WindowsXP for antenna
software!)

Hey Art, here are my suggestions:

1. Get Zonealarm, Preferably version 4.xx

3. Get Netscape, or one of the flavors of its engine, such as Firefox.
Use this to get your mail, and read newsgroups too.

4. Start Internet Exploder one last time. When Zonealarm pops up and
asks if Exploder can have access to the net, then click "remember" and
deny it permission.

By denying IEEEEEEE! permission to ever access the web on your machine,
you will be doing humanity a great favor. Same for Outlook.

If you get the paid version of Zonealarm, you can have it delete all
cookies every day. You can also select ones you want to keep, if any.

5. Consider using a proxy server such as Proxomitron,(freeware)
especially if you are on Cable, or DSL.

6. Always change the updates feature of your computer so that you
manually do the updates. If you automatically update, you will find that
Microsoft may make your computer more secure by making it less
operative! 8^)

Hope this helps!

- Mike KB3EIA -