RH.Campbell said:
Mike, I've switched to Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox for internet access
after a very bad experience. In spite of all the firewalls, anti-virus
software and every other preventative measure, a couple of Trojans got on my
system and my computer became part of a denial of service attack on Revenue
Canada and Canada Post. I got a notice from Abuse at Rogers.com, who also
assisted in the removal process. I finally got rid of them, but not without
crashing Windows and all the hassle inherent in getting things back up...
It's an ugly internet world out there. Do yourself a favour and get a more
secure browser than what Microsoft has to offer. Take the advice from a guy
that got hit....
RHC
I could be wrong about this Robert but usually trojans like that come from
you as the user clicking on things they don't really know anything about.
That "thing" can range from a "helper" program to something like p2p
software like Kazaa. The program appears inoccent enough but isn't The best
defense for that is Adaware
IE is vulnerable because it is the most commonly used although I'm sure if
Firefox becomes as popular it too will have the same problems in fact I
recall one being found last week, no program is secure and Firefox has its
share of holes that haven't been discovered yet.
I tried both Thunderbird and Firefox last month and while they were nice i
found them lacking in one part or another compared to IE and Outlook.
Firefox didn't work with my Adsubtract popup ad blocker (the plugins
available for it didn't do the job either) and Thunderbird is shitty with
newsgroups (imho)